–- Owners from 13 different countries operate in the English Premier League, only five clubs have British owners.
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CANCÚN, Q. ROO.-The Premier League is the ‘richest’ league in the world, according to the portal Transfermarkt, the previous campaign the total payroll reached 8 thousand 66 million euros. A key to their success is the investment of foreign capital that the teams have, a factor that makes it possible to sign players for outrageous amounts.
Of the 20 teams that will be in the English First Division next season, 15 have foreign entrepreneurs or companies as owners or majority partners. Only five have original owners from the island, the inventors of the ball, they do not own it on their own land.
The only clubs that have local owners are Crystal Palace, Brentford, Brighton, West Ham and Tottenham, while Everton has the Iranian-British businessman Farhad Moshiri as its main shareholder, who lives in Monaco, but operates a Russian investment fund. .
There are five teams that have American owners, Fenway Sports, which operates Liverpool, Stan Kroenke with Arsenal, the Glazer Family with Manchester United, Shahid Khan (originally from Pakistan, but with investments in the United States) from Fulham, to them Todd Boehly joined, who acquired Chelsea, after the sale of the Russian Román Abramovich.
Since we mentioned the Russians, this upcoming Premier League campaign will feature another Russian-owned club. The Bournemouth, whose owner Maxim Demin, was not subject to compulsory sale, being considered a British citizen.
It is worth noting the investment of Arab states in Manchester City and Newcastle, as well as Wolves with China, Leicester City with Thailand, Aston Villa with Egypt, Southampton with Serbia, Leeds with Italy and Nottingham Forest with Greece.
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