Fowler 3rd in Rich list

[DeeGame]

Beckham tops football's rich list

David Beckham is British football's richest player with a personal fortune of £87m, according to a new poll.

Beckham's wealth is almost three times that of the next richest player, Michael Owen, who is worth £32m.

Robbie Fowler has amassed £28m, followed by Sol Campbell (£27m), Rio Ferdinand, Ryan Giggs and Andriy Shevchenko (all £22m).

FOOTBALL'S RICH LIST

David Beckham £87m
Michael Owen £32m
Robbie Fowler £28m surprised to see him there
Sol Campbell £27m
Rio Ferdinand £22m
Ryan Giggs £22m
Andriy Shevchenko £22m
Thierry Henry £21m
Wayne Rooney £20m
Michael Ballack £18m

Roman Abramovich is comfortably the richest investor in British football, with a fortune of £10.8bn.

Despite his enormous wealth, Abramovich is only the second richest man in the country, behind steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, worth an estimated £13.2bn.

It is thought that Abramovich has ploughed around £440m into Chelsea.

FOOTBALL'S TOP INVESTORS
R Abramovich (Chelsea) £10.8bn
J Lewis (Spurs) 2.1bn
D Desmond (Celtic) £1.25bn
M Glazer (Man Utd) £1.05bn
T Hemmings (Ch'ton, Preston) £900m
Sir A Sugar (Spurs) £790m
R Lerner (Villa) £789m
D Murray (Rangers) £650m
S Keswick, family (Cheltenham) £644m
D Sullivan (Birmingham) £595m

After Abramovich the next richest investors in British football are Spurs stakeholder Joe Lewis (£2.1bn) and Celtic shareholder Dermot Desmond (£1.25bn), according to the survey in FourFourTwo magazine.

Beckham earns £4.4m per season at Real Madrid and has a number of lucrative sponsorship deals that earned him £19m last year.

Wayne Rooney and his fiancée Coleen McLoughlin could threaten the Beckhams in future years, with their fortune up to £20m from £6m last season.


I wonder where Mr Dubai will go in the investors list?

[Rich]

Shrewd investor is our Robbie...

[paulcooper4]

we all live in a robbie fowler house...

[Rich]

We know you do....

[paulcooper4]

We know you do....

youre the one living in manc land

[Bob]

we all live in a robbie fowler house...

True. Not me, but all scousers

[Rohan]

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

His fortune is estimated to be in the region of $14 billion. If he were listed on Forbes' list of The World's Richest People, he would rank 23rd, but Forbes does not list him because it is impossible to determine what belongs to him and what belongs to his government, and also so much of his money is tied up in major investments all over the globe.

Abramovich is ranked 11th with $18.2 bilion so the Sheikh would slot in at number 2.

R

[thesilverfoxlfc]

Yeah Robbie is wise with his money.

I taught Bergkamp was the richest or behind Beckam but is this probably doesnt include retired players

[Bender]

robbie is making plans to buy albert square and coronation street as well

[DeeGame]

robbie is making plans to buy albert square and coronation street as well

what

[Mumsafan]

Why on earth are people surprised to see Robbie up there? I would have thought he was above Owen myself. No doubt he will be one day.

[Bender]

what

cmon man you telling me you didn't get the joke

[DeeGame]

cmon man you telling me you didn't get the joke

that was a joke

[disco]

we all live in a robbie fowler house...

[Owen20]

Why on earth are people surprised to see Robbie up there? I would have thought he was above Owen myself. No doubt he will be one day.

Not surprised in the least, myself.

Mind you... I did know about his many properties.

He's VERY close to Owen now, and I think you could be right about him overtaking, Mum's.