Posts tagged: Newcastle United

Saudi Arabians said to be in talks to buy Newcastle United for £340 million, reveals the WSJ

Saturday, 25 January 2020, 1:49 pm

Scribblers at the venerable Wall Street Journal just landed a corker of a scoop about Mike Ashley's football (soccer) club.

According to the excellent newspaper, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is backing another tilt at Newcastle United, the Premier League football club owned by the boss of Sports Direct...

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Is Fosun about to do a Mike Ashley with Thomas Cook?

Tuesday, 23 April 2019, 6:47 pm

The collapse of Debenhams wasn't exactly Mike Ashley's finest hour.

The owner of Newcastle United Football Club lost £150 million on the 29.9pc equity stake he built over several years after being outmanouvered by the credit funds and the company ahead of a financial restructuring.

Now, though, it would appear Fosun - the Chinese conglomerate led by Guo Guangchang, dubbed China's Warren Buffett - is following a similar path to maverick Mike...

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The leaving party, the Premier League football club and the £220 million takeover bid...

Tuesday, 17 October 2017, 11:42 pm

Hat tip to Russell Lynch. Betaville stumbled across the hack's cracking scoop in today's Evening Standard business section about a Turkish tycoon's £220 million potential bid for Newcastle United Football Club on the way to, ironically, a leaving party for a hackette that's about to join the great newspaper.

Here is a link to Lynch's piece in the Evening Standard:..

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