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The billionaire with no access to his money, the owner who changed the team's colours for 'luck' and protest chickens on the pitch! The good, bad and ugly of the Premier League's foreign owners as Newcastle fans pray their £300m Saudi takeover is more Rom

Daily Mail | April 26, 2020

Related Topics: Premier League, Roman Abramovich, Newcastle United F.C., Saudi Arabia, Newcastle upon Tyne, Thaksin Shinawatra, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Chelsea F.C.

Newcastle United are on the verge of a £300million takeover by a consortium backed by money from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund.

If the deal is completed, Newcastle would pass from the hands of retail tycoon Mike Ashley to the control of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

And with the Prince's personal wealth valued at £7billion and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund worth a staggering £260bn, Newcastle could soon be a club transformed.

Yasir Al-Rumayyan is set to become the new chairman of Newcastle if the takeover is finalised
Amanda Staveley (second from right) is helping deliver the takeover, which could transform the Magpies into a member of the Premier League's elite

They would become just the latest prominent club to pass into foreign ownership and, as history has shown us, that has the potential to be good, bad or downright ugly.

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