Beckham tops football's rich list

zocoss

6 Dec 06, 22:22

David Beckham is British football's richest player with a personal fortune of Â£87m, according to a new poll.
Beckham's wealth is almost three times that of the next richest player, Michael Owen, who is worth Â£32m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

used

6 Dec 06, 22:32

owen spending more than half the time on the injury table can be second on the list?? Rolling Eyes

used

6 Dec 06, 22:35

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zocoss

6 Dec 06, 22:48

Originally posted by used:
owen spending more than half the time on the injury table can be second on the list??

yeah cos he has some image rights, promotions kind of thing just like beck... and he earns more than $5m a year from football for the last 3,4 yrs already... his weekly salary is about $110,000 pounds... even tho he is not playing he is still being paid. Wink

Fowler has no image rights thing going but he has made some wise business investments... Smile

zocoss

6 Dec 06, 22:50

And to think Beck's wife Posh is more richer than him... Mr. Green

a-Lost-9uY

6 Dec 06, 23:11

he top the list,
to me is normal leh..