Amanda Staveley is one of the defining figures in the recent history of Premier League finance.
The deal broker helped broker Sheikh Mansour and the Abu Dhabi state’s takeover of Manchester City in 2008, and she herself nearly led a consortium to buy Liverpool a few years later, before FSG took over.
Even her dealings outside of football have a Premier League flavour. Her career – for better and for worse – has been very tightly wrapped up with Barclays, the Premier League’s naming rights partner for nearly a decade.
In 2021, she re-emerged on the Premier League scene as the face of the takeover that saw Newcastle United bought by the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF).
She herself took a stake in the club as part of the £305m deal, as did the Reuben Brothers. A few years later, despite Newcastle enjoying some of the most successful seasons in their history, she was effectively ousted.
But Staveley and her business partner and husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi remain hugely popular at St James’ Park. When it emerged that they were looking at another Premier League club, therefore, there was some sadness on the terraces at Newcastle.
Staveley’s investment company makes several changes as Premier League investment on cards
Staveley’s PCP Capital Partners investment company has, for years now, been linked with an investment in Tottenham Hotspur, either in the form of a full takeover or minority share acquisition.
At one point, she was said to have raised £500m with a view to a deal to get back involved at a top club. Staveley has Huntington’s disease and has said she “needs to work” as her way of coping with the degenerative condition. An active role as opposed to a passive investment, therefore, seems likely.
More recently – and especially since the departure of David Sullivan – Staveley has also been linked with West Ham, who were relegated from the Premier League at the end of 2025-26.
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But it had gone relatively quiet of late. That is until Staveley’s PCP Capital Partners filed several updates with UK business registrar Companies House over the course of the last few days.
Last Friday, PCP Capital Partners UK Limited changed its address from one in Park Lane, London to one in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
Later in the day, the company notified Companies House that Staveley and Ghodoussi had ceased to be both persons of significant control and directors of the business, with one person – a Miss Joanne Mills, who is likely acting as a trustee – later appointed as director and a person with significant control.
Finally, PCP Capital Partners UK Limited changed its name. It is now Stanwick Limited.
Could filing this paperwork be housekeeping ahead of a move to invest in a club?