English football’s long financial boom shows no signs of slowing with the Premier League forging ahead of its European rivals last year, Deloitte has revealed.
According to the accountancy firm’s 27th annual football finance review, the European market was worth £21.9billion in 2016/17, with the ‘big five’ leagues of England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain accounting for £12.6billion of that, a nine per cent rise on the previous season.