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Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley is reportedly close to selling the club to a Nigerian consortium who have expressed an interest in buying the club.

If the deal goes through, history will be made as it will be the first African consortium to take over a Premier League team.

The consortium, led by a company called NVA Management, is comprised of a set of wealthy African gentleman, who have so far reportedly offered Ashley £350m for the club.

Ashley has refused this, however, stating that he will only accept a bid of £400m. There was also some interest shown in the club from a Dubai consortium, but this has seemed to have faded as the bid was again to low in Ashley’s opinion.

The CEO of NVA Management has told KickOffNigeria that the Nigerians are now favourites to take over the club.

"All along I have been working hard to get wealthy and football loving Nigerian Entrepreneurs to buy the club since the owner Mike Ashley indicated his willingness to sell the club to the person, people or entrepreneurs that can meet the 400 million pounds selling price of the club," he said.

"Right now I am happy to tell you that well meaning Nigerians have responded and the consortium of Nigerian entrepreneurs has so far contributed 350 million pounds to buy the club but the club boss, Ashley stood his ground that he won't sell the club until the money is raised to the asking price of 400 million pounds.

"So what that means is that we need to raise another 50 or 100 million pounds to shut the door behind the other top Arab companies that are also interested in the club. The Arab companies have also indicated interest and made offer but they haven't met the asking price too."