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...Lower level club and tournament players, in contrast, have shown little enthusiasm, as the general view is that the normal game is hard enough....
...Let’s say a club owner had repeatedly overspent on players, then failed to pay the bills and racked up huge amounts of debt....
...For the tournament players will wear shirts with their names on the back, as has been common in football for many years....
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...In the complicated accounting of football clubs, profits and losses on purchases and sales of players may be excluded from that metric....
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...cut an agent could take from a player’s salary....
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...But its national side is languishing sixth in the world rankings and its top clubs are losing an average of £4mn each a year....
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