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Lee Ryder

The telling line from Amanda Staveley that confirms wealthy backers still keen on Newcastle takeover

Amanda Staveley has insisted the Middle East consortium's wealthiest backers are still very much focused on the proposed Newcastle United takeover.

Suggestions that Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund had walked away from the table have been rife this year with big links to a takeover at Inter Milan and McLaren's F1 team.

But the main investors in the agreed £340million package with Mike Ashley in PIF are still waiting in the wings to buy the club.

Staveley, speaking to Talksport, said: "We are all very passionate about Newcastle - all the consortium members are (still here).

"I made that very clear in my last two interviews last week and the week before.

"I've made it clear.

"We've made our position clear."

Staveley's interview with Simon Jordan and Jim White went viral yesterday as protestors from Tyneside headed to London to make a demonstration against the government and the Premier League.

Organisers of the protest say that Staveley "set the perfect tone" and maximised their publicity on the day.

Indeed, Newcastle were the lead story for much of the afternoon and evening on Talksport.

Staveley also underlined that the Premier League also have the power to make the arbitration process clear for the public and it doesn't have to come down to a vote between the clubs.

She added: "We've asked the Premier League to resolve it and they can have a vote on this.

"They can have a vote on providing transparency but what I think you will find....the Premier League offered this arbitration process. "They didn't say to all the other clubs: 'We want to have this process. Is this OK?'

"They had to have the ability to go out and do this.

"The Premier League have a right to vote this and that's what we might do.

"That's what we ask to do but there is a board.

"The Premier League is run by a board and that board is allowed to make decisions about how these processes run."

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