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...The sale of the club by British retail tycoon Mike Ashley had stalled for months after league officials initially determined that Saudi Arabia would be in effective control....
...The Premier League said it had ended a dispute with the club’s previous owner Mike Ashley regarding the takeover process and that “the club has been sold to the consortium with immediate effect”....
...The Premier League said it had ended a dispute over the takeover process with the previous owner, British retail tycoon Mike Ashley, and “the club has been sold to the consortium with immediate effect”....
...Newcastle’s owner, the retail tycoon Mike Ashley, has taken the Premier League to arbitration, arguing that PIF should not be considered part of the Saudi state and therefore not be subject to the owner’...
...Mike Gatting went on to become an England batting coach and president of Marylebone Cricket Club, the august body that runs Lord’s....
...Political and commercial wrangles would delay the deal for two years until this week, when a consortium led by the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund acquired the club from British retail tycoon Mike Ashley...
...As one told me this week: “At some point it will have to be sold,”Meanwhile, we also have a dispatch from erstwhile FT sports editor and current global tech editor Murad Ahmed on the life and legacy of Aussie...
...When Saudi Arabia dropped its months-long pursuit of the English Premier League club last year, it wasn’t because they had failed to agree a deal with Newcastle’s owner, the billionaire retail tycoon Mike...
...These people added, however, that Newcastle, owned by British retail billionaire Mike Ashley, voted against the transaction....
...Murad Ahmed and Max Seddon explain. (FT, NPR) Add ‘Tokyo Olympics’ to myFT for all our coverage from the Games, and don’t miss our “alternative medals table”....
...To understand the political and commercial machinations behind that deal, do read on — Murad Ahmed, Sports Editor Saudi Arabia, Newcastle and the end of football as fans knew it Some football fans retain...
...A statement issued on Wednesday night on behalf of the football club and its owner, Mike Ashley, the British retail billionaire, offers a different version of how the deal fell apart this year....
.... — Murad Ahmed, sports editor FC Barcelona and Lionel Messi: more than a crisis This special dispatch is by Simon Kuper in Paris FC Barcelona is in an acute crisis....
...The Saudi-led consortium had agreed in April to purchase the club for £300m from its owner Mike Ashley, the UK retail tycoon....
...The owners of these clubs, which include retail magnate Mike Ashley at Newcastle United and Bahamas-based billionaire Joe Lewis at Tottenham Hotspur, have been criticised by the PFA....
...Burnley chairman Mike Garlick has said his club will “run out of money” by August. “It’s a completely unprecedented situation,” he said in a statement....
...The Public Investment Fund, steered by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is providing the vast majority of funding for a £300m deal to acquire the team from British retail billionaire Mike Ashley....
...The club is owned by UK retail magnate Mike Ashley, who was asking as much as £400m from potential buyers earlier this month, according to a person familiar with the talks....
...Scoreboard is written by Samuel Agini, Murad Ahmed and Arash Massoudi in London, Sara Germano, James Fontanella-Khan, and Anna Nicolaou in New York, with contributions from the team that produce the Due...
...The all-cash deal is being structured through an investment vehicle created by British financier Amanda Staveley, who has led talks to acquire the top-tier team owned by UK billionaire Mike Ashley, according...
...Murad, this deal has been months, if not years in the making. How did we get to this point?...
...Earlier that day it emerged that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund was the leading backer of a move to acquire the team from UK retail tycoon Mike Ashley for slightly less than £350m....
...The Takeover Panel ruled on Friday that South African businessman Dave King contravened the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers during a bitter battle with retail billionaire Mike Ashley for control of the...
...New York-based Vindex, the venture launched by Major League Gaming founders Mike Sepso and Sundance DiGiovanni, is buying the Beyond Gaming brand of esports sites from Mike Ashley’s Game Digital....
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