Amanda Staveley football investment talk turned to West Ham United after she refused to rule out a move when asked directly in Rome. She smiled and said: “Maybe. You don’t know.”
Staveley keeps West Ham open
That answer mattered because Staveley did not close the door on a club that is already in flux. West Ham’s ownership is changing, and any fresh interest would land in the middle of a wider reshuffle around control and cash.
She also widened the frame beyond one club. “We’ve looked at a lot of clubs, including Tottenham, but we are looking at clubs around the Premier League and the UK, Europe. […] We really want to be buying, going in and investing into a club again very soon,” she said.
Rome and FII Priority Europe
The comments came as Staveley spoke to Spear’s in Rome at FII Priority Europe. She has a clear football investment track record: in 2008 she played a strategic role in Sheikh Mansour’s takeover of Manchester City, and in 2021 she and the Reuben Brothers each took a 10 per cent stake in Newcastle United while PIF took 80 per cent.
She has also been open before about Tottenham Hotspur, and PCP Capital was involved in an expression of interest in Tottenham Hotspur last year. That history makes her West Ham answer more than a casual remark; it fits a pattern of active interest in clubs that fit a specific investment profile.
West Ham’s ownership shift
West Ham is already moving through a structural change. David Sullivan stepped down as joint chair and director after being made aware of a joint Times and Panorama investigation into historic allegations about his conduct, while Daniel Křetínský is set to replace him as the club’s largest shareholder after agreeing to buy an additional stake from the Gold family.
Křetínský has agreed to buy some of Vanessa Gold’s shareholding, taking his own stake from 27 per cent to 43 per cent. Gold and Křetínský have previously said they will vote jointly on key matters and support the strategy targeting an immediate return to the Premier League.
West Ham also made a loss of more than £100 million last year, which is why any outside capital talk cuts straight to the point. Staveley did not confirm a West Ham bid, but she did not shut it down either, and that leaves the club’s next ownership move as the issue to watch.
