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Gunners lead the way in latest Rich List

Wednesday 07 October 2009 11:30

Premier League side Arsenal lead the way when it comes to entrants into FourFourTwo.com's Football Rich List 2009/10.

Seven individuals on the list are in some way involved with the North Londoners, from manager Arsene Wenger (99th place, £15 million) to billionaire shareholding duo Alisher Usmanov (9th place, £1.3bn) and Stan Kroenke (£2.079bn).

The seven Arsenal representatives have a total worth of £3.914 billion, putting them ahead of arch rivals Tottenham Hotspur, whose four representatives - including chairman Daniel Levy (82nd, £25 million) - total £2.72 billion.

However the combined wealth of both North London clubs' 11 entrants is still less than the personal wealth of top three Roman Abramovich (Chelsea, £7.8bn), Sheikh Mansour (Manchester City, £17bn) and Lakshmi Mittal (QPR, £18.4bn).

Four of Chelsea's six entrants are current members of the playing staff (Frank Lampard, John Terry, Didier Drogba and Michael Ballack) who have a combined wealth of £77 million.

Manchester United also have a four players in the top 100, with Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand, Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney being joined in the list by United manager Sir Alex Ferguson (86th, £22 million) and owner Malcolm Glazer (7th, £1.5bn).

Controversial Liverpool pair Tom Hicks and George Gillett (joint 16th, £500m each) and skipper Steven Gerrard (90th, £20 million) are the only Anfield representatives on the list.

Despite being one of, if not the, richest club in the world, Manchester City only have one entrant - although Sheikh Mansour is in second place with a tidy £17bn in his back pocket.

He'll need a pretty sturdy belt, then.

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October 9, 2009 15:10

40000thheadman said:

As I've already commented on the 'How we count the beans' thread (no response yet), what about Saints?

This from The Times on July 9: "Markus Liebherr, 61, was born in Germany and is a member of a wealthy Swiss-based business family who specialise in construction machinery, although he operates independently through his own group of companies, the Mali Group. Liebherr, who paid an estimated £13 million for the club, is understood to have personal wealth of €3 billion (£2.6 billion)."

We've gone through years of misery as the club has sunk to new lows (pun intended). Now we have our very own billionaire owner I was looking forward to seeing Saints in the top 10 of your Rich List...

So why isn't Liebherr anywhere in the list?

October 10, 2009 12:21