Toon Boss Makes Top 10 Richest List!

Mike Ashley is ranked as the 10th richest man in the British game in FourFourTwo's Football Rich List for the 2011-12 season.

Ashley’s increased wealth has grown from the small chain of sports shops which he built into SportsDirect.com, the UK’s biggest sportswear retailer, and owner of brands such as like Donnay, Dunlop Slazenger, Kangol, Karrimor and Lonsdale.

His increased wealth has come as he has continued to acquire budget sports brands, such as American extreme sports label No Fear.

the list -

1. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan £20bn
Manchester City (Last year £20bn, 1st)

2. Alisher Usmanov £12.4bn
Arsenal (Last year £8bn, 3rd)

3. Lakshmi Mittal £11.8bn
QPR (Last year £17bn, 2nd)

4. Roman Abramovich £10.3bn
Chelsea (Last year £7.4bn, 4th)

5. The Liebherr Family £3bn
Southampton (Last year £3bn, 5th)

6. Joe Lewis £2.8bn
Tottenham Hotspur (Last year £2.7bn, 6th)

7. Denis O'Brien £2.517bn
Celtic (Last year £1.87bn, 7th)

8. Stanley Kroenke £1.8bn
Arsenal (Last year £1.85bn, 8th)

9. Malcolm Glazer & family £1.64bn
Manchester United (Last year £1.53bn, 9th)

10. Fat Lad £1.37bn
Newcastle United (Last year £950m, 16th)

more info here http://www.newcastleunited-mad.co.u..._makes_top_10_richest_list_705124/index.shtml

the full four four two list is here (top 100) http://fourfourtwo.com/lists/thefootballrichlist201112thefull100.aspx

 

Didn't realise he was that loaded :O

 

Any chance of some of that cash, mike?

 

big leap from last season

looking at the list apart from man city arsenal have got some serious money behind them (14 bn - 6 bn short of man city)

 

Southampton and Celtic are surprises for me!

 

yeah and me also QPR as the guy with the controlling shares is way down

 

Must be paying for Taarabt's oyster card.

 

added this to the top the full four four two list http://fourfourtwo.com/lists/thefootballrichlist201112thefull100.aspx

 

looking at the bolton owner and their loss figures how the hell do they survive or is it a matter of time?

 

Lend iz a tenner Mike

 

quite a few shocks in the whole list everton for example have some serious money men as share holders but spend **** all? tight bastards also the bin dippers and viles owners not as rich as i expected (wouldn't mind being a quid behind them like)

 

pardew not even in the managers list poor ****er he must still be paying lamearse off

 

What we have to remember is that no man, no matter how rich, is going to spend a giant chunk of his fortune, especially when most of that fortune is more assets than cash, and that actual cash could be significantly less.

Mike Ashley's actual cash wealth could only be within the tens of millions quite easily. We can't tell. And as his companies have boards of directors, it isn't as easy as just sliding in and dipping his hand into an endless money pit.

Note that the two largest spenders are Mansour and Abramovich. Mansour has a PERSONAL wealth of £20billion, which speaks for itself. With Abramovich, one of his first businesses was selling contraband on the black market, and he admitted that he paid millions in bribes to acquire huge stakes in Russian companies which turned from millions to billions of pounds in value. He's had dozens of businesses, and now owns an investment company which couldn't be anymore shady or 'under wraps' if it tried.

Compare that to the likes of Mittal, Ashley and Liebherr, who are all mostly involved with heavily regulated public limited companies, where board members ultimately have more control over the company than they do. No matter how much the companies make, these people simply aren't allowed to take what they like, and they will ultimately receive sums based on the percentage of shares they own.

So really, expecting some of these people to suddenly appear with £20, 40 or 60million in cash without much fuss is just entirely unrealistic.

 

no ones saying that though

 

It's just for those who occasionally wonder why some seemingly rich owners are such tight arses. Not just Newcastle and our owner, but others too.

 

£5.5m is going to take a while to pay off out of a managers salary.

 

not sure if the four four two list is personal wealth though or paper wealth so to speak

 

He's not gonna give us any of his personal wealth, all the money we get to spend on players will come from the selling of other players.

 

would imagine this would apply to the majority of clubs with the exception of man city and Chelsea,saying that though hasn't Roman stopped dipping into his own pocket these days.

 

5 yrs i'd say the length of his contract but saying that looking at the casino pics the other day he looks like he's trying his best for a job for life