Amanda Staveley reveals hopes of returning to football in the near future amid links to Tottenham – and opens up on search for new opportunities after leaving Newcastle

Amanda Staveley has admitted she hopes to return to football ‘in the not too distant future’ amid links to a potential investment at Tottenham. 

Staveley departed her role as a director at Newcastle United in the summer nearly three years after she helped push through Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund’s £305million takeover of the club alongside her husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi.

Although the exit from Newcastle left her ‘devastated’, Staveley has actively sought a return to football.

The rumour mill was sparked into overdrive when she was seen at Tottenham’s stadium for the 3-1 win over Brentford in September.

Now, she’s addressed the links to the north London club and admitted that she’s ‘looking at a number of investment opportunities’. 

Speaking at Bloomberg’s ‘Women, Money & Power’ event, Staveley said: ‘First of all, I think all we can do is thank the amazing Newcastle community and the founders for all the support that we had and and continue to get.

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‘It’s so hard to move on from a club that’s amazing. We could never move on from Newcastle and we never will. But yes, we’re looking at a number of investment operations.

‘We can’t say too much at the moment because of you know, rules around it. But we will be able to talk about it, hopefully in the not too distant future.’ 

The 51-year-old helped push through Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund’s £305million takeover of Newcastle in October 2021, with the help of husband Ghodoussi.

The pair handled the day-to-day running of the Premier League club during that time with Staveley maintaining a ten per cent stake.

She left Newcastle in July this year after overseeing a resurgence in the side’s fortunes which featured stars such as Bruno Guimaraes arriving at St James’s Park. The financier later admitted she was ‘devastated’ following her exit.

Previous reports claimed Staveley lined up buying a stake in Tottenham alongside some financial backers with deep pockets, with the club seeking fresh investment as one-time majority stakeholder Joe Lewis’ influence wanes.

Staveley and Ghodoussi are expected to buy up some of Lewis’s shares which are now held in a family trust.

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In September, Staveley’s appearance at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, as a guest of Spurs chairman Daniel Levy, accelerated rumours that she was setting up a ‘fresh’ consortium of investors and ‘hoped to take an initial stake in Spurs’. 

Forbes state that Spurs are currently valued at around £2.42billion ($3.2bn). Should Staveley wish to purchase a 25 per cent stake in the club it would cost approximately £605m. The 51-year-old has reportedly already raised £500m through her investment fund PCP Capital Partners.

The outlet adds that the investors will subsequently look to increase their stake in the north London outfit.

Tottenham were purchased by ENIC Group (English National Investment Company), in 2001, with Joe Lewis’s family trust becoming the club’s new majority owners.