British football's rich list

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For the owners, Roman down to third. Hicks at 16th with 700M.

 

For the players, Beckham on top with 125M. Owen second with 40M. Robbie tied 4th with 28M. Stevie G at 10th with 19M. Heskey at 19th with 12M.

 

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Manchester City's hugely wealthy owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan has toppled Roman Abramovich to head British football's rich list.

 

Sheikh Mansour, a member of the royal family of Abu Dhabi, has a personal fortune of £15billion according to the Football Rich List, researched and published by FourFourTwo magazine.

 

The 38-year-old bought City in the summer, while Abramovich, Chelsea's Russian owner, has slipped to third in the list - his wealth is estimated at £7billion and he has been said to have lost over £3billion in the economic downturn.

 

He has also been overtaken in the list by Lakshmi Mittal, the 58-year-old Indian industrialist worth £12.5billion who joined Formula One's Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore investing in Queen's Park Rangers.

 

David Beckham remains the richest player associated with British football - his personal fortune of £125million being streets ahead of his closest rivals Michael Owen (£40million) and Wayne Rooney (£35million).

 

Beckham is 38th in the overall list, while England head coach Fabio Capello is at number 73 worth an estimated £25million with a £6million-a-year contract and a £10million private art collection.

 

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is at number 78 in the list (£22million) and Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger at number 92 (£14million).

 

Celtic shareholder Dermot Desmond, the Irish entrepreneur, is the richest person in Scottish football - he is eighth on the list and said to be worth £1.2billion. Rangers chairman Sir David Murray is 19th on the list, worth £600million.

 

Despite the huge fortunes of the wealthiest owners, football finance experts fear British football's bubble may be about to burst.

 

Professor Tom Cannon told the magazine: ``Season-ticket numbers will probably be down by about 10% but renewals will be down by at least 15 or 20%. That's where the problems will be as you go down the divisions.''

 

Rich List Top 20

1 Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Man City) £15billion

2 Lakshmi Mittal and family (QPR) £12.5bn

3 Roman Abramovich (Chelsea) £7bn

4 Joe Lewis (Tottenham) £2.5bn

5 Bernie and Slavica Ecclestone (QPR) £2.4bn

6 Stanley Kroenke (Arsenal) £2.245bn

7 Alisher Usmanov (Arsenal) £1.5bn

8= Lord Grantchester & the Moores Family (Everton) £1.2bn

8= Dermot Desmond (Celtic) £1.2bn

10= Lord Ashcroft (Watford) £1.1bn

10= Malcolm Glazer and family (Man Utd) £1.1bn

12 Simon Keswick (Cheltenham) £966m

13 Trevor Hemmings (Preston) £900m

14 Mike Ashley (Newcastle) £800m

15 Randy Lerner (Aston Villa) £750m

16 Tom Hicks (Liverpool) £700m

17 The Walker Family (Blackburn) £660m

18 Mohammed Al Fayed (Fulham) £650m

19 Sir David Murray (Rangers) £600m

20 Steve Morgan (Wolves) £400m

 

Top 20 players: (overall position in the main list in brackets)

1 David Beckham £125m (38)

2 Michael Owen £40m (56=)

3 Wayne Rooney £35m (61)

4= Rio Ferdinand £28m (69=)

4= Robbie Fowler £28m (69=)

4= Sol Campbell £28m (69=)

7 Ryan Giggs £23m (77)

8= Michael Ballack £20m (80=)

8= Frank Lampard £20m (80=)

10 Steven Gerrard £19m (86)

11 Cristiano Ronaldo £18m (87)

12 John Terry £17m (88)

13 Didier Drogba £15m (89)

14= Nicolas Anelka £14m (92=)

14= Damien Duff £14m (92=)

16= Dimitar Berbatov £13m (96=)

16= Ashley and Cheryl Cole £13m (96=)

16= Fernando Torres £13m (96=)

19 = Emile Heskey £12m (100)

20 Gary Neville £11.75m (101)

[LondonLiverpoolFan]

Despite the huge fortunes of the wealthiest owners, football finance experts fear British football's bubble may be about to burst.

 

Professor Tom Cannon told the magazine: ``Season-ticket numbers will probably be down by about 10% but renewals will be down by at least 15 or 20%. That's where the problems will be as you go down the divisions.''

 

Why do the media keep trotting out that c*nt?

Edited January 7, 2009 by LondonLiverpoolFan

[Archangel]

What position does Cheryl Cole play then?

[Bootle Buck]

I read on Wiki that the lovely Mrs Rooney is worth 8 million personally. What is the fecking world coming to.

[CaptainXabi]

How does Rooney have so much money?

[Tosh]

He saves a fortune by not buying beauty care products

[Hassony]

What position does Cheryl Cole play then?

 

Wierd that they only used her name, but no mention of posh or any other WAG

 

Fowler must have been affected badly by the house prices going down

[Flasher]

How does Rooney have so much money?

 

Nike, Coke, EA Sports etc etc.

[CaptainXabi]

Nike, Coke, EA Sports etc etc.

But don't they all get endorsements? I mean Owen's been endorsing things for 10+ years and is barely beating Rooney. And how is he beating Placcy by so much?

[Flasher]

But don't they all get endorsements? I mean Owen's been endorsing things for 10+ years and is barely beating Rooney. And how is he beating Placcy by so much?

 

1. I suspect the lists are wrong.

2. Nobody cares about Owen any more, compared to Rooney is hot property still, and sells his soul at every opportunity. OK magaznie etc.

[CaptainXabi]

1. I suspect the lists are wrong.

2. Nobody cares about Owen any more, compared to Rooney is hot property still, and sells his soul at every opportunity. OK magaznie etc.

On 2, I agree, but Owen must have been getting all sorts of endorsement money after WC 98 through the Real Madrid stint. Not to mention he's been on 100K per week for the best part of 5 years now, and was 60K per week for 3 years before that.

 

Anyway, I agree about the lists being wrong.

[Hassony]

On 2, I agree, but Owen must have been getting all sorts of endorsement money after WC 98 through the Real Madrid stint. Not to mention he's been on 100K per week for the best part of 5 years now, and was 60K per week for 3 years before that.

 

Owen probably lost millions on gambling