Please read our Please read ourOn Friday 12 July 2024, the Newcastle United owners announced that Amanda Staveley would step down from all her positions with the club, including as one of the Newcastle United directors.Many greeting the news with astonishment, not seeing it coming at all.
Instead, a quite ridiculous state of affairs whereby Lee Charnley was the only officially named executive helping to run the club day to day AND the only person making up the Newcastle United board! Named as a single board member to satisfy the legalities, whilst Ashley relied on certain members of his Sports Direct inner circle to remotely oversee his NUFC interests.
Starting with the day of the takeover, these are the Newcastle United board appointments and resignations, as per the filings at Companies House that are available for the public toAbdulmajid Ahmed Alhagbani –Joined the Newcastle United directors on 25 July 2024, as confirmed by Companies House update on 7 October 2024.Roger Thornton, Jamie Reuben, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, Abdulmajid Ahmed Alhagbani and Asmaa Mohammed Rezeeq.
Looking from the outside, it appeared that as well as being very much the public face of Newcastle United, Amanda Staveley had ever increasingly become the link between the UK side of things with Newcastle United and the Saudi Arabia PIF.regularly reported as travelling back and forwards between the two countries, no doubt updating and coordinating with NUFC Chairman Yasir Al-Rumayyan and others who are part of the Saudi Arabia PIF side of things.