Richest Premier League Owners: Net Worth Ranking.

PCP Capital Partners + Reuben Brothers + PIF — 85% PIF, 15% RB Sports & Media

The Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund — better known by its acronym PIF — completed the £305 million takeover of Newcastle United on 7 October 2021 after a fourteen-month regulatory delay in which the Premier League's owners-and-directors test paused over questions about the legal separation between PIF and the Saudi state. Assets under management have grown from around $390 billion at the time of the takeover to more than $925 billion by 2026, drawn from Saudi crude-oil receipts, the Aramco IPO proceeds, and the fund's domestic mega-projects including Neom, the Red Sea Project, and Diriyah Gate; this scale makes PIF by some distance the wealthiest single ownership entity in the Premier League. Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of PIF and chairman of Saudi Aramco, sits as Newcastle chairman, with co-investors PCP Capital Partners (Amanda Staveley, who brokered the original deal and remained on the board until summer 2024) and the Reuben Brothers (David and Simon Reuben, UK-based property and metals investors with a substantial personal fortune in the tens of billions) taking a minority RB Sports & Media stake of around 15%. On-pitch investment since the takeover has lifted Newcastle from genuine relegation candidates in early 2022 to a sustained European qualification, with Eddie Howe's appointment in November 2021, Alexander Isak's club-record £63 million signing from Real Sociedad in summer 2022, and the 2024 League Cup final defeat to Manchester United marking the club's return to the silverware conversation. Off-pitch, PIF has funded the St James' Park training-ground redevelopment and is exploring options for either a Park expansion or a new ground in the longer term. The takeover remains controversial — Amnesty International and other organisations have criticised the deal as sportswashing — and the Premier League's tightened associated-party transaction rules, introduced in late 2021, were directly shaped by the case.

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Vice President of the United Arab Emirates · Abu Dhabi United Group

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President and Deputy Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and a member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family, completed the purchase of Manchester City from former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in September 2008 through Abu Dhabi United Group, a private investment vehicle distinct from the UAE's own sovereign wealth holdings. His personal net worth is estimated at $20 billion-plus, but the broader Al Nahyan family's combined wealth — including sovereign and private holdings — runs into the high hundreds of billions and includes the Mubadala Investment Company and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority among its institutional vehicles. The on-pitch transformation of Manchester City has been the most thorough in the modern Premier League: eight Premier League titles between 2012 and 2025, six FA Cups, eight League Cups, the 2023 UEFA Champions League under Pep Guardiola (the club's first European Cup, completing a continental treble), and a long-running run of league dominance unprecedented in the post-1992 era. The off-pitch infrastructure includes the Etihad Campus redevelopment, the City Football Academy training ground, and ongoing stadium expansion at the Etihad. City Football Group, the holding company set up to administer Manchester City's wider portfolio, now owns or holds significant stakes in New York City FC, Melbourne City, Yokohama F. Marinos, Mumbai City, Girona FC, Lommel SK, Montevideo City Torque, Sichuan Jiuniu, ES Troyes AC, Palermo, Bahia, and Bolívar — making it by some distance the largest multi-club ownership network in world football. The model has been imitated by Red Bull, the City Football Group sale of a stake to Silver Lake in 2019 (valuing CFG at $4.8 billion) was the first major external capital injection into a multi-club football group. The club has been subject to a long-running Premier League investigation into alleged breaches of financial fair play and associated-party transaction rules, with proceedings continuing through 2025; the club has consistently and publicly denied any wrongdoing.

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Kroenke Sports & Entertainment · sole owner since 2018

Stan Kroenke, the Missouri-born American billionaire who made his original fortune as a partner in his wife Ann Walton Kroenke's family Walmart-related holdings and then in real-estate developments adjacent to Walmart stores across the American Midwest, bought his initial Arsenal stake of 9.9% in April 2007 from outgoing director Danny Fiszman. He gradually accumulated shares through the next decade and took full ownership in August 2018 with the £600 million acquisition of Alisher Usmanov's 30.4% holding, taking Arsenal off the public markets as a private company. His personal net worth is approximately $13.6 billion as of 2026, making the Kroenke family one of the wealthiest in American sport. Kroenke Sports & Entertainment's portfolio is among the largest single-owner sports holdings globally and includes the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL (Super Bowl LVI winners in 2022, with their $5.5 billion SoFi Stadium opened in 2020 as the most expensive stadium ever built in any sport), the Denver Nuggets of the NBA (2023 NBA championship winners), the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL (2022 Stanley Cup winners), the Colorado Rapids of MLS, and majority ownership of Arsenal in the Premier League — a stretch of championship outcomes across multiple leagues that few global owners can match. Arsenal under Kroenke has, after the difficult late-Arsène Wenger and Unai Emery years, invested heavily in Mikel Arteta's squad rebuild since 2019, with sporting director Edu Gaspar (until summer 2024, replaced by Andrea Berta) leading recruitment that produced Declan Rice (£105 million from West Ham, summer 2023), Kai Havertz (£65 million from Chelsea, summer 2023), and a series of high-value academy graduations including Bukayo Saka. The 2024-25 and 2025-26 Premier League title campaigns marked the first sustained Arsenal title push since the 2003-04 Invincibles. Kroenke himself remains a famously hands-off owner, rarely speaking to the media and visiting the Emirates only occasionally; his son Josh Kroenke serves as the family's day-to-day Arsenal representative and is the public face of the ownership.

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ENIC Group majority shareholders since 2001

Joe Lewis, born in the East End of London in 1937 and the founder of the Bahamas-based Tavistock Group, made his initial fortune as a foreign-exchange trader, most famously as one of the principal speculators who shorted sterling alongside George Soros on Black Wednesday in September 1992. Tavistock Group's portfolio extends across hospitality (Mandarin Oriental properties and the Albany resort in the Bahamas), oil and gas (Mitchell Energy in the United States), and pharmaceuticals (Tavistock Restaurants in Florida); Lewis's personal net worth peaked around $5.5 billion before he transferred his Tottenham stake to a family trust in October 2022 amid US insider-trading proceedings (to which he pleaded guilty in January 2024, receiving a fine and probation rather than custody). Daniel Levy, ENIC's representative at the club, has been Tottenham's executive chairman since 2001 and is the longest-serving Premier League chairman by some margin; he is widely regarded as one of the toughest transfer negotiators in world football, repeatedly extracting top-of-market fees for outgoing players (approximately £85 million for Gareth Bale to Real Madrid in 2013, approximately £100 million including bonuses for Harry Kane to Bayern Munich in 2023). The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, opened in April 2019 at a build cost of approximately £1.2 billion, remains the largest single-club stadium investment in English football history; the venue's design includes a fully retractable football pitch revealing an NFL artificial surface beneath, dual-use for the multi-year NFL London games series, the Beavertown microbrewery installation, and a 17,500-capacity single-tier South Stand modelled on Dortmund's Yellow Wall. On-pitch performance has been more uneven than the off-pitch infrastructure suggests — Tottenham have not won a major trophy under ENIC ownership since the 2008 League Cup — and recurring supporter protests have centred on transfer-window investment levels and the club's reluctance to break the wage structure for marquee signings.

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Boehly-Clearlake consortium · acquired 2022 for £4.25 billion

Todd Boehly, the American financier and co-founder of holding company Eldridge Industries, led the consortium that purchased Chelsea from Roman Abramovich in May 2022 in a UK-government-supervised forced sale triggered by sanctions imposed on Abramovich in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The £4.25 billion headline acquisition price — composed of £2.5 billion for the club itself, with the proceeds ring-fenced for Ukraine-related humanitarian relief, plus £1.75 billion of committed future investment — was at the time the largest acquisition in the history of any sports franchise. Clearlake Capital, the Los Angeles-based private-equity firm co-founded by José E. Feliciano and Behdad Eghbali, provides the bulk of the financial firepower with assets under management exceeding $90 billion across technology, industrial, and consumer holdings. Boehly's personal net worth is estimated at $5 billion, with Eldridge's own portfolio spanning insurance (Security Benefit Life), real estate, media (Dick Clark Productions, The Hollywood Reporter), and a major minority stake in the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA. He is also a part-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (where he sits as principal alongside the Guggenheim group, the Dodgers having won the 2020 and 2024 World Series under that ownership), and holds further interests in the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA. The Boehly-Clearlake era at Chelsea has been marked by an unprecedented level of transfer spending — approximately £1.3 billion across the consortium's first three windows, with extended amortisation contracts for Enzo Fernández, Moisés Caicedo, Cole Palmer, Nicolas Jackson, and others — and by a rapid managerial turnover (Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter, Frank Lampard interim, Mauricio Pochettino, and Enzo Maresca within 30 months) before settling on the Maresca project. The 2024-25 UEFA Conference League title was the consortium's first piece of silverware; the longer-term Stamford Bridge redevelopment plans, repeatedly mooted under Abramovich, remain unresolved.

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John W. Henry, Tom Werner — owners since 2010

Fenway Sports Group, controlled by Illinois-born commodities trader John W. Henry and television-producer-turned-baseball-executive Tom Werner, completed the purchase of Liverpool from Tom Hicks and George Gillett on 15 October 2010 for £300 million, ending a fractious five-year period of leveraged American ownership that had brought the club close to administration and triggered repeated supporter-led protests. The group's overall net worth is approximately $11 billion, with Henry's personal wealth estimated at $4.5 billion, derived primarily from quantitative-finance commodity-fund returns through John W. Henry & Company in the 1980s and 1990s. FSG's sports portfolio is among the most successful in modern American ownership: the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (acquired in 2002 for $660 million, four World Series titles since under FSG including the 2018 championship), the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL (acquired in 2021, three Stanley Cups since although those predate the FSG era under the previous Mario Lemieux ownership), a stake in NASCAR's RFK Racing alongside Brad Keselowski, ownership of the New England Sports Network broadcast platform, and majority stakes in the PGA Tour-affiliated TGL indoor golf league. The 2016 Main Stand redevelopment (£100 million, lifting capacity to 54,074) and the 2023 Anfield Road End expansion (£80 million, lifting capacity to 61,276) have made Anfield the third-largest English club ground after Old Trafford and the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The defining footballing decision under FSG was the October 2015 hiring of Jürgen Klopp, replacing Brendan Rodgers, with the structured succession to Arne Slot from Feyenoord in summer 2024 reflecting the group's general preference for scouting-led, data-informed managerial appointments. The 2019 Champions League and the long-awaited 2019-20 Premier League title (the club's first top-flight title in 30 years) are the most prominent on-pitch achievements of the FSG era. In 2023 FSG sold a minority stake to Dynasty Equity for $200 million in a refinancing structure.

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Glazer family holding since 2005 (partial sale to INEOS 2024)

The American Glazer family, whose patriarch Malcolm Glazer made his fortune in shopping-centre real estate, mobile-home parks, and the food-services holding company First Allied Corporation, completed the purchase of Manchester United on 12 May 2005 for £790 million in a leveraged buyout that loaded approximately £525 million of acquisition debt onto the club itself — a structure that has remained controversial with supporters for two decades and was a direct trigger for the 2005 founding of breakaway club FC United of Manchester. Combined Glazer family net worth is approximately $6 billion, distributed across the six surviving children of Malcolm Glazer (who died in 2014) — Avram, Joel, Bryan, Kevin, Edward, and Darcie — each of whom holds an equal share of the family trust that owns the controlling Manchester United stake. The Glazer family also owns the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL (acquired in 1995 for $192 million, Super Bowl XXXVII winners in 2003 under Jon Gruden and Super Bowl LV winners in 2021 under Bruce Arians with Tom Brady at quarterback). In February 2024 a minority Manchester United stake of around 28% was sold to Sir Jim Ratcliffe's INEOS for an enterprise-value-equivalent of approximately $1.6 billion, with Ratcliffe taking operational control of football matters while the Glazers retained their majority controlling shareholding. The Glazer-Ratcliffe split structure is unusual in the Premier League and has produced visible friction in commercial and stadium-planning decisions; the Old Trafford redevelopment plan, mooted as a £2 billion full reconstruction, remains under the Ratcliffe-led football operations purview. On-pitch, the Glazer years delivered five Premier League titles between 2007 and 2013 under Sir Alex Ferguson, with the post-Ferguson period yielding no league title and a recurring pattern of expensive managerial changes from David Moyes through Louis van Gaal, José Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Erik ten Hag, and Rúben Amorim (appointed November 2024 from Sporting CP).

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INEOS founder · minority stake of around 28% since February 2024

Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the Manchester-born, Failsworth-raised petrochemicals magnate who founded INEOS in 1998 by acquiring underperforming chemical-plant assets from BP and reorganising them as a high-cashflow industrial holding company, completed his acquisition of an initial minority stake in Manchester United (around 28% as of 2026, after subsequent top-ups) on 20 February 2024 for an enterprise-value-equivalent of approximately $1.6 billion, taking operational control of football matters while the Glazer family retained their majority shareholding. Personal net worth is approximately $13 billion as of 2026, with INEOS itself generating around $65 billion in annual revenue across petrochemicals, oil-and-gas extraction, automotive (the INEOS Grenadier off-roader, built at the former Mercedes-Smart plant in Hambach, France), and consumer (Belstaff). INEOS Sport's wider portfolio is among the most diverse in any single ownership group globally: OGC Nice in Ligue 1 (acquired in summer 2019 for €100 million), the principal partnership in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team (33% stake acquired in late 2020), Team INEOS Grenadiers in cycling (the rebranded former Team Sky, eight Tour de France titles under that lineage), the New Zealand SailGP sailing team, and historic backing of Sir Ben Ainslie's INEOS Britannia America's Cup campaign. The Manchester United operational takeover has brought a wave of senior-management changes, including the hiring of Sir Dave Brailsford (originally from Team Sky cycling) to oversee sporting strategy, Omar Berrada as chief executive (from Manchester City), Jason Wilcox as technical director, and Dan Ashworth as sporting director (briefly — Ashworth was sacked in December 2024). The November 2024 appointment of Rúben Amorim from Sporting CP, replacing Erik ten Hag, was the first managerial change under Ratcliffe's football authority. Off-pitch, the Old Trafford redevelopment plan — either a full reconstruction up to 100,000 capacity at a cost of approximately £2 billion, or a substantial refurbishment — is the largest Ratcliffe-era commitment under consideration.

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NSWE Group · co-owners since 2018

Nassef Sawiris, the Egyptian-born industrialist whose family fortune originated in the Orascom Construction empire built by his father Onsi Sawiris in the 1950s, and Wesley Edens, the American private-equity figure who co-founded Fortress Investment Group in 1998, acquired controlling stakes in Aston Villa in July 2018 when the West Midlands club was in serious financial trouble in the Championship and at risk of administration. Sawiris's personal net worth is approximately $9 billion, derived primarily from his chairmanship of OCI N.V., one of the world's largest nitrogen-fertiliser producers, with additional holdings in Adidas (where he was a board member through the 2010s), LafargeHolcim, and the broader Sawiris family construction interests across the Middle East and Africa. Edens's net worth is approximately $2.5 billion, derived from his Fortress Investment Group co-founding (sold to SoftBank in 2017 for $3.3 billion and subsequently divested back to Mubadala in 2024). Beyond Aston Villa, Edens co-owns the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA alongside Marc Lasry and Jamie Dinan (acquired in 2014 for $550 million, NBA champions in 2021 with Giannis Antetokounmpo), the New York Subway-shop Brightline higher-speed rail project, and holds historical interests in transportation, lending, and real estate via Fortress. The Aston Villa transformation under NSWE Group has been the most dramatic in the Premier League's mid-tier — promotion from the Championship in 2019 via the play-off final, the dismissal of Steven Gerrard as manager in October 2022 and the hiring of Unai Emery from Villarreal as his replacement, qualification for the Champions League for the first time since the 1982-83 European Cup-winning campaign, and consistent European football across the 2024-25 and 2025-26 seasons. Major transfer investment under the regime includes Moussa Diaby, Pau Torres, Amadou Onana, and Morgan Rogers, with the Villa Park stadium expansion plan now under active consultation to take capacity above 50,000.

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Three-way ownership since 2015

Steve Parish, the UK advertising-technology executive and lifelong Crystal Palace supporter who led the four-man CPFC 2010 consortium that rescued the club from administration in June 2010, has continued in the role of executive chairman through the subsequent rebuild and the 2015 sale of a controlling joint stake to American private-equity figures Joshua Harris and David Blitzer. Parish's personal net worth is estimated at approximately $400 million from the earlier sale of his advertising-tech business Tag, with his ongoing role at Selhurst Park structured around day-to-day football and stadium operations. Joshua Harris, co-founder of Apollo Global Management — the New York-based alternative-investment firm with more than $700 billion under management as of 2026 — has a personal net worth of approximately $7 billion and was the unsuccessful Chelsea bidder in 2022 before his successful $6.05 billion acquisition of the Washington Commanders of the NFL in summer 2023. David Blitzer, senior managing director at Blackstone, the world's largest alternative-investment firm with more than $1 trillion under management, has a personal net worth of approximately $1.8 billion. The combined Crystal Palace ownership wealth thus exceeds $9 billion. Harris and Blitzer also jointly own the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA (acquired 2011 for $280 million), the New Jersey Devils of the NHL (acquired 2013 for $320 million), the Cardiff Devils ice hockey team in the Elite League, FC Augsburg in the German Bundesliga (Blitzer stake, acquired 2021), and Real Salt Lake of MLS, with their Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment vehicle being one of the more diversified multi-sport ownership networks in North American sport. The on-pitch identity of Crystal Palace has stabilised around the Parish-led structure with Oliver Glasner appointed in February 2024 to replace Roy Hodgson, the 2025 FA Cup final win — the club's first major trophy in their history — and the 2025-26 European campaign in the Conference League marking the high points of the ownership era.

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Sole owner since 2009

Tony Bloom, the Brighton-born professional poker player, sports-betting investor, and founder of the London-based statistical-analysis firm Starlizard, has been the sole owner of Brighton & Hove Albion since May 2009 and is a fourth-generation Brighton supporter from a Sussex family with multi-generational ties to the club; his grandfather Harry Bloom was a long-serving Brighton vice-chairman, and his uncle Ray Bloom served as the club's chairman during the 1980s. Personal net worth is approximately $1.7 billion, derived from his sports-betting analytics business, personal poker winnings (Bloom is one of the most successful online poker players of the last two decades, with documented multi-million-dollar tournament earnings), and a series of high-conviction investments in private companies. The Bloom-led investment in data-driven recruitment, with Starlizard's analytics team applying the same probabilistic models used in the betting business to player identification, has driven Brighton's rise from Championship promotion in May 2017 to consistent top-half Premier League finishes and the 2022-23 sixth-place finish that qualified the club for European football for the first time in its history. Brighton's recruitment pattern — buying undervalued players from less-monitored leagues, developing them at the Amex, and selling them at substantial profit (Marc Cucurella to Chelsea for £62 million, Moisés Caicedo to Chelsea for £115 million, Alexis Mac Allister to Liverpool for £35 million, Robert Sánchez to Chelsea) — has set a transfer-market template that other mid-tier Premier League clubs have explicitly tried to copy. Bloom also owns Belgian Pro League club Royale Union Saint-Gilloise (acquired in 2018, Belgian Pro League champions in 2024-25 under Sébastien Pocognoli, and regular Champions League qualifiers since 2023). Bloom has loaned the club over £400 million in interest-free funding since taking ownership, including the self-funded construction of the Amex Stadium (opened 2011, £93 million build cost) and the AMEX Elite Football Performance Centre.

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Black Knight Football Club consortium · majority sale December 2022

Bill Foley, the American businessman who built his fortune as the founder of title-insurance giant Fidelity National Financial and as a serial acquirer of operating companies through his Black Knight technology platform, acquired majority control of AFC Bournemouth in December 2022 through his Black Knight Football Club consortium for an enterprise value of approximately £120 million. Personal net worth is approximately $1.6 billion as of 2026. The selling shareholder was Maxim Demin, the Russian-born British petrochemicals trader whose estimated net worth of approximately $1.5 billion came from a long career as a trader at Petrochem Holdings; Demin had bankrolled Bournemouth's remarkable rise from League One in 2011 to four seasons in the Premier League before agreeing the sale to Foley with the club back in the top flight. Demin retained a minority stake at the time of the sale and remains an associate of the ownership. Foley's wider sports portfolio is one of the most active among smaller-tier American owners: the Vegas Golden Knights of the NHL (founded as an expansion franchise in 2017 with Foley as principal owner, Stanley Cup winners in 2023 only six years after their first NHL game), majority ownership of Premier Lacrosse League franchises, and minority stakes in additional MLS and rugby ventures. Foley also chairs the Lozenge Hospitality and Foley Family Wines groups, alongside a substantial portfolio of premium Californian wine estates. Under Black Knight, AFC Bournemouth has continued to invest in academy infrastructure, the Vitality Stadium operations, and the squad — with Andoni Iraola appointed manager in summer 2023 from Rayo Vallecano, taking over from Gary O'Neil — while maintaining the Premier League status that Demin established. A new stadium for the club, replacing the 11,307-capacity Vitality, has been under early-stage exploration since the Foley acquisition but no firm plans have been published as of 2026.

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ALK majority since December 2020 · Garlick chairman emeritus

American investment firm ALK Capital, led by chairman Alan Pace (the former president of MLS franchise Real Salt Lake), completed an 84% majority acquisition of Burnley FC in December 2020 in a £170 million leveraged buyout — a transaction structure that loaded a substantial portion of the acquisition financing onto the club itself in a way that drew comparisons with the 2005 Glazer takeover at Manchester United, though at much smaller absolute scale. Mike Garlick, a UK-based business owner with an estimated personal net worth of approximately £100 million from a series of business interests across software and property, served as Burnley FC chairman from 2012 to 2023 and was central to the long, patient rebuild that took the club back into the Premier League in 2016; he retains a board role as chairman emeritus and a minority shareholding. John Banaszkiewicz, a London-based investment banker with extensive experience in commodities trading and structured finance, joined the Burnley board as a non-executive director as part of the ALK transaction and represents one of the minority financial interests in the post-takeover ownership structure. ALK's wider Velocity Capital portfolio includes minority stakes in RCD Espanyol of La Liga (Spain), FC Den Bosch of the Dutch second tier, and assorted smaller-tier football and sports-data holdings. The on-pitch trajectory of Burnley under ALK has been turbulent: relegation from the Premier League in May 2022 after seven consecutive top-flight seasons, the sacking of long-serving manager Sean Dyche in April 2022, the appointment of Vincent Kompany as manager and the immediate Championship title win in 2022-23, a subsequent relegation in 2023-24, and the appointment of Scott Parker as manager in summer 2024 with the explicit remit of an immediate Championship promotion push. The leveraged-buyout structure remains a recurring subject of supporter and journalistic scrutiny.

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Spotify founder · failed bidder for Arsenal 2021, Manchester United 2023

Daniel Ek, the Swedish entrepreneur who co-founded music-streaming service Spotify in 2006 and took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange via a direct listing in 2018, has been a recurring presence in Premier League ownership conversations without yet completing a successful acquisition. Personal net worth is approximately $4.5 billion as of 2026, fluctuating with the Spotify share price; Ek retains the dual-class voting control over the listed company despite holding well under half the economic equity. His first high-profile Premier League bid came in April 2021, when he confirmed via Twitter a written offer to buy Arsenal from Stan Kroenke, supported publicly by former Arsenal captains Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, and Dennis Bergkamp; Kroenke rejected the approach and Arsenal was explicitly stated as not for sale. His second came in early 2023, when reporting indicated Ek as one of the named candidates in the Glazer family's strategic review of Manchester United, eventually settled with Sir Jim Ratcliffe's INEOS minority deal in February 2024 rather than a full sale. Ek's wider technology investments include the deep-tech venture fund Prima Materia, with a publicly disclosed €1 billion European AI commitment and substantial stakes in Helsing, the German defence-AI startup. He remains a recurring name in any future Premier League ownership conversation, particularly around clubs in the second tier of valuations where his personal balance sheet would be sufficient to take a controlling stake without consortium partners. The Premier League's owners-and-directors test would apply to any future bid, with no public indication to date of any concerns that would block him.

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