Abramovich Sounding Out Buyers?

Chelsea fans will be upset to learn that the rumours about Roman Abramovich looking to offload Chelsea have made it to the Times Newspaper, who are reporting that the oligarch is rumoured to be sounding out money men from the Gulf over a potential sale.

It may not be all doom and gloom for Chelsea. Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan is looking to splash out £107m on Kaka, and it looks like they can outspend the rest of the Premier League. As unthinkable as it would have been 2 or 3 years ago, Chelsea are not the richest club in the world anymore, they are even behind Championship club QPR.

A few billion quid doesn't buy you what it used to.

What Man City Are Getting For Their £110m

When you have as much money as Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan it is completely pointless debating whether their extravagances are warranted or not. So here is a glimpse of what they are going to get with the Sheik's money.



Note: I wonder if Man City have though this through. If City pay £110m for Kaka, they may inadvertently be helping United hold onto Ronaldo in the summer. After all if Kaka is £110m, surely Ronaldo is worth at least £150m ??

Football Owners Richlist

FourFourTwo.com has published their Football Rich List of owners. The headline news is that Roman Abramovich has dropped to third place.



Top of the tree is Shehk Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan owner of Manchester City with a personal fortune of £15bn.



Two of the separate top 5 entries are the joint owners of QPR.



See the article here.