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Their wordsBut once that’s done, the Premier League ought to scrap these misguided rules.
Their wordsOwners should be free to spend their own money on football.
Their wordsFootball should prefer owners, like Mansour, who want to put money in.
Their wordsFootball clubs are extraordinarily sustainable.
Their wordsThis rule is supposed to stop bad actors from buying English clubs. It doesn’t.
Their wordsFootball, an inessential leisure activity of great symbolic importance, can thrive without foreign states or their rulers or proxies owning clubs.
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