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FOOTBALL'S RICH LIST
David Beckham �87m
Michael Owen �32m
Robbie Fowler �28m
Sol Campbell �27m
Rio Ferdinand �22m
Ryan Giggs �22m
Andriy Shevchenko �22m
Thierry Henry �21m
Wayne Rooney �20m
Michael Ballack �18m
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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.
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FOOTBALL'S TOP INVESTORS
R Abramovich (Chelsea) �10.8bn
J Lewis (Spurs) �2.1bn
D Desmond (Celtic) �1.25bn
M Glazer (Man Utd) �1.05bn
T Hemmings (Ch'ton, Preston) �900m
Sir A Sugar (Spurs) �790m
R Lerner (Villa) �789m
D Murray (Rangers) �650m
S Keswick, family (Cheltenham) �644m
D Sullivan (Birmingham) �595m
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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.
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