Newcastle United co-chairman Amanda Staveley has expressed sadness at Roman Abramovich having his ownership of Chelsea "taken away".
Staveley has been front and centre of Newcastle's takeover by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) in October of last year, taking a 10 per cent stake in the firm and operating as co-chairman of the club along with her husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi.
Staveley, who had acted as an advisor to Manchester City's 2008 takeover by Abu Dhabi’s Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, and had wanted to engineer an acquisition of Liverpool that same year, as well as aiding Chinese interest in the club in 2015, has been a lightning rod for criticism of PIF's involvement at Newcastle.
