Aug 1 (Reuters) - Vanessa Gold, daughter of former West Ham United chair David Gold, has reached an agreement to sell her ​family's shares to a consortium led by Amanda Staveley and ‌others, after a previously agreed sale to Czech businessman Daniel Kretinsky fell through.

The Gold family trust owns 25.1% of the shares in the English Championship (second-tier) club who were relegated ​from the Premier League last season.

"I have now reached an ​agreement to sell my family's shareholding to a consortium of ⁠PCP Capital Partners, led by Amanda Staveley and Mehrdad Ghodoussi, in ​partnership with Ashland Forest Capital Partners," Vanessa Gold said in a statement on ​Saturday.

"This sale remains subject to a pre-emption process, under which existing shareholders have the option to buy the shares instead. While the process has not yet concluded, ​I wanted to be open with our fans about where things ​stand and my intentions."

David Sullivan is the club's biggest shareholder, with 38.8%. Kretinsky, through ‌1890s ⁠Holdings, owns 27% and would have become the majority shareholder had the agreement to buy a 16% portion of the Gold family's shares gone through.

"On the 12th June Daniel Kretinsky and I agreed a sale ... ​unfortunately, since that ​time the ⁠original deal and other alternatives that we have discussed could not be brought to fruition," Gold said.

Staveley and ​her firm PCP Capital Partners had played a key ​role in ⁠helping Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) take over Premier League club Newcastle United in 2021.

"The Consortium will bring deep experience and understanding of what ⁠it ​takes to lead a successful football club, ​and I have every confidence in what they can bring to West Ham," Gold added.