Simon Jordan has dismissed claims that Amanda Staveley guided the Saudi’s to buy the wrong club in Newcastle United, as he told talkSPORT.
This comes after the Serie A president, Paolo Dal Pino, suggested that Staveley helped PIF buy a ‘small car’, i.e. Newcastle instead of a Formula One machine, i.e Inter or AC Milan.
Whilst the recent Newcastle takeover happened in a pretty quick fashion after the piracy issue was settled between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
It was actually a long time coming for those in Newcastle colours and something they had been waiting for a long while.
Nonetheless, the Serie A president suggested that big clubs in Italy were ‘overlooked’ by Staveley for the Magpies when she helped the Saudi’s with the takeover.
But Jordan made it clear why the right call was still made by the English businesswoman.
On whether Staveley took the Saudi’s in the wrong direction: “No, because she bought a football club that’s in the English Premier League, which dwarfs Serie A and dwarfs La Liga.
“These leagues that covert and wish. But wishing doesn’t make it so guys that they had the financial power that the Premier League has.
“Antonio Conte doesn’t want to work for Inter Milan because they can’t compete. He can’t build a side to retain the players.
“Potentially, the Premier League allows a far different landscape – Amanda Staveley, first of all, she probably couldn’t buy Inter Milan for £300 million, so the price would have been a determiner because Mike Ashley put a price on it and I would suggest Inter would have a greater valuation on that.”
All of this won’t bother the Newcastle fans in the slightest because ever since this takeover has happened, it seems as though people have, from the outside, been trying to get at them.
They have been criticised left, right and centre, and it’s something that won’t go away, especially if they surge up that Premier League table.
Whilst the likes of Chelsea and Manchester City got to the top and added numerous trophies to their cabinet.
Newcastle might just find life that bit tough because of the extra competition ahead of them.
And the possibility that rival clubs might just prove to be more difficult to deal with.
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