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.
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.
