Eurosport - Wed, 07 Oct 12:54:00 2009
QPR shareholder Lakshmi Mittal is the richest man in British football, according to new research.
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
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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.
This Mittal guy is so bloody ugly ......... why is it that some many rich tycoons are fat and nasty?
and i'm exremley richer than you...
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!!!!!!!!!!!
VLADAMIR ROMANOV?
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.......
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.......
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.
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.
MODS you's know my email address i demand to know why my first comment was invalid
why was my comment invaled there was no bad words or anything like it so why
i had no idea the 2 celtic directors were 4th £3.b collectivly....so why dont they go out and buy some decent players
Manchester city are not owned by an individual they are owned by an arab company with assets of over 555 BILLION.
What the report doesn't say is that the Sheikh Mansour family fortune is said to be worth around £560bn......
How about free entry now and then, what have you got to lose big shots!
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!!
so where is Markus Liebherr, the Southampton owner ? I thought he was worth about £3b
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!!
....er, yes, he was especially charitable to young children (allegedly.)
To me, the richest person in the world is Michael Jackson Cos' the poor benefitted from his generousity!
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