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English football clubs are drawing investors from around the world even as the teams remain risky and often unprofitable ventures, an analysis shows.
Premier League club losses are skyrocketing while investor appetite for the sport holds. Clubs popular enough to attract global capital are, at the same time, clubs that regularly lose money.
Global enthusiasm for English football has grown, yet the clubs themselves have not become more financially sound because of it. Investors are finding returns in the sport anyway, the analysis indicates.
How exactly they do it while the clubs bleed losses is the question at the center of the analysis.
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