No, we're not. Silvio bought Milan 20 years ago, and like mchanna said, he's italian. It's a complete different situation than the ones of Chelsea or Liverpool. Also, it's been a very long while since Silvio spent so much money like Abramovich is doing every year. Things have changed.

What difference it makes if the owner is Italian, Swedish or Black Metal fan????
Football turned to business and the clubs are companies now, so this is meaningless!
All that matters is the players, the heart you put in and Maldini (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Beckham tops rich list with £87m in the bank

David Beckham's value on the field of play may be on the wane, but the former England skipper remains peerless when it comes to football's high earners.

According to a survey of British footballers and foreign imports plying their trade in the Premiership, Beckham remains by far the games' richest exponent.

Top ten

Despite slipping down the pecking order at Real Madrid this season, Beckham tops the rich list poll with a figure of £87million, more than twice that of second-placed Michael Owen who is said to be worth £32m.

Beckham's personal fortune is down to his £4.4m a year contract with Real, which expires in the summer, along with income from advertising contracts with the likes of Gillette, Adidas and Pepsi. And despite losing lucrative deals with Vodafone and Police sunglasses, Beckham still found enough cash to pay himself a £19m salary out of the coffers of his company, Footwork Productions Ltd, last year.

Robbie Fowler, like Beckham, may be entering the twilight of his footballing career, but shrewd investments in the property market along with his Liverpool pay packet see the former England striker complete the top three with a £28m nest egg.

Chelsea's Andriy Shevchenko is the top foreign earner playing in England in seventh place, his £121,000-a-week deal at Stamford Bridge helping to swell his wealth to £22m, £1m ahead of Arsenal's Thierry Henry.

Another Chelsea summer import, Michael Ballack, completes the top 10 with with a relatively modest figure of £18m despite his £130,000-a-week deal.

The survey, in the current issue of FourFourTwo magazine (also highlights the amount of foreign money pouring into the Premiership, with overseas investors worth a staggering total of £13 billion.

That figure is set to touch the £20 billion mark should Dubai's billionaire ruler Sheik Mohammed complete his £450m takeover of Liverpool in the New Year.

But the wealthy Arab would have to settle for second place behind Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, whose own dealings in the world of oil see him top the list of wealthiest investors with a £10.8 billion fortune.

American investors Malcom Glazer and Randy Lerner come in fourth and seventh respectively in the poll of investors. Manchester United owner Glazer, 78, is said to be worth a wallet-bulging £1.05 billion while Villa's new Stateside sugar-daddy has a healthy £789m in the bank.

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Abramovich = 10x Glazer

Sheik Mo = 2x Abramovich (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

You misunderstood

Yep. But it's kind confuse.

I mean, if Sheik Mo is the #5 world's richest man, how can he be behind Abramovich (who is not on the top 5)?

how come that michael earns more than andriy O.o

I think he earned more in his career cuz of commercials. But Sheva's salary is higher

1 William Gates III United States 50.0 ($bil)
2 Warren Buffett United States 42.0
3 Carlos Slim Helu Mexico 30.0
4 Ingvar Kamprad Sweden 28.0
5 Lakshmi Mittal India 23.5
6 Paul Allen United States 22.0
7 Bernard Arnault France 21.5
8 Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud Saudi Arabia 20.0
9 Kenneth Thomson & family Canada 19.6
10 Li Ka-shing Hong Kong 18.8
11 Roman Abramovich Russia 18.2
12 Michael Dell United States 17.1
13 Karl Albrecht Germany 17.0
14 Sheldon Adelson United States 16.1
15 Liliane Bettencourt France 16.0
15 Lawrence Ellison United States 16.0
17 Christy Walton United States 15.9
17 Jim Walton United States 15.9
19 S Robson Walton United States 15.8
20 Alice Walton United States 15.7
21 Helen Walton United States 15.6
22 Theo Albrecht Germany 15.2
23 Amancio Ortega Spain 14.8
24 Steven Ballmer United States 13.6
25 Azim Premji India 13.3

nope:

I thought you was talking about Michael Owen (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/blush.gif)

That's the forbes list. But many of the billionaires are not on that list. Sheik Mo for example (who's known as the #5 in the world). Echo and other English newspapers said that some days ago.

This is a list of heads of government or state by net worth

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, king of Saudi Arabia - $21 billion
Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud, Saudi prince - $20 billion
Hassanal Bolkiah, sultan of Brunei - $20 billion
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler of United Arab Emirates - $19 billion
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum , Ruler of Dubai - $14 billion
Hans Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein - $4 billion
Prince Albert II, Prince of Monaco - $1 billion
Fidel Castro, President of Cuba - $900 million (disputed[1][2] Forbes estimate based on Cuba's GDP[3])
HM Queen Elizabeth II, head of state of the UK and the 16 Commonwealth Realms - $700 million
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatorial Guinea - $600 million
Queen Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands - $270 million
HM King Harald V, head of state of Norway - $240 million
King Mswati, The King of Swaziland - $50 million
Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, head of government of Hungary - $16 million[4]
Prime Minister Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, head of government of Romania - $15 million
President George W. Bush, head of state of the United States - $15 million
HM Queen Margrethe II, head of state of Denmark - $10 million
HM King Carl Gustaf, head of state of Sweden - $9 million
President Jacques Chirac, head of state of France - $9 million
The Rt. Hon. Helen Clark, head of government of New Zealand - $5 million

So, how do you explain the #5 (in the world richest men list) that the English newspapers said?

Maybe they calculated it some other way. I don't know.