The takeover offer for Newcastle United from Peter Kenyon includes highlighting manager Steve Bruce's 'European record'.

The Sun reports former Manchester United and Chelsea chief Kenyon has been working with American firm GACP Sports - who also own Ligue 1 club Bordeaux - on a £300million offer to buy out Mike Ashley.

But a document sent to potential investors said: “GACP Sports plans to support the current manager, Steve Bruce, who has had unparalleled success in Europe."

In fact, Toon boss Bruce has only had ONE failed European campaign as a manager with Hull City.

And the Tigers lost to Belgian side Lokeren in the play-offs for the Europa League group stage in 2014-15.

A plausible explanation for the inaccuracy is that Bruce's name was hastily cut-and-pasted into an existing document after he replaced Spaniard Rafael Benitez on July 17.