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Thinking about the common ownership structures for premier leagues, you can see that it might be a complex exercise to identify the ultimate owner, and that the requirement to identify ultimate owners is a significant departure from the way the Premier League currently identifies the person who controls the club. That is far more intrusive and onerous a test than any in the Premier League Handbook or UEFA regulations. It permits state control over ownership of football clubs through the influence clause, which the regulator has to follow.