Prince Andrew’s ex could buy PL club

IT WILL please those Premier League owners whose clubs are for sale at the right price that there is still a genuine buyer out there with more than enough money.

Leading financier Amanda Staveley, former girlfriend of Prince Andrew, has indicated that she will be interested in purchasing a top-flight club if the right one comes on the market.

And Staveley has the resources to buy every one of the 20 PL teams: she has a staggering £28billion of mainly sovereign wealth money from the Middle East under her management.

She also has extensive knowledge of what is required for a big-money football takeover, having sold Manchester City for Thaksin Shinawatra to Abu Dhabi’s Sheik Mansour.

And Staveley, through her business PCP Capital Partners, made a joint bid for a share of Liverpool with Chinese firm Everbright Limited a year ago that was rejected by the Fenway Sports Group. lSO

MUCH for equal interest to go with equal prize-money at Wimbledon. Roger Federer’s boringly easy men’s singles victory over Marin Cilic was watched by an average of 4.4million, approaching double the 2.5m average TV audience for the women’s final. MANCHESTER UNITED may be one of the richest clubs in the world — but they reportedly don’t want their travelling support staff on the US tour drinking in the bar on their tab during their stay in Los Angeles’s fabled Beverly Wilshire Hotel — because the prices are so expensive. Coincidentally, United’s entourage in the hotel includes bon

viveur club ambassador Bryan Robson (above). lTHERE

is understandable irritation at Sky Sports that their star transfer news presenter Jim White, who also moonlights as host of a talkSPORT daily radio show, tweeted: ‘For all the latest transfer news, you’ll hear it first on talkSPORT from 10.’