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| Beckham tops football's rich list | Beckham tops football's rich list |
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| David Beckham is British football's richest player with a personal fortune of £87m, according to a new poll. | David Beckham is British football's richest player with a personal fortune of £87m, according to a new poll. |
| Beckham's wealth is almost three times that of the next richest player, Michael Owen, who is worth £32m. | Beckham's wealth is almost three times that of the next richest player, Michael Owen, who is worth £32m. |
| Robbie Fowler has amassed £28m, followed by Sol Campbell (£27m), Rio Ferdinand, Ryan Giggs and Andriy Shevchenko (all £22m). | Robbie Fowler has amassed £28m, followed by Sol Campbell (£27m), Rio Ferdinand, Ryan Giggs and Andriy Shevchenko (all £22m). |
| Roman Abramovich is comfortably the richest investor in British football, with a fortune of £10.8bn. | Roman Abramovich is comfortably the richest investor in British football, with a fortune of £10.8bn. |
| Despite his enormous wealth, Abramovich is only the second richest man in the country, behind steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, worth an estimated £13.2bn. | Despite his enormous wealth, Abramovich is only the second richest man in the country, behind steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, worth an estimated £13.2bn. |
| It is thought that Abramovich has ploughed around £440m into Chelsea. | It is thought that Abramovich has ploughed around £440m into Chelsea. |
| FOOTBALL'S TOP INVESTORS R Abramovich (Chelsea) £10.8bnJ Lewis (Spurs) 2.1bnD Desmond (Celtic) £1.25bnM Glazer (Man Utd) £1.05bnT Hemmings (Ch'ton, Preston) £900mSir A Sugar (Spurs) £790mR Lerner (Villa) £789mD Murray (Rangers) £650mS Keswick, family (Cheltenham) £644mD Sullivan (Birmingham) £595m | FOOTBALL'S TOP INVESTORS R Abramovich (Chelsea) £10.8bnJ Lewis (Spurs) 2.1bnD Desmond (Celtic) £1.25bnM Glazer (Man Utd) £1.05bnT Hemmings (Ch'ton, Preston) £900mSir A Sugar (Spurs) £790mR Lerner (Villa) £789mD Murray (Rangers) £650mS Keswick, family (Cheltenham) £644mD Sullivan (Birmingham) £595m |
| After Abramovich the next richest investors in British football are Spurs stakeholder Joe Lewis (£2.1bn) and Celtic shareholder Dermot Desmond (£1.25bn), according to the survey in FourFourTwo magazine. | After Abramovich the next richest investors in British football are Spurs stakeholder Joe Lewis (£2.1bn) and Celtic shareholder Dermot Desmond (£1.25bn), according to the survey in FourFourTwo magazine. |
| Beckham earns £4.4m per season at Real Madrid and has a number of lucrative sponsorship deals that earned him £19m last year. | Beckham earns £4.4m per season at Real Madrid and has a number of lucrative sponsorship deals that earned him £19m last year. |
| Wayne Rooney and his fiancée Coleen McLoughlin could threaten the Beckhams in future years, with their fortune up to £20m from £6m last season. |