Football finance expert Kieran Maguire has said that he believes the new Premier League TV deals could push the Newcastle takeover over the line soon.
Fans were hoping to see Mike Ashley relinquish his position as club owner ahead of 2018, but the retail magnate walked away from negotiations with Amanda Stavely and her company PCP Capital Partners after growing impatient with their insistence on bidding below his asking price.
Maguire, a Liverpool University accounting teacher, knows persons close who were involved in the deal, per the Chronicle, and reckons that things could be sewn up sooner rather than later due to the league's TV rights deals, set to be announced in March.