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Tuesday briefing: EFL Championship clubs more worried about state of finances and more reliant on owners

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9 August 2022 - 3:30 AM

A new report has found that English Football League clubs are increasingly concerned about the state of their finances and more reliant on owners for cash.

In the latest annual survey of football club finance directors from the global accounting firm BDO, all Premier League clubs it spoke to said their financial position was either “very healthy” (71 per cent) or “could be better but not bad” (29 per cent).

However, the biggest change from previous years was among EFL Cham

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