Club // Owner // Estimated wealth Aston Villa // Dr. Tony Xia, Nassef Sawiris, Wesley Edens // £8,100,000,000 Barnsley // International Investment Consortium (Headed by Chien Lee) // £6,900,000,000 Stoke // Coates family // £3,100,000,000 West Brom // Guochuan Lai // £2,800,000,000 Bristol City // Steve Lansdown // £1,720,000,000 Preston // Trevor Hemmings // £1,000,000,000 Ipswich // Marcus Evans // £800,000,000 Portsmouth // Michael Eisner // £761,363,968 Reading // Dai Yongge and Dai Xiu Li // £700,000,000 * only represents wealth of Dai Xiu Li Sheffield Wednesday // Dejphon Chansiri // £520,000,000 Derby // Mel Morris // £500,000,000 Nottingham Forest // Evangelos Marinakis // £470,000,000 Leeds // Andrea Radrizzani // £450,000,000 Birmingham // Paul Suen (Trillion Trophy Asia) // £450,000,000 Bristol Rovers // Dwane Sports (Al-Qadi family) // £400,000,000 QPR // Tony Fernandes, Lakshmi Mittal // £345,000,000 Scunthorpe United // Peter Swann (family) // £340,000,000 Sheffield United // Kevin McCabe and Prince Abdullah bin Mosaad bin Abdulaziz Al Saud // £260,000,000 Wigan // Dave Whelan // £250,000,000 Hull City // Assem Allam // £200,000,000 Middlesbrough // Steve Gibson // £195,000,000 Rotherham // Tony Stewart and J Stewart // £180,000,000 Millwall // John Berylson, Richard Smith // £175,000,000 Milton Keynes Dons // Pete Winkelman // £157,900,000 Forest Green Rovers // Dale Vince // £107,000,000 Blackpool // Owen Oyston // £100,000,000 Bradford City // Stefan Rupp and Edin Rahic // £100,000,000 Stevenage // Phil Wallace // £70,000,000 Notts County // Alan Hardy // £55,000,000 Swindon Town // Lee Power // £45,000,000 Colchester United // Robbie Cowling // £40,000,000 Norwich // Delia Smith and Michael Wynn-Jones // £30,000,000
Interesting read. I wonder how much Chien Lee has put into Barnsley? From afar, they've been relegated and sold their 'best' player. Plus, how did Lee Power get so wealthy? Doesn't seem that long ago he was one of Bradford's big signings in Div 3. Post Wigan game, I didn't realise that old bellend still owned the club (Whelan) - thought they'd sold up.
Surprising how many clubs are owned by very wealthy people who just obviously don't invest that much. It's understandable, but surprising.
Not sure the Lee Power one is accurate, he had a sports publishing company that went pop a while back, it seems to have started up again and be doing much better, but still seems a high valuation, unless his racehorses are worth a fortune?
Scunthorpe United // Peter Swann (family) // £340,000,000 Fancy a change Pete? Anyone is better than the despicables. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Swann
Mebbe not, Balders; my Scunny supporting buddies are of the opinion that due to divorce/pending divorce, having business interests and a base over there, he'd be more interested in Blackpool than Hull City.
No chance, he's very thin-skinned and has threatened legal action on more than one occasion when Scunny fans have offered an 'opinion' on him. He's not speaking to their local tag after comments about him on their comment section, and seems to be after finding out their identity. His lawyers would be working overtime if he came here! The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Had a meal with him and his Mrs a while back I liked him, but very single minded and I bet he’s bloody tough if you get on his wrong side. I imagine that Blackpool would appeal to him more
As Delia and her hubby are very poor in comparison to many on the list , having loads of cash doesn't mean success , but you can get the top league if you only have small change .
There again, **** all else to do once you have visited the mustard museum and the old Sale of the Century studio set at Anglia TV.
Was in Norfolk this week and went to Norwich. Much better shopping with far more choices,some attractive old streets. Loads of pubs and independent cafes all in the centre. A far better centre than Hull though no doubt they have some outlying districts just as grotty as Hull. Tourists of all nationalities wandering aboug. My wife commented on the number of buses dropping tourists off. I told her some Hull folk say it is a dump compared to Hull. She thought they must be joking, or idiots.
I recall travelling by KHCT double decker to a fixture at Sealand Road in - oh let me think- 1978 or was it 1979? and being surprised at their quaint old mediaeval timbered centre. Hidden gem and all that. There are a lot of historic town and city centres in the UK. and in of Yorkshire cities only York has a better one. Despite the so called baedeker bombings they never copped for a lot, unlike Hull which as we all know got bombed to ****. I had the good fortune to be walking along the Victoria Dock waterfront one afternoon this week, choppy waters, scudding clouds, bright September sunlight and bracing wind. Can't imagine Norwich has owt to trump that spectacular view. Despite COC 2017 being over I still see plenty of foreign tourists in town.
Surprised they weren't more heavily bombed though that may have been something to do with the docks in Hull being a strategic target and German bombers dropping unused bombs as they were guided by the Humber whilst the main targets in that area were all the American airbases not the city of Norwich Talking of York, when William the conqueror landed only 3 cities had a population of over 30,000, London, Norwich and York. Which is why Norwich has 2 cathedrals, William built a massive one to overshadow the existing one and a castle as he considered it strategically important in order to control that area of the country. Talking of bombing, Hull had 4,000 tons of bombs dropped on it in the 6 years of the war. That city in Germany we played preseason a few years back had 10,000 tons in one raid over 2 days, the most tons in one raid in the war. Got rebuilt a lot more quickly and no one blames problems over 70 years later on it.
The rebuilding of Dresden is ongoing - funding still being provided by the wealthier states of the former West Germany by statute. If only we'd had some elected politicians close to Downing Street who could have affected the prosperity of this city.
In the 1990s, efforts increased to reconstruct historic buildings that had been destroyed in the air raid.[citation needed] The façade of the Braunschweiger Schloss was rebuilt, and buildings such as the Alte Waage (originally built in 1534) now stand again.
