{"id":100635,"date":"2022-10-06T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=100635"},"modified":"2022-10-06T08:29:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:29:59","slug":"star-signings-and-sportswashing-claims-newcastle-s-saudi-takeover-one-year-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/star-signings-and-sportswashing-claims-newcastle-s-saudi-takeover-one-year-on","title":{"rendered":"Star signings and sportswashing claims &#8211; Newcastle&#8217;s Saudi takeover one year on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle&#8217;s new owners celebrate a year in charge at St James&#8217; Park on Friday.To the black and white faithful, who had willed someone, anyone to buy out Mike Ashley after years of watching the club drift, their presence is cause for hope and excitement, while, beyond Tyneside, there remains discomfort.Here, the PA news agency takes a look at what has changed on Gallowgate over the last 12 months.The hierarchyWhen Amanda Staveley&#8217;s consortium, which comprises the financier&#8217;s PCP Capital Partners, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Investment Fund and the Reuben Brothers, completed their &#163;305million takeover on October 7 last year, they took on a mammoth task. They inherited an unpopular head coach, an unbalanced squad, a sub-standard training base and a disaffected fanbase. But where Ashley had operated at arm&#8217;s length, they, and in particular Staveley and husband Mehrdad Ghodoussi, have stood front and centre to spearhead the first stages of a mission which has captured the imagination of the Geordie public and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle&#8217;s new owners celebrate a year in charge at St James&#8217; Park on Friday. To the black and white faithful, who had willed someone, anyone to buy out Mike Ashley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135,140],"tags":[139,138,58],"class_list":["post-100635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","category-soccer","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}