Talk that Amanda Staveley is ready to make a return to the Premier League has increased after her husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi was on a VIP guest list at the North London derby last weekend.
Reports in the Sun on Sunday suggest the pair have been part of investment talks at Tottenham Hotspur. A potential cash injection could be in the pipeline with Staveley understood to be assembling financial backing from the Middle East.
There have been reports of Spurs making a percentage stake in the club available with Staveley keen to return to the top-flight table after her Newcastle United exit.
Staveley’s Apollo Belvedere Services was liquidated by a London judge earlier this month. It was the company formerly known as PCP Capital Partners - who were on the books of the original consortium at Newcastle when the Saudi-backed takeover was pushed through and they helped broker the deal to end Mike Ashley's 14-year tenure on Tyneside.
Greek shipping magnate Victor Restis claimed that he was owed £10m from a loan made to Staveley's ventures in 2008. The Financial Times report: "Staveley was required to pay the tycoon about £3.5m after she lost a High Court bid in March to block a statutory demand — a formal ultimatum for payment of a debt — that Restis served on the British financier last year."
Staveley left Newcastle in July after three years on the board after a shake up at St James' Park. She said then: "I am devastated. It’s such a wonderful club, so it feels very bittersweet. It has become part of my DNA, something you love so much and don’t want to let go. It’s very painful."