Championship - Mittal tops Rich List

Eurosport - Wed, 07 Oct 12:54:00 2009

QPR shareholder Lakshmi Mittal is the richest man in British football, according to new research.

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The London-based Indian steel magnate, who owns a 20 per cent stake in the Loftus Road club, is worth an estimated £18.4billion in the 2009 FourFourTwo.com Rich List.

The annually-published list ranks Mittal above last year's leader, Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, who has a fortune of £17billion.

Mittal has largely taken a back seat to owners Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone since investing in QPR in December 2007 but he would appear the real financial power at the club.

Formula One supremo Ecclestone, however, is ranked eighth in the list with £1.466billion.

Third is Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich with £7.8billion - with the Russian £800million better off than he was last year.

British football Rich List:

1. Lakshmi Mittal (QPR) - £18.4bn

2. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan (Man City) - £17bn

3. Roman Abramovich (Chelsea) - £7.8bn

4. Joe Lewis (Tottenham) - £2.5bn

5. Stan Kroenke (Arsenal) - £2.079bn

6. Denis O'Brien (Celtic) - £1.73bn

7. Malcolm Glazer and family (Man Utd) - £1.5bn

8. Bernie Ecclestone (QPR) - £1.466bn

9. Alisher Usmanov (Arsenal) - £1.3bn

10. Lord Grantchester and family (Everton) £1.2bn

11. Lord Ashcroft (Watford) - £1.1bn

12. Dermot Desmond (Celtic) - £1bn

13. Mike Ashley (Newcastle) - £900m

14. Randy Lerner (Aston Villa) - £800m

15. Mohamed al-Fayed (Fulham) - £650m

16. Tom Hicks (Liverpool) - £500m

16. George Gillett (Liverpool) - £500m

18. Sir David Murray (Rangers) - £450m

19. The Walker Family (Blackburn) - £400m

19. Peter Coates (Stoke City) - £400m

PA Sport

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  1. Footballs not a sport, its just businesses competing.­ They prey on naive supporters like yourselves, who have­ fooled themselves into thinking they are somehow­ participating in the game. Dont kid yourselves. Spend­ the money on your families and have a sunday kick­ around instead. It would be more useful.

    From Robert S, on Sun 11 Oct 5:15PM
  2. This Mittal guy is so bloody ugly ......... why is it­ that some many rich tycoons are fat and nasty?

    From xcomveteran, on Fri 9 Oct 10:31AM
  3. and i'm exremley richer than you...

    From walt jabasco, on Thu 8 Oct 11:47PM
  4. Leave them be(the earners)and get on with your own­ life..why waste it on others when you can spend your­ time on yourself,grow up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!you­ mutanoids!!!!!!!!!!!

    From NOA, on Thu 8 Oct 6:42PM
  5. VLADAMIR ROMANOV?

    From a.kelly655, on Thu 8 Oct 4:47PM
  6. Id love to get paid for doing nothing all day, just­ giving a few orders to there underpaid joey's and­ were in a recession, why arent footballers taking a cut­ in this climate like the rest of us, getting paid­ millions to kick sumthing made of leather about they­ arent role models cos they complain of deadlegs half­ the time and wont play cos the crowd shouts nasty­ things at them, you get paid enough so take the­ rubbish, I wunt complain f I had millions of pounds to­ kick a ball about and do abit of modelling.... few­ hours a week.......

    From damian.lazarus, on Thu 8 Oct 4:41PM
  7. Id love to get paid for doing nothing all day, just­ giving a few orders to there underpaid joey's and­ were in a recession, why arent footballers taking a cut­ in this climate like the rest of us, getting paid­ millions to kick sumthing made of leather about they­ arent role models cos they complain of deadlegs half­ the time and wont play cos the crowd shouts nasty­ things at them, you get paid enough so take the @#$%, I­ wunt complain f I had millions of pounds to kick a ball­ about and do abit of modelling.... few hours a­ week.......

    From damian.lazarus, on Thu 8 Oct 4:36PM
  8. Would all those people asking for the 5,10,or 15% to be­ given to charity like to ask the Pope and all those at­ the Vatican, if they would like to give some off the­ welth that they have accumilated from around the world.­ All they do is ask everyone to give, give and give. It­ would be nice to see them give all their welth to help­ the world and then maybe others might be willing to­ give 5,10, or 15% of their money.

    From iastowell, on Thu 8 Oct 1:59PM
  9. I know that they have goto have money for doing there­ job but why so much, do they really need all that­ money, will they ever use all that. I know that it may­ sound silly what I have just said. Me and my dad could­ do with a million of what they earn.

    From ricky, on Thu 8 Oct 1:54PM
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    MODS you's know my email address i demand to know­ why my first comment was invalid

    From shay, on Thu 8 Oct 1:52PM
  11. why was my comment invaled there was no bad words or­ anything like it so why

    From shay, on Thu 8 Oct 1:50PM
  12. i had no idea the 2 celtic directors were 4th £3.b ­ collectivly....so why dont they go out and buy some­ decent players

    From bobby1.penman, on Thu 8 Oct 1:31PM
  13. Manchester city are not owned by an individual they are­ owned by an arab company with assets of over 555­ BILLION.

    From stephen, on Thu 8 Oct 1:26PM
  14. What the report doesn't say is that the Sheikh­ Mansour family fortune is said to be worth around­ £560bn......

    From robsayer, on Thu 8 Oct 1:23PM
  15. How about free entry now and then, what have you got to­ lose big shots!

    From simpsonbrad, on Thu 8 Oct 1:20PM
  16. Go tell the media and the clubs and the sponsors and­ the players and the WAGs ..... maybe the game itself­ just isn't that interesting anymore and only exists­ on the scale it does because of all the hype and­ MONEY!!

    From leelecornu, on Thu 8 Oct 1:20PM
  17. so where is Markus Liebherr, the Southampton owner ? I­ thought he was worth about £3b

    From markbiddlecombe067, on Thu 8 Oct 1:15PM
  18. The Money in football does not annoy me, Its the­ constant printing of rich lists when I would rather be­ reading about what is a happening in the game itself! ­ This is the SPORTS page not the MONEY page!!

    From rock0jest, on Thu 8 Oct 1:06PM
  19. ....er, yes, he was especially charitable to young­ children (allegedly.)

    From leelecornu, on Thu 8 Oct 1:05PM
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    To me, the richest person in the world is Michael­ Jackson Cos' the poor benefitted from his­ generousity!

    From Donatus, on Thu 8 Oct 1:01PM
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