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Like what you see? Amanda Staveley meets and greets Newcastle players after helping seal £305m Saudi-takeover... as the club's new owners prepare to sack Steve Bruce this week

Daily Mail | October 11, 2021

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Newcastle United's players and staff have been introduced to part of the club's new ownership group following their £305million takeover last week.

Amanda Staveley and her husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi were filmed greeting members of the Magpies squad as they received a tour of the club's Darsley Park training ground on Monday.

Staveley, the PCP Capital Partners chief executive who has driven the takeover deal and is on the club’s new board, owns 10 per cent of the club's shares with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) owning 80 per cent.

Amanda Staveley (centre) and Mehrdad Ghodoussi (left) met the Newcastle players on Monday
Staveley, who owns 10 per cent of the club, greeted the first-team stars in the dining room
Goalkeeper Karl Darlow was among the players to greet part of the club's new ownership
Staveley and Ghodoussi were filmed chatting with Argentine defender Federico Fernandez

ud83cudfa5 Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi introduce themselves at the #NUFC training ground.

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