Football Rich List 2009

I’m not a big football fan but I do like to watch the odd match on tv if it’s ever on.

Now football players are supposed to be a bit thick, but from where I’m standing they’re actually very bright business people. Where else can you go to work everyday, kick a ball around, fall over and get paid £100,000 a week for the privledge?

The FourFourTwo magazine recently published the following Rich Lists for both players and club owners. The results are fascinating, though a little unsurprising.

Football players

Player	Club	Riches £m
Source: FourFourTwo magazine
David Beckham	LA Galaxy	125
Michael Owen	Newcastle United	40
Wayne Rooney	Manchester United	35
Rio Ferdinand	Manchester United	28
Robbie Fowler	unattached	28
Sol Campbell	Portsmouth	28
Ryan Giggs	Manchester United	21
Michael Ballack	Chelsea	20
Frank Lampard	Chelsea	20
Steven Gerrard	Liverpool	19
Cristiano Ronaldo	Manchester United	18
John Terry	Chelsea	17
Didier Drogba	Chelsea	15
Nicolas Anelka	Chelsea	14
Damien Duff	Newcastle United	14
Dimitar Berbatov	Manchester United	13
Ashley and Cheryl Cole	Chelsea	13
Fernando Torres	Liverpool	13
Emile Heskey	Wigan Athletic	12
Gary Neville	Manchester United	11.75

Football clubs

Owner	Club	Riches £bn
Source: FourFourTwo magazine
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan	Manchester City	15
Lakshmi Mittal	QPR	12.5
Roman Abramovich	Chelsea	7
Joe Lewis	Tottenham Hotspur	2.5
Bernie and Slavica Ecclestone	QPR	2.4
Stan Kroenke	Arsenal	2.24
Alisher Usmanov	Arsenal	1.5
Lord Granchester and the Moores family	Everton	1.2
Dermot Desmond	Celtic	1.2
Lord Ashcroft	Watford	1.1
Malcolm Glazer and family	Manchester United	1.1
Simon Keswick	Cheltenham Town	0.97
Trevor Hemmings	PNE	0.9
Mike Ashley	Newcastle United	0.8
Randy Lerner	Aston Villa	0.75
Tom Hicks	Liverpool	0.7
The Walker family	Blackburn Rovers	0.66
Mohammed Al Fayed	Fulham	0.65
Sir David Murray	Rangers	0.6
Steve Morgan	Wolverhampton Wanderers	0.4

Now if only I didn’t have two left feet…

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