City owner top of football rich list

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Sheikh Mansour

Wednesday, 6 October 2010


Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour has returned to the top of football's rich list, according to the latest figures from FourFourTwo magazine.


The 40-year-old's vast fortune is estimated to have risen by £3billion, moving him back in front of QPR shareholder Lakshmi Mittal, whose fortune has dipped to £17bn.


Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, whose wealth once dwarfed all other fortunes on the list, has now dropped as far as fourth - displaced by Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov, whose estate has exploded to rise from £1.3bn to £8bn.



Usmanov's fellow Arsenal shareholder Stanley Kroenke is eighth on the list with a fortune of #1.85bn, while Mittal's partner at QPR, Bernie Ecclestone, also makes it into the top 10 with his #1.4bn estate.


The controversial owners of Manchester United, the Glazer family, are ranked ninth with an estimated fortune of £1.53bn.


Others figuring in the top 10 are Southampton owners the Liebherr family, fifth with a fortune of £3bn and Tottenham owner Joe Lewis, sixth at £2.7bn. There is an Irish presence with Denis O'Brien, seventh with a fortune of £1.87bn.


Tom Hicks and George Gillett, whose ownership of Liverpool could come to an end if the club's other directors are able to force through a sale, do not feature on this year's list at all.


Having been listed joint 16th last year with an estimated £500million each, analysts said it was now impossible to verify their worth as the turmoil continues at Anfield.


Among players, David Beckham still tops the list by a huge margin, but his worth is said to have dropped from £125m to £100m, pushing him from 38th overall to 49th.


Wayne Rooney, meanwhile, has dropped from third to sixth.


Michael Owen is second on the players' list with a fortune of £40m, £6m more than Manchester United team-mate Ferdinand.

England boss Fabio Capello tops the managers' list with a fortune of £36m, ahead of Ipswich boss Roy Keane, whose £28m fortune was largely accumulated as a player at Manchester United.


He sits one place above his old boss, Sir Alex Ferguson, third, with a fortune of £26m.


New Leicester boss Sven-Goran Eriksson is sixth with a £15m fortune, level with Manchester City's Roberto Mancini.


That puts him £5m ahead of his predecessor at Eastlands, Fulham manager Mark Hughes, who is joint eighth with Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp and Manchester United reserve-team boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
 
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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, whose wealth once dwarfed all other fortunes on the list, has now dropped as far as fourth - displaced by Arsenal shareholder Alisher Usmanov, whose estate has exploded to rise from £1.3bn to £8bn.
 
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