INSIDER: Saudis WILL buy Newcastle - not Marseille

Football
5 Jul 2020 • 7:19 PM MYT
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The Saudi-backed push to buy Newcastle United remains on track.

That's according to local journalist Romain Molina, who has moved to rubbish claims the Saudis are going cold on Newcastle and focusing on Olympique Marseille.

He told Parle Foot: "They are buying Newcastle with the Saudi sovereign fund, you think they are going to break the contract to buy a second football club in France where they have absolutely nothing to do?

"If Mohammed bin Salman is behind OM? I don't know, I don't have the network to know that and nobody has it.

"The Saudi state wants to buy Newcastle and go to the Premier League. It's for business reasons because it is the biggest championship."