Regardless of not being part of the membership, former Newcastle United co-owner Amanda Staveley gave an interview just lately the place she mentioned, what Newcastle nonetheless means to her and her plans for the Carabao Cup closing on Sunday.
Staveley, alongside her husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi, had been the face of the takeover again in 2021 and met with overwhelming positivity by supporters, however each departed fairly instantly final summer time.
The 2 nonetheless take pleasure in watching the membership from afar supporting each the boys’s and girls’s crew with Staveley being notably concerned with the latter throughout her time right here.
Staveley says Newcastle is ‘part of my soul’
It was an unlucky finish to what was essentially the most promising and thrilling interval of Newcastle’s current historical past for Staveley, however she stays unbelievably happy with what she helped us to attain, particularly the back-to-back promotions with the ladies’s crew.
Each Staveley and Ghodoussi are nonetheless closely concerned within the Newcastle neighborhood and can proceed supporting the membership after serving to us to construct a stable platform in the previous couple of years.
The 51-year-old businesswoman instructed ITV Information that she is ‘very excited’ for the cup closing this weekend the place she will likely be in attendance with Mehrdad and her household.
Even with the accidents we’ve sustained within the final week Staveley is ‘assured’ that Eddie Howe can nonetheless lead us to victory, although she abstained from making an predictions in worry of jinxing the end result. Watch the interview in full under:
Nice interview with Amanda Staveley on ITV speaking about:
▪️Worldwide Girls’s Day
▪️The success of @NUFCWomen
▪️How she will likely be at Wembley with @ghodoussi and her household
▪️How Newcastle seems like house to her, and at all times will likely be 🖤🤍 pic.twitter.com/9NkODJkelG
— Newcastle United Supporters Belief (@nufctrust) March 8, 2025
Newcastle are lacking Staveley’s private contact
Though Staveley could not have been one of the best candidate when it comes to footballing technique and monetary energy, the membership have since misplaced that connection that was so vital each on and off the pitch throughout her tenure right here.
Issues on the membership really feel like they’ve gone a little bit stale as of late and from the surface wanting in you do get the sense that there’s not that very same degree of communication between the board and Eddie Howe in addition to the gamers.
This summer time will play such an vital function within the membership’s long-term future having failed to herald any main first-team signings for practically two years now.