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Clubs owned by oil-rich states are the biggest revenue growers of the decade

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Getty Images | Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (center) of Abu Dhabi bought Manchester City in 2008 for approximately £210 million.

PSG, boosted by their Qatari ownership, managed to increase their revenue by a whopping 671 per cent from 2010 to 2019, while Manchester City's UAE owners oversaw a 328 per cent increase.

Arsenal had the lowest revenue growth among the Premier League's "Big Six" clubs, and the top Italian clubs were generally underperforming - with the exception of Juventus.

3 January 2020 - 1:03 PM

By Emil Gjerding Nielson

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