Steve Bruce reacts to Newcastle United takeover reports

Amanada Staveley is fronting a £340million takeover bid backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund and the billionaire Reuben brothers.

Head coach Steve Bruce said: “I don't get involved with all that. It's for other people to worry about. I concentrate on what I can do and what I can affect.

“It has an unsettling effect on everybody, of course, I wouldn't lie, but we're somehow getting used to it. All I'm concentrating on is tomorrow, the game (against Norwich City) tomorrow, and certainly the players are as well as myself.”

“If there was something to talk about and something to tell me, he (Lee Charnley, United’s managing director) will tell me. I have a relationship with him that I think he would. At the moment all he's said, there's nothing in it (to report).”