{"id":60931,"date":"2026-07-31T07:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/west-ham-amanda-staveley-and-mehrdad-ghodoussis-pcp-capital-partners-make-offer-for-stake-in-championship-club-football-news\/31\/07\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:06:09","slug":"west-ham-amanda-staveley-and-mehrdad-ghodoussis-pcp-capital-partners-make-offer-for-stake-in-championship-club-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/west-ham-amanda-staveley-and-mehrdad-ghodoussis-pcp-capital-partners-make-offer-for-stake-in-championship-club-football-news\/31\/07\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"West Ham: Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi&#8217;s PCP Capital Partners make offer for stake in Championship club | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Amanda Staveley and husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi&#8217;s PCP Capital Partners have made an offer to buy a 25.1 per cent stake in West Ham.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sky News<\/em>&#8216; Mark Kleinman broke the news on Thursday that the couple were preparing a bid for a share that belongs to the family of the late David Gold. That offer has now gone in.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sky News <\/em>also reported that the club&#8217;s current investors have first refusal on whether they would like to match the offer.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the situation insisted to <em>Sky News <\/em>that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11685\/13553660\/west-ham-daniel-kretinsky-poised-to-become-club-s-biggest-shareholder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daniel Kretinsky, who raised his share in the club earlier this year<\/a>, remains interested in a deal.<\/p>\n<p>However, West Ham&#8217;s ownership structure means he does not want to acquire all of the Gold-owned stake, which would make him the club&#8217;s majority owner.<\/p>\n<p>If there is an agreement with both parties, the Gold family will make a statement &#8211; not PCP &#8211; out of respect to all other shareholders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\" data-testid=\"article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption\">\n        <span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-testid=\"article-image-caption-text\">The family of the late David Gold currently own the 25.1 per cent stake in West Ham<br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Sky Sports News <\/em>understands there will be no public comment from PCP for the same reason while negotiations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Staveley and PCP have held discussions with a number of Premier League clubs since leaving Newcastle, including Tottenham, but are now focused on the Hammers.<\/p>\n<h3>What has happened at West Ham so far this summer?<\/h3>\n<p>It has been a busy summer for West Ham after their relegation from the Premier League. There were questions over whether <strong>Nuno Espirito Santo <\/strong>would continue as head coach &#8211; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11685\/13547894\/west-ham-nuno-espirito-santo-to-continue-as-head-coach-despite-relegation-from-premier-league-to-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">it was soon confirmed that he would.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11685\/13551368\/david-sullivan-west-ham-joint-chair-resigns-from-position-with-immediate-effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Joint-chairman <strong>David Sullivan<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>also stepped down after &#8220;serious historic allegations&#8221; emerged regarding his conduct, which he denies.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of transfers, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13559479\/mateus-fernandes-transfer-news-midfielder-set-for-medical-after-spurs-beat-man-utd-to-lb85m-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Matheus Fernandes <\/a><\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11685\/13565872\/crysencio-summerville-transfer-news-al-hilal-complete-lb60m-signing-of-netherlands-international-from-west-ham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Crysencio Summerville<\/a><\/strong> have been the biggest outgoings. But perhaps their best bit of business will be keeping captain <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11685\/13564319\/jarrod-bowen-transfer-news-west-ham-commits-future-to-club-despite-relegation-from-premier-league\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jarrod Bowen.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was also reported on Friday that West Ham are in talks with Celtic for midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13568688\/west-ham-transfer-news-hammers-in-talks-to-sign-celtic-midfielder-arne-engels-amid-premier-league-interest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Arne Engels.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/12040\/13568730\/west-ham-amanda-staveley-and-mehrdad-ghodoussis-pcp-capital-partners-make-offer-for-stake-in-championship-club\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Staveley and husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi&rsquo;s PCP Capital Partners have made an offer to buy a 25.1 per cent stake in West<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/west-ham-amanda-staveley-and-mehrdad-ghodoussis-pcp-capital-partners-make-offer-for-stake-in-championship-club-football-news\/31\/07\/2026\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[2425,2639,152,307,313,8075,1742,8074,33,592,677,8076,1105,7294,1095],"class_list":["post-60931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sport","tag-amanda","tag-capital","tag-championship","tag-club","tag-football","tag-ghodoussis","tag-ham","tag-mehrdad","tag-news","tag-offer","tag-partners","tag-pcp","tag-stake","tag-staveley","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/24\/07\/1600x900\/skysports-amanda-staveley-newcastle_6622913.jpg?20240710123558","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60933,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60931\/revisions\/60933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}