on this link here.The PIF wanted to buy an 80 per cent stake in the Magpies, with Staveley's PCP Partners and the Reuben brothers taking 10 per cent each.But Premier League bosses said they could not approve the deal on piracy grounds - after concluding the Saudi state and PIF were not separate legal entities.Last month the takeover looked dead and buried when Masters revealed that Saudi Arabia refused to take these concerns to a tribunal..
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