Without money, nothing works in soccer. Anyone who doesn’t have millions can’t play at the top of the football business. Stay tuned as in this article of Gazettely, we will reveal the top richest football club owners in the world as of 2021. Stay tuned.
In the last few years, football has undergone a complete change of dimension thanks to because of money. Nowadays, it has become almost normal to see transfers taking place for unimaginable amounts of money or huge incomes like Neymar’s.
Football players such as Cristiano Ronaldo, have turned into marketing assets that can be bought and sold. Furthermore, the TV rights to obtain and broadcast championships and other competitions have become an area where the sums sometimes reach colossal sums.
The same applies to the financial strength of clubs… While most football fans think that the owners of Manchester City and PSG are the richest, the truth is quite different. While both clubs are, for example, ranked among the 10 most expensive squads in Europe, below we will take a look at the richest football club owners and there are a few surprises in this ranking.
Who are the richest football club owners in the world?
Although some of them own big European clubs, such as Roman Abramovitch with Chelsea or the Agnelli family who have owned Juventus since 1923 (and who have had the time to sell players sometimes at a high price), there are others who own more modest clubs. For example, Shahid Khan owns Fulham, which is playing in the English second division, or businessmen who have preferred to bet on MLS clubs rather than on top teams! If you are ready, let’s see who the richest football club owners in the world are.
Mike Ashley dropped out of school at 16. With a loan from his parents, he opened his own sports shop in Maidenhead just two years later. He built up the Sports Direct chain into a company with 400 shops.
Ashley bought Newcastle United in 2007 for around £135 million, thus earning himself a place in the list of richest football club owners in the world. The fans are not happy with Ashley’s 14-year reign. In recent years, the results have improved. Rafael Benitez became manager of the club and was rewarded with first place in the British first division in the 2016-2017 season.
However, in the 2017-18 season things were not good and although the club managed to stay in the Premier League, however the lack of investments on new players and the fact that Ashley wanted to sell the club, resulted in the resignation of Benitez in 2019.
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