Sky Sports football put Amanda Staveley back in the spotlight as she said she is working with Jamie Reuben again while looking to buy another football club. She said she wants to be buying and investing into a club again very soon, with a new global fund now central to that plan.
Staveley said her main focus is the raising of a new sports and media fund and investing that money. She added: "It’s a global fund. We’ve got some fantastic general partners. We’ve got the Reuben Brothers with us again which is really exciting."
Newcastle United return path
The move pulls her back toward the ownership market after her spell at Newcastle United. Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi became co-owners of Newcastle in October 2021, then left in the summer of 2024 after PIF bought out their shares.
Jamie Reuben remains on the Newcastle board, which keeps one of the original links from that takeover in place. Staveley said, "We’re very proud of the work we did with PIF that we did with Newcastle and we’re trying to kind of replicate that journey."
Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United
Her target list is already broad. Staveley said, "We've looked at a lot of clubs including Tottenham, but we are looking at clubs around the Premier League and the UK, Europe and you know we're hoping and we really want to be buying and going in and investing into a club again very soon hopefully."
She also did not rule out West Ham. That leaves a live split in the market: Tottenham Hotspur has been named as one club under review, while West Ham United stays in play rather than being dismissed.
Staveley and Ghodoussi
Staveley said the strategy is to find opportunistic assets that can be bought well, invested in well and eventually exited. She also described football ownership as hard work, saying it is "exhausting" and that the buying, investment and selling pieces all have to be right.
For now, the useful takeaway is simple: she is not sitting still after Newcastle United. She is working with Jamie Reuben again, PCP and the Reuben Brothers are back in the same frame, and the next club move appears to be a matter of selection rather than intent.
