<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=629 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=3><DIV class=mxb><DIV class=sh>Beckham tops football's rich list </DIV></DIV></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=416><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=208 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=5></TD><TD class=sibtbgf><DIV class=sihf>FOOTBALL'S RICH LIST </DIV><DIV class=o> </DIV><DIV class=mva><DIV class=bull>David Beckham £87m</DIV><DIV class=bull>Michael Owen £32m</DIV><DIV class=bull>Robbie Fowler £28m</DIV><DIV class=bull>Sol Campbell £27m</DIV><DIV class=bull>Rio Ferdinand £22m</DIV><DIV class=bull>Ryan Giggs £22m</DIV><DIV class=bull>Andriy Shevchenko £22m</DIV><DIV class=bull>Thierry Henry £21m</DIV><DIV class=bull>Wayne Rooney £20m</DIV><DIV class=bull>Michael Ballack £18m</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>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.
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.
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.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=208 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=5></TD><TD class=sibtbgf><DIV class=sihf>FOOTBALL'S TOP INVESTORS </DIV><DIV class=mva><DIV class=bull>R Abramovich (Chelsea) £10.8bn</DIV><DIV class=bull>J Lewis (Spurs) £2.1bn</DIV><DIV class=bull>D Desmond (Celtic) £1.25bn</DIV><DIV class=bull>M Glazer (Man Utd) £1.05bn</DIV><DIV class=bull>T Hemmings (Ch'ton, Preston) £900m</DIV><DIV class=bull>Sir A Sugar (Spurs) £790m</DIV><DIV class=bull>R Lerner (Villa) £789m</DIV><DIV class=bull>D Murray (Rangers) £650m</DIV><DIV class=bull>S Keswick, family (Cheltenham) £644m</DIV><DIV class=bull>D Sullivan (Birmingham) £595m</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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.
Wayne Rooney and his fiancée Coleen McLoughlin could threaten the Beckhams in future years, with their fortune up to £20m from £6m last season.
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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).
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.
It is thought that Abramovich has ploughed around £440m into Chelsea.
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=208 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=5></TD><TD class=sibtbgf><DIV class=sihf>FOOTBALL'S TOP INVESTORS </DIV><DIV class=mva><DIV class=bull>R Abramovich (Chelsea) £10.8bn</DIV><DIV class=bull>J Lewis (Spurs) £2.1bn</DIV><DIV class=bull>D Desmond (Celtic) £1.25bn</DIV><DIV class=bull>M Glazer (Man Utd) £1.05bn</DIV><DIV class=bull>T Hemmings (Ch'ton, Preston) £900m</DIV><DIV class=bull>Sir A Sugar (Spurs) £790m</DIV><DIV class=bull>R Lerner (Villa) £789m</DIV><DIV class=bull>D Murray (Rangers) £650m</DIV><DIV class=bull>S Keswick, family (Cheltenham) £644m</DIV><DIV class=bull>D Sullivan (Birmingham) £595m</DIV></DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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.
Wayne Rooney and his fiancée Coleen McLoughlin could threaten the Beckhams in future years, with their fortune up to £20m from £6m last season.
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