{"id":2746,"date":"2009-01-07T10:47:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballfashion.wordpress.com\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2009-01-07T10:47:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T14:47:40","slug":"the-british-football-rich-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballfashion.org\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/07\/the-british-football-rich-list\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2009 British Football Rich List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg=http:\/\/digg.com\/soccer\/The_2009_British_Football_Rich_List]Chelsea&#8217;s billionaire owner Roman Abramovich has been displaced from the summit of the British Football Rich List, published on Wednesday by FourFourTwo magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Abramovich has lost \u00a33 bn in the current recession and is now worth \u00a37 bn. That&#8217;s less than half the wealth of the new man at the top of the list, Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, who is estimated to be worth \u00a315bn.<\/p>\n<p>The people on the sixth Football Rich List, researched and published annually by FourFourTwo, are worth a total of \u00a361 billion. The list includes 11 billionaires and 25 new entries.<\/p>\n<p>Although some of the new entries are foreign \u2014 like Sheikh Mansour and the new No.2 Lakshmi Mittal, who has joined Formula 1 entrepreneurs Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore in investing in QPR \u2014 only a third of those on the list are from overseas, with the 64 Brits including three WAGs.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/fourfourtwo.com\/contentimages\/gallery\/items\/Mansour.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"212\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Manchester City Big Guns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<p>England manager Fabio Capello is also a new entry. The Italian is worth \u00a325 million and is joint 73rd on the list, with a six million pounds a year contract and a 10 million pounds private art collection.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/fourfourtwo.com\/contentimages\/gallery\/items\/Ecclestone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"212\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ecclestones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson is at number 78 with \u00a322 million while Arsenal\u2019s Arsene Wenger is at 92 with \u00a314 million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Top 20 on the Football Rich List are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 Shekh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nayan (Manchester City) \u00a315bn<br \/>\n2 Lakshmi Mittal &amp; family (QPR) \u00a3125bn<br \/>\n3 Roman Abramovich (Chelsea) \u00a37bn<br \/>\n4 Joe Lewis (Tottenham Hotspur) \u00a325bn<br \/>\n5 Bernie &amp; Slavica Ecclestone (QPR) \u00a324bn<br \/>\n6 Stanley Kroenke (Arsenal) \u00a32245bn<br \/>\n7 Alisher Usmanov (Arsenal) \u00a315bn<br \/>\n8 Lord Grantchester &amp; The Moores Family (Everton) \u00a312bn<br \/>\n8 Dermot Desmond (Celtic) \u00a312bn<br \/>\n10 Lord Ashcroft (Watford) \u00a311bn<br \/>\n10 Malcolm Glazer &amp; family (Manchester United) \u00a311bn<br \/>\n12 Simon Keswick (Cheltenham Town) \u00a3966m<br \/>\n13 Trevor Hemmings (Preston North End) \u00a3900m<br \/>\n14 Mike Ashley (Newcastle United) \u00a3800m<br \/>\n15 Randy Lerner (Aston Villa) \u00a3750m<br \/>\n16 Tom Hicks (Liverpool) \u00a3700m<br \/>\n17 The Walker Family (Blackburn Rovers) \u00a3660m<br \/>\n18 Mohammed al-Fayed (Fulham) \u00a3650m<br \/>\n19 Sir David Murray (Glasgow Rangers) \u00a3600m<br \/>\n20 Steve Morgan (Wolves) \u00a3400m<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 20 Players the Football Rich List are (position in main list in brackets):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 David Beckham \u00a3125m (38 )<br \/>\n2 Michael Owen \u00a340m (56=)<br \/>\n3 Wayne Rooney \u00a335m (61)<br \/>\n4 Rio Ferdinand \u00a328m (69=)<br \/>\n4 Robbie Fowler \u00a328m (69=)<br \/>\n4 Sol Campbell \u00a328m (69=)<br \/>\n7 Ryan Giggs \u00a323m (77)<br \/>\n8 Michael Ballack \u00a320m (80=)<br \/>\n8 Frank Lampard \u00a320m (80=)<br \/>\n10 Steven Gerrard \u00a319m (86)<br \/>\n11 Cristiano Ronaldo \u00a318m (87)<br \/>\n12 John Terry \u00a317m (88 )<br \/>\n13 Didier Drogba \u00a315m (89)<br \/>\n14 Nicolas Anelka \u00a314m (92=)<br \/>\n14 Damien Duff \u00a314m (92=)<br \/>\n16 Dimitar Berbatov \u00a313m (96=)<br \/>\n16 Ashley and Cheryl Cole \u00a313m (96=)<br \/>\n16 Fernando Torres \u00a313m (96=)<br \/>\n19 \u00a0Emile Heskey \u00a312m (100)<br \/>\n20 Gary Neville \u00a311.75m (101)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scripts.affiliatefuture.com\/AFClick.asp?affiliateID=132648&amp;merchantID=972&amp;programmeID=3041&amp;mediaID=15727&amp;tracking=&amp;url=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" style=\"border:0 none;\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.kitbag.com\/stores\/kitbag_4_5\/_artwork\/english\/home\/tlm-a1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg=http:\/\/digg.com\/soccer\/The_2009_British_Football_Rich_List]Chelsea&#8217;s billionaire owner Roman Abramovich has been displaced from the summit of the British Football Rich List, published on Wednesday by FourFourTwo magazine. Abramovich has lost \u00a33 bn in the current recession and is now worth \u00a37 bn. That&#8217;s less than half the wealth of the new man at the top of the list, Manchester [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,57,36],"tags":[2755,667],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-football-league","category-english-premier-league","category-scottish-premier","tag-english-premier-league","tag-football-league"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The 2009 British Football Rich List - FOOTBALL FASHION<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/footballfashion.org\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/07\/the-british-football-rich-list\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The 2009 British Football Rich List - FOOTBALL FASHION\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[digg=http:\/\/digg.com\/soccer\/The_2009_British_Football_Rich_List]Chelsea&#8217;s billionaire owner Roman Abramovich has been displaced from the summit of the British Football Rich List, published on Wednesday by FourFourTwo magazine. 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