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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Sean Ingle

Premier League ‘not financially sustainable’, says La Liga’s Javier Tebas

Javier Tebas
Javier Tebas says all Premier League clubs lose money. Photograph: Olivier Hoslet/EPA

The president of La Liga, Javier Tebas, has questioned whether the Premier League is financially sustainable in the long term given it has “converted into a competition where all clubs lose money”.

Speaking at a conference about how to protect European football’s ecosystem, Tebas also promised to fight the rules that allow Premier League clubs to “distort” the transfer market by spending huge sums on players despite making losses.

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