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10. Bernie Ecclestone £1.4bn

QPR Age 79 (Last year £1.466bn, 8th)
F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone will feel 10 feet tall that QPR are staring down on the rest of the Championship. True, Ecclestone spent a mere £150,000 on a 15% stake in the Hoops, which is small beer for a man of his stature (and doesn't really reflect the £20m total cost of the takeover including debt), that was three long years ago, and he isn't a man accustomed to waiting long for what he wants.
Ecclestone made his teetering piles of money from F1 racing. He took to the sport in 1949 but an accident two years later ended his driving and started his career. Moving into team management, he eventually took over the whole of F1. The modern sport is virtually Ecclestone's creation, and he has made his fortune from the television rights and spin-offs from F1 being second only to football as an international spectator sport.
A bond issue in 1999 and the sale of 75% of the business a year later to the German media operation Kirch netted Ecclestone £1.9 billion. Ecclestone is now a minority shareholder in the new company, Alpha Prema, that owns F1 but he remains as chief executive.
He has some choice assets to enjoy including a new £75m 85 metre yacht being built in Turkey, a £12m Falcon jet and his own hotel and chalet at Gstaad. In all before his 2009 divorce, the Ecclestones as a couple were worth around £2.2 billion. We assume he kept around two-thirds which would be worth £1.4 billion enough to plough a few million into Loftus Road.
FourFourTwo.com's QPR news page

9. Malcolm Glazer & family £1.53bn

Manchester United Ages various Malcolm 82 (Last year £1.5bn, 7th)
The most hated owners in British football although, as ever, such a claim would raise a noisy argument from the western end of the East Lancs Road the Glazer family have to be smuggled into Old Trafford for matches. Malcolm himself rarely turns up but attendance by sons Joel, Avram and Bryan (pictured) causes howls of derision.
Such is the hostility of the Manchester United faithful that a thriving g****roots movement has sprung up with fans wearing the green and yellow colours of Newton Heath, the name for United until 1902. If the Glazers would ever sell, it would bring huge joy to the red half of Manchester.
In January 2010, five years after the family bought the club, a Manchester United riddled with debts of £716.5m refinanced through a bond issue worth £504 million, enabling them to pay off most of the £509m owed to international banks. The annual interest payable on the bonds which mature on 1 February 2017 is approximately £45m. Despite all this, the Glazer family are still worth £1.530 billion something to restore your faith in mankind, were sure.
FourFourTwo.com's Manchester United news page

8. Stanley Kroenke £1.85bn

Arsenal Age 62 (Last year £2.079bn, 5th)
Formally elected to the Arsenal board in October 2008, American tycoon Stanley Kroenke is now the clubs biggest shareholder with a 29.9% stake. His shareholding is now achingly close to the 30 % threshold that would force him to make an automatic offer for the remaining shares, although he has previously declined any interest in chasing a full buyout.
Although he is married to one of the USAs richest women Ann Walton, daughter of WalMart founder James Walton Kroenke nonetheless made his own money, through a series of commerical and retail properties. He loves his sports, explaining his ownership of basketball team the Denver Nuggets and hockey outfit Colorado Avalanche. He also owns a number of shopping centres, office properties and, in true American style, ranches.
Kroenke's Arsenal stake is now worth around £190m, but his overall wealth was seriously affected by the 2008-09 crash. We are inclined to agree with Forbes opinion this year that he is worth £1.85 million.
FourFourTwo.com's Arsenal news page

7. Denis O'Brien £1.87bn

Celtic Age 52 (Last year £1.73bn, 6th)
Denis O'Briens stake in SPL side Celtic is 2.82%, worth just £1 million, and only a tiny amount of the Irish entrepreneurs fortune, but hes a big earner in the list. OBriens impressive history in telecommunication now extends to 42 radio stations across eight European countries, allowing the Irishman to hear the Bhoys crashing out of Europe in as many languages as he chooses.
The £175m recoupled for the sale of Esat Telecom, and recently-launched mobile company Digicel being worth £1.4 billion gives him some considerable value. His other assets, including the £36m Quinta do Largo golf resort in Portugal and a 26% stake in Irish News & Media, easily take O'Brien to £1.87 billion.
FourFourTwo.com's Celtic news page

6. Joe Lewis £2.7bn

Tottenham Hotspur Age 63 (Last year £2.5bn, 4th)
You would suspect that Joe Lewis is one of the happier Bahamas-based financiers and football club owners at the moment, after Harry Redknapp led Spurs to the Champions League.
Like the manager, Lewiss own early days were in the East End of London, working in his familys restaurants before running his own tourist shops in European capitals. Having seen the huge potential from foreign exchange dealing, he moved to the Bahamas in the 1970s. Lewis remains active in the field, shrewdly investing profits through The Tavistock Group, which has interests in 100 companies across a range of areas.
His clubs foray into the Champions League will be extra sweet for Lewis after a disastrous investment in Bear Stearns, the infamous Wall Street bank, resulted in a loss of nearly £500m of his own money. But now things are on the up again for the Londoner, with a new stadium in the works likely to bring more revenue in years to come. Continued huge annual profits on foreign exchange deals take Lewis up from £2.5 billion to at least £2.7 billion in the current market.

5. The Liebherr Family £3bn

Southampton Ages various
By the time of his tragic death in August, Markus Liebherr (pictured) had developed a real love of League One club Southampton and, not uncoincidentally, endeared himself to Saints fans. The German-born, Swiss-based industrialist agreed a deal to buy Southampton in July 2009 within two hours of arriving at the St Mary's ground. No terms were disclosed but Southampton came out of administration and Liebherr claimed the deal was "ein Schnappchen" a bargain.
Liebherr initially inherited a fifth of his familys industrial fortune when his father died in 1993, but he gave his shares back and developed his own business, Mali International. The whole Liebherr fortune is reckoned to be worth £3 billion. His family have pledged to continue his good work for the Saints, whose sights are set no lower than promotion to the Championship this season.
FourFourTwo.com's Southampton news page

4. Roman Abramovich £7.4bn

Chelsea Age 43 (Last year £7.8bn, 3rd)
Chelsea are recovering their poise under new manager Carlo Ancelotti, having won the Double last season. But owner Roman Abramovich will be hoping that the Blues can at last win the Champions League this season after repeated disappointments. For his part, Abramovich helpfully wrote off £340m of club debt in January and he has now effectively turned his £709m loan to the club into equity.
Abramovich has recently diversified his portfolio from oil by taking a stake in the Russian steel group Evraz and mining group Highland Gold. While the stock market turmoil of 2008-09 savaged their share prices, they have recovered of late. On top of dividends, Abramovich and his partners have stakes in the two now worth £1014m. Seven years after Abramovich bought Chelsea for £140m, we value the Russian at £7.4 billion more than enough, youd think, to keep the likes of big-spending Manchester City at bay.
FourFourTwo.com's Chelsea news page

3. Alisher Usmanov £8bn

Arsenal Age 57 (Last year £1.3bn, 9th)
Uzbek-Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov has a stake in Arsenal now worth £172m. Showing admirable commitment for one of the wealthiest men in football, he says of his interest in the Gunners: "My love for Arsenal is like that of a man for a woman. It is not something you can sell."
The son of a former state prosecutor in Tashkent, Usmanov graduated in 1976 from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations, and became rich through steel and iron ore mines. He has a stake in Metalloinvest, Russia's biggest iron ore miner, which is worth nearly £6.5 billion. His more recent investments are in media, telecoms and banking, as well as a £48 million mansion in North London. In September 2007, Usmanov splashed out £20m to buy the art collection of the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich for a state museum. With the recent stock market improvements, we raise Usmanov to £8 billion this year.
FourFourTwo.com's Arsenal news page

2. Lakshmi Mittal & family £17bn

QPR Age 60 (Last year £18.4bn, 1st)
Lakshmi Mittal will be delighted that his 2007 purchase of a 20% stake in QPR is paying off at last. By late September the Hoops were steering clear at the top of the Championship and looking good to be in the promotion race for the rest of the 2010-11 season. It will take some steel, but then steel is where the teams biggest benefactor made his fortune.
Now boss of the worlds largest steel maker his family company Arcelor-Mittal Mittal worked in the family business until 1995, when he separated his own steel operation from the familys Indian businesses and went his own way. He settled in London, where he loves to live, and stayed there. Mittals family stake in the company is now worth £13 billion.
In all, with past dividends, a £4 billion investment portfolio and other assets, we estimate that the Mittal family is now worth £17 billion plenty enough to help Neil Warnocks QPR to glory.
FourFourTwo.com's QPR news page

1. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan £20bn

Manchester City Age 40 (Last year £17bn, 2nd)
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan has spent £325m on new players at Manchester City in two years, after buying the club for £210m in August 2008. But the transfer figure may actually be under what he had budgeted for. Some £500m has been earmarked for transfer deals alone, including any receipts from sales that the club achieved in that time. The money is still there waiting to be spent.
It explains the extraordinary spending power of City and why it has assembled a galaxy of world stars including, since just last year, David Silva, Yaya Toure, Mario Balotelli, Jerome Boateng and James Milner. And as the brother of the ruler of oil-rich Abu Dhabi, Mansour has the financial firepower to give City even more.
The Sheikh has political power, as a member of the federal cabinet of the United Arab Emirates and Minister of Presidential Affairs; he is married to the daughter of Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum; and the Abu Dhabi assets tied in with his family fortune are thought to be nearly £400 billion. Hes not going anywhere. We raise his fortune this year to £20 billion as the rising oil price will be good news for Abu Dhabi and the Eastlands faithful alike.

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