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Rich List 2009/10: The full 100 | Lists - FourFourTwo
10. Lord Grantchester and family £1.2bn
EvertonAge 58, last year£1.2bn (8th)
Labour peer Lord Grantchester is the grandson of Sir John Moores, chairman of Everton in the 1960s and 1970s. The Moores family have strong connections with both top-flight Merseyside clubs; Sir John's nephew David Moores was chairman of his beloved Liverpool FC until selling his controlling stake to George Gillett and Tom Hanks in March 2007.
Meanwhile Sir John's grandson, titled Lord Grantchester, has an 8% stake in Everton and recently donated £100,000 towards the £800,000 cost of acquiring the Everton Collection of memorabilia. He had also served on the Everton board until 2004 and offered to underwrite the club to the tune of £4m, which was turned down.
The family wealth derives from the Littlewoods pools business which started in 1923. It later branched out into mail order and retailing. The family sold some stores in 1998 and the pools side of the business in 2000; those proceeds and past dividends are worth £445m. But another windfall came in 2002 when the remaining department stores and mail order operation were sold for £750m. In all the family should be worth perhaps £1200m.
9. Alisher Usmanov £1.3bn - Arsenal.
8. Bernie Ecclestone £1.466bn - QPR
7. Malcolm Glazer and family £1.5bn - Man United
6. Denis O'Brien £1.73bn - Celtic
5. Stan Kroenke £2.079bn - Arsenal
4. Joe Lewis £2.5bn - Spurs
3. Roman Abramovich £7.8bn - Chelsea
2. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan £17bn - Man City
1. Lakshmi Mittal £18.4bn
QPR Age 59 (Last year £12.5bn, 2nd)
With former F1 racing tycoon Flavio Briatore in disgrace, Lakshmi Mittal could buy out the Italian's 54% stake in QPR. He's already an investor in the club, having spent £200,000 on a 20% stake in December 2007, and his son-in-law Amit Bhatia sits on the Loftus Road board as vice chairman.
Born in India but resident in London, Mittal is the world's biggest steel maker through his family company Arcelor-Mittal. As with many moguls he was hit hard by the stock market turmoil in late 2008 but shares have recovered in recent weeks and the family stake is now worth £15.4 billion. You can add another £3 billion for past dividends and property: in 2004 alone, Arcelor-Mittal paid out £1.38 billion to the Mittals.
A separate investment portfolio is now worth around £570m. Mittal has a £9m pile in London's exclusive Bishop's Avenue, and set a world record for a private home when he paid a reputed £70m to Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone for a house in Kensington Palace Gardens. In June 2004 he also splashed out £30m for his daughter's wedding. In all we reckon that the Mittal family is now worth perhaps £18.44 billion, plenty enough to help QPR to glory.
As for players -
Rich List 2009/10: Top 20 Players | Lists - FourFourTwo
Robinho £10m
Dimitar Berbatov £11m
Joe Cole £11m
Damien Duff £12m
Gary Neville £12m
Petr Cech £12m
Emile Heskey £13m
Ashley Cole £14m
Fernando Torres £14m
Nicolas Anelka £14m
Didier Drogba £16m
John Terry £18m
Steven Gerrard £20m
Frank Lampard £21m
Michael Ballack £22m
Ryan Giggs £24m
Rio Ferdinand £30m
Wayne Rooney £37m
Michael Owen £38m
David Beckham £125m
Its funny how the list is full of players who have been in the game for a while, the mega earners are 30 years+. But Beckham smashes everyone with how much he earns. You'd think he wouldnt be as popular but it doesnt show that.
Might need to go in to World Football.
Rich List 2009/10: The full 100 | Lists - FourFourTwo
10. Lord Grantchester and family £1.2bn
EvertonAge 58, last year£1.2bn (8th)
Labour peer Lord Grantchester is the grandson of Sir John Moores, chairman of Everton in the 1960s and 1970s. The Moores family have strong connections with both top-flight Merseyside clubs; Sir John's nephew David Moores was chairman of his beloved Liverpool FC until selling his controlling stake to George Gillett and Tom Hanks in March 2007.
Meanwhile Sir John's grandson, titled Lord Grantchester, has an 8% stake in Everton and recently donated £100,000 towards the £800,000 cost of acquiring the Everton Collection of memorabilia. He had also served on the Everton board until 2004 and offered to underwrite the club to the tune of £4m, which was turned down.
The family wealth derives from the Littlewoods pools business which started in 1923. It later branched out into mail order and retailing. The family sold some stores in 1998 and the pools side of the business in 2000; those proceeds and past dividends are worth £445m. But another windfall came in 2002 when the remaining department stores and mail order operation were sold for £750m. In all the family should be worth perhaps £1200m.
9. Alisher Usmanov £1.3bn - Arsenal.
8. Bernie Ecclestone £1.466bn - QPR
7. Malcolm Glazer and family £1.5bn - Man United
6. Denis O'Brien £1.73bn - Celtic
5. Stan Kroenke £2.079bn - Arsenal
4. Joe Lewis £2.5bn - Spurs
3. Roman Abramovich £7.8bn - Chelsea
2. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan £17bn - Man City
1. Lakshmi Mittal £18.4bn
QPR Age 59 (Last year £12.5bn, 2nd)
With former F1 racing tycoon Flavio Briatore in disgrace, Lakshmi Mittal could buy out the Italian's 54% stake in QPR. He's already an investor in the club, having spent £200,000 on a 20% stake in December 2007, and his son-in-law Amit Bhatia sits on the Loftus Road board as vice chairman.
Born in India but resident in London, Mittal is the world's biggest steel maker through his family company Arcelor-Mittal. As with many moguls he was hit hard by the stock market turmoil in late 2008 but shares have recovered in recent weeks and the family stake is now worth £15.4 billion. You can add another £3 billion for past dividends and property: in 2004 alone, Arcelor-Mittal paid out £1.38 billion to the Mittals.
A separate investment portfolio is now worth around £570m. Mittal has a £9m pile in London's exclusive Bishop's Avenue, and set a world record for a private home when he paid a reputed £70m to Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone for a house in Kensington Palace Gardens. In June 2004 he also splashed out £30m for his daughter's wedding. In all we reckon that the Mittal family is now worth perhaps £18.44 billion, plenty enough to help QPR to glory.
As for players -
Rich List 2009/10: Top 20 Players | Lists - FourFourTwo
Robinho £10m
Dimitar Berbatov £11m
Joe Cole £11m
Damien Duff £12m
Gary Neville £12m
Petr Cech £12m
Emile Heskey £13m
Ashley Cole £14m
Fernando Torres £14m
Nicolas Anelka £14m
Didier Drogba £16m
John Terry £18m
Steven Gerrard £20m
Frank Lampard £21m
Michael Ballack £22m
Ryan Giggs £24m
Rio Ferdinand £30m
Wayne Rooney £37m
Michael Owen £38m
David Beckham £125m
Its funny how the list is full of players who have been in the game for a while, the mega earners are 30 years+. But Beckham smashes everyone with how much he earns. You'd think he wouldnt be as popular but it doesnt show that.
Might need to go in to World Football.
