Zapping Goal! Football club OM: top 10 most capped players in history
Newcastle having formalized Thursday its takeover by the investment fund PCP Capital Partners (owned by the Saudi Arabian public fund led by Crown Prince Mohammed ben Salman), the chances of seeing OM bought by Prince Al-Walid ben Talal Al Saoud are, de facto, thinner.
Indeed, it is difficult to see how the Saudi businessman would go against the interests of the heir to the crown by disembarking in Marseille to build a competitor there … Unless having the approval of the prince ben Salmane with a possible failure of PCP Capital Partners at the Magpies? While everything seemed to be tied up, the second part of the script slowly begins to be written in England.
Premier League clubs don’t want Saudis
According to The Guardian, the other Premier League clubs have requested an emergency meeting to understand why the authorities have validated the sale of Newcastle to Saudi Arabia. In March 2020, while Prince Ben Salman was already preparing to seize the North of England club, a sling of several clubs, various personalities from Great Britain as well as representatives of associations for the defense of human rights had derailed the deal and pushed the Saudis back. According to the British media, the clubs would like to know what has changed in the past 18 months. From there to imagine that an approved redemption is called into question?
English clubs don’t want Saudi Arabia in Newcastle
If Newcastle went under the Saudi flag last Thursday, the response is organized in the Premier League. Several clubs have requested an emergency meeting to try to understand this sale … And why not derail it?