Mansour Tops Football Rich List
David Beckham and Sheikh Mansour have topped the FourFourTwo.com Football Rich List taking the top spots in the player and owner categories respectively.
??Beckham still leads the richest players list, despite his fortune slipping from £125m to £100m and he drops ten places from 38th to 48th in the overall Football Rich List.?
?Owner of Manchester City, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan has taken the top spot in the overall list with a fortune of £20bn, displacing QPR’s owner Lakshmi Mittal, who is worth £17bn.?
?There is a further drop in the list for Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich who lies in fourth position with a reduced fortune of £7.4bn down from £7.8bn.?
?Southampton’s owners, the Liebherr Family, lie in 5th in the overall rich list with a fortune of £3bn.?
?England manager Fabio Capello tops the manager’s rich list with a total of £36m, £8m more than surprise second entrant Roy Keane.?
?The list also suggest that Wayne Rooney’s problems off the pitch has effected his wealth as it has been estimated at £25m, down from last year’s £37m, meaning he falls from 65th to 89th overall. ?
?In the players list Rooney has also fallen, behind Rio Ferdinand, Sol Campbell and Ryan Giggs, whilst Michael Owen is in second place with a fortune of £40m.?
?Overall there are fifteen billionaires present and the Rich Listers are 11.6% up than a year ago and the value of the entire list is worth £77bn – four times the value of the Italian or Spanish leagues.
The full top 10 is:
1) £20bn – Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nayan , aged 40, Manchester City
?2) £17bn – Lakshmi Mittal and family, aged 60, QPR
?3) £8bn – Alisher Usmanov, aged 57, Arsenal
?4) £7.4bn – Roman Abramovich, aged 43, Chelsea
?5) £3bn – The Liebherr Family, Southampton
?6) £2.7bn – Joe Lewis, aged 63, Tottenham Hotspur
?7) £1.87bn – Denis O’Brien, aged 52, Celtic
?8) £1.85bn – Stanley Kroenke, aged 62, Arsenal
?9) £1.53bn – Malcolm Glazer and family, Manchester United
?10) £1.4bn – Bernie Ecclestone, aged 79, QPR?
The Top Ten Managers:?
?1) £36m – Fabio Capello, aged 64, England (last year £30m)
?2) £28m – Roy Keane, aged 39, Ipswich (last year £27m)
?3) £26m – Sir Alex Ferguson, aged 68, Manchester United (last year £22m)
?4) £21m – Carlo Ancelotti, aged 51, Chelsea (last year £17m)
?5) £17m – Arsene Wenger, aged 61, Arsenal (last year £15m)
?6=) £15m – Sven-Goran Eriksson, aged 62, Leicester City (last year £15m)
?6=) £15m – Roberto Mancini, aged 46, Manchester City Age 46 (New entry)
?8=) £10m – Mark Hughes, aged 46, Fulham (last year £8m)
?8=) £10m – Harry Redknapp, aged 63 Tottenham Hotspur (last year £10m)
?8= ) £10m – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, aged 37, Manchester United (New entry)? ? ?
The Top Ten Players:?
?1) £100m – David Beckham, aged 35 & 36, England (last year: £125m, 1st)
?2) £40m – Michael Owen, aged 30, Manchester United (last year £38m, 2nd)
?3) £34m – Rio Ferdinand, aged 31, Manchester United (last year £30m, 4th)
?4) £31m – Sol Campbell, aged 36, Newcastle United (re-entry)
?5) £27m – Ryan Giggs, aged 36, Manchester United (last year £24m, 5th)
?6) £25m – Wayne Rooney, Manchester United, aged 24 (last year £37m, 3rd)
?7=) £22m – Steven Gerrard, Liverpool, aged 30 (last year £20m, 8th)
?7=) £22m – Frank Lampard, Chelsea, aged 32 (last year £21m, 7th)
?9) £19m – John Terry, Chelsea, aged 29 (last year £18m, 9th)
10=) £18m – Didier Drogba, Chelsea, aged 32 (last year £16m, 10th)
?10= ) £18m – Patrick Vieira, Manchester City, aged 34 (New entry)
