TOP 20 WEALTHIEST PLAYERS INVOLVED IN BRITISH FOOTBALL

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TOP 20 WEALTHIEST PLAYERS INVOLVED IN BRITISH FOOTBALL

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10. Patrick Vieira £18m

Manchester City Age 34 (New entry)

Midfield general Patrick Vieira made his name in English football at
Arsenal after a £3.5m move from Milan in 1996. Nine successful years
later he left Arsenal for Juventus in a 20m transfer. A year later he
signed a four-year deal for Internazionale in a 9.5m deal. At both
clubs the French international earned around £90,000 a week. In January
2010 he joined Manchester City on a six month contract worth £140,000 a
week, extended in June 2010 by a year. In all we reckon Vieira is worth
£18m.

9. John Terry £19m

Chelsea Age 29 (Last year £18m, 9th)

Few players can have had worse years in which they've captained their
side to the Double. John Terry has gone through tabloid scandal,
widespread public condemnation, the loss of his England captaincy and
the subsequent poor World Cup. Perhaps he's glad he stayed loyal to
Chelsea by turning down the £250,000 weekly wage Manchester City
offered; the club seems to be his home and he's hardly penniless on
£160,000 a week with the right to a testimonial worth around £2.5m.

Endorsements, headed by Umbro, supplement his wages. But as with Rooney
we are cautious about further promotional earnings due to the rough ride
he has had in the tabloids. On the flip side, Terry has invested
heavily in property developments, some of them overseas. We therefore
add just £1m to Terrys valuation this year, taking him to £19m.

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7. Frank Lampard £22m

Chelsea Age 32 (Last year £21m, 88th)

Frank Lampard remains with Chelsea after shunning overtures from his
former boss Jose Mourinho in the summer of 2008. He signed a five-year
deal worth £33m, which sees his wages peak at £140,000 a week (£7.3m a
year). We gather another £1m a year comes from his boot sponsors Adidas.

Lampard has three companies including Frank Lampard Promotions, with
nearly £1.5m net assets in total in 2008-09. Last year's split with his
fiancée Elen Rivas is likely to have hit his finances, so we cautiously
value Lampard at £22m.

7. Steven Gerrard £22m

Liverpool Age 30 (Last year £20m, 90th)

Liverpools totem earns £6.5m a year; given his importance to the teams
cause, fans would not begrudge him a penny. Endorsement deals with
Adidas and Lucozade add around £750,000 a year, giving him annual
earnings of at least £9m according to Forbes magazine
He has invested £5m of his fortune
in Merseyside and Dubai penthouse apartments. Steven Gerrard Promotions,
his company showed £3.5m net assets in 2008-09. Gerrard should now be
worth £22m despite the collapse in Dubai property prices.

6. Wayne Rooney £25m

Manchester United Age 24 (Last year £37m, 65th)

It's not been quite the 2010 Wayne Rooney envisaged. An injury knocked
him off the blistering form he'd been displaying, Manchester United won
nothing bigger than the League Cup and England were hugely disappointing
at the World Cup. And then it got worse.
Lurid tabloid allegations over his
private life have threatened his marriage to childhood sweetheart
Coleen, held him up to terrace ridicule, and could undermine his
lucrative sponsorship deals with the likes of Coca-Cola, EA Sports and
Nike. In 2008, he signed a £1m two-year deal to become a global face for
Mercedes. These sponsorship deals are worth around £6m a year. He has a
five-book deal with Harper Collins with a £5m advance.

The £3.2m deal with OK! for the photographic rights to his summer 2008
wedding to Coleen confirmed their status as celebrity hot property. The
Rooneys live in a £4.25m home in Cheshire and also have a Florida
holiday home. He is paid £100,000 a week by the club and is in
negotiations to push that up to £130,000 a week. But with fears over the
future of sponsorship deals and speculation that their marriage may not
survive (leading inevitably to talks of a hefty divorce settlement) we
cautiously cut Rooney back to £25m this year.

5. Ryan Giggs £27m

Manchester United Age 36 (Last year £24m, 85th)

Evergreen hardly does Giggs justice. Now approaching 850 appearances for
Manchester United and with a contract that takes him through until the
end of next season, he has every chance of clocking up more than 20
years in the clubs first team. He has been richly rewarded for his
loyalty and while his current £4.2m a year contract does not match that
of some of his younger team-mates, he has been earning at this rate and
more since some of them were still in their prams.

A mainstay of Reebok, Giggs has
managed to keep his exploits on the back pages rather than the front,
maintaining a private life despite being the most decorated footballer
in history. Now in his 20th year at the top, Giggs has amassed a
personal fortune that should ensure he never has to work again when he
hangs up his boots. His company, Ryan Giggs Ltd, has around £3.4m net
assets as at the end of 2008. As he is very careful with his money and
with his longevity, we reckon Giggs should be worth £27m right now.

4. Sol Campbell £31m

Newcastle United Age 36 (Re-entry)

Now on a one-year contract with Newcastle United, Sol Campbell last year
became only the fifth ever player to return to Arsenal. Before that, he
had played just one game for Notts County before walking out on a
five-year £40,000-a-week contract claiming that promises to bring other
star signings had not been kept. An outstanding athlete with 73
England caps, Campbell has benefited from playing at the height of the
Premier Leagues pulling power. Huge income from television rights has
been passed on to players and Campbell was one of the first to benefit
from Bosman free transfers when he moved to Arsenal from Spurs in 2001
as a free agent and took a significant proportion of what Arsenal could
have expected to pay in transfer fees as part of his then £5m annual
salary.

A boot deal with Nike added more to the Campbell coffers, and he the
first time he left Arsenal the club paid up the final year of his
contract - at which point he signed a lucrative contract with the then
high-rolling Portsmouth. In January 2010, Campbell sued Pompey for £1.7m
in unpaid image rights and bonus payments. His company Sol Man Ltd
showed £668,000 net assets in 2008-09, and he has a £10m plus house on
Chelseas Cheyne Walk.

3. Rio Ferdinand £34m

Manchester United Age 31 (Last year £30m, 85th)

Ever more plagued by injury, Rio Ferdinand is increasingly active
outside football. Yet the Manchester United centre back is still
reckoned to be the Premier League's best natural defender. A £1m a year
pay rise taking him to £120,000 a week was Ferdinands reward for the
imperious form that helped Manchester United claim the Premier League
and Champions League double in 2008. A lucrative boot deal with Nike
provides extra funds to channel into his extensive property portfolio
that takes in London, Morocco and the Caribbean. He owns 60% of the
White Chalk recording company which he hopes will help him realise his
ambition to become a music mogul. It made a £78,000 loss in 2008-09,
while his personal company, RGF Enterprises only publishes abbreviated
accounts. But with property values not yet recovered we only raise
Ferdinand this year to £34m.

2. Michael Owen £40m

Manchester United Age 30 (Last year £38m, 64th)

Upon joining Manchester United, Michael Owen struck a pay-as-you play
deal dwarfed by the £110,000 a week he was on at Newcastle, but the only
begging he'll need to do is asking Alex Ferguson for more games. Decent
wages at Real Madrid and Liverpool were topped up on the commercial
front as Owen starred in a series of adverts that charted his life, and
rise to fame.

In 2001, he was the advertising faceof breakfast cereal Nestlé Sporties. He also appeared in several
adverts for the washing powder Persil, in a contract worth £1m. Owen wasa cover star for Pro Evolution Soccer 2008. He has been an ambassador of the Swiss watchmaker Tissot since 1998 and has a contract with car manufacturer Jaguar. His sponsorship deal with Umbro nets him £2m a year, lifting his earnings at his peak to north of £7.5m a year. His Owen Promotions company showed £6.8m net assets in 2008-09. He also has a string of racehorses trained by the up and coming Tom Dascombe. But with his lower income this year from his new Manchester United deal,we keep Owen at £40m.

1. David & Victoria Beckham £100m

Age 35 & 36 (Last year £125m, 38th)

Tough times for the Beckhams relatively speaking, of course.
Reports that they are downsizing their large domestic retinue by 14 come after accountants have trawled over their finances. Their Hertfordshire mansion is on the market for £18m. And the Heat era's golden couple are finding that as Becks' football career draws to a close, sponsorship and other deals are becoming rarer and less lucrative. None of this will
matter to Beckham half as much as Fabio Capello's brusque termination of his 117-cap England career.

Where did it all go wrong for the handsome multimillionaire global fashion icon with the cupboard full of medals? Beckham's four-year Real Madrid contract earned him £6m annually
and was followed by a transatlantic move which made global news, even if the headline figure of £128m was partly misleading: a large part of it would flow from sponsorship deals and his ability to raise attendance
at games.

With Victoria, Beckham is now clearly preparing for his life after
football, launching fashion and cosmetics lines. In 2007, the Beckhams
were reportedly paid $13.7m to launch his fragrance line in the US. They
have their own company, Beckham Brand Limited, to exploit the family
name. In 2008 its profits soared to £5.6m on £9.8m sales. In 2008,
Beckham's own company, Footwork Productions paid him nearly £10.8m
against £5.2m the year previously. The good news for David as his
playing career winds down is that a quarter of his earnings come from
Asia, driven more by his iconic status than his football performance:
Forbes magazine's celebrity 100 list last year put Beckham's worldwide
earnings at £28m. But while he has a £10m a year from adidas, some deals
have ended and the very lucrative ones depend on his continuing as a
top-class player.

For her part, Victoria has made £10m from her Spice Girl days and is
making more from musicals and a TV career, but her real future earnings
will come from her fashion range. Her fourth collection has won global
praise and been sold out at top stores. The business funds itself but
is not yet a real moneyspinner. With annual living costs of £5m a year,
the Beckham family wealth and asset wealth is around £80m. In the past
their wealth figure has been boosted by their value as a brand, but
until we see how that pans out, we cautiously cut the value of the pair
to £100m for now.

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