The fortunes of the owners of the Premier League teams

The Premier League is the championship in which the most money is spent, and the owners of the teams in the first league of England have colossal fortunes. In first place is Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the chess player who owns the Manchester City club, with an estimated fortune of 23.3 billion pounds.

The fortunes of the owners of the Premier League teams. Abramovic, far below the sheikh of Manchester City

Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan has been the owner of Manchester City since 2008, and the sheikh in the United Arab Emirates has seven other clubs around the world. Even though he bought the English champion, the 49-year-old businessman delegated Khaldoon Al Mubarak to lead the club that ranks 2nd in the first league in England.

In addition to his involvement in football, the Sheikh of Manchester City has also invested in Virgin Galactic, which handles spaceflight, and Sky News Arabia. Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan owns a luxury yacht with a catalog price of 400,000,000 euros.

Roman Abramovic started the billionaires who came to invest in the Premier League. The Russian businessman has an estimated fortune of £ 9.6 billion and bought Chelsea in June 2003. The Londoners became a top team shortly after the oligarch began investing, with the team winning the Champions League in 2012.

Liverpool's boss is only 12th in the wealth rankings

Liverpool changed its ownership in 2010, when the club was acquired by the Fenway Sports Group consortium owned by John Henry. The American businessman has an estimated fortune of 2.1 billion pounds and ranks only 12th in the ranking of the rich in the Premier League.

In addition to Liverpool, Fenway Sports Group also owns the Boston Red Sox (MLB) club, as well as the "Anfield Road" stadium, which it acquired when it bought the English team. John Henry has been the owner of the Boston Globe since 2013, after paying $ 70,000,000 in exchange for shares in The New York Times Company.

The Glazers own Manchester United and have a fortune of 3.6 billion pounds

Manchester United has been owned by the Glazer family since May 2005, after Malcolm Glazer acquired 57% of the club's shares. After the death of the American businessman, which occurred in 2014, the “Old Trafford” pa band is controlled by Avram and Joel Glazer, and their family has an estimated fortune of 3.6 billion pounds.

Shortly after acquiring Manchester United, Malcolm Glazer was heavily challenged by the team's fans. The fans were dissatisfied with the fact that the businessman, but also his sons are not actively involved in the life of the club. At the end of 2019, the British press announced that the "devils" could change their patrons, but negotiations with the Arabs have stagnated.

Norwich City have the poorest Premier League bosses

Newly promoted to the Premier League, Norwich City are a huge distance from the big clubs in the Premier League. The band on "Carrow Road" has been owned since 1997 by the couple Delia Smith and Michael Wynn-Jones, who have an estimated fortune of 23,000,000 pounds.

Delia Smith is a well-known figure in the UK. In the mid-1970s, it came to the attention of the British with culinary broadcasts from the BBC. In addition, Delia has written dozens of cookbooks, and the volume "Delia Smith's The Winter Collection", published in 1995, has sold over 2,000,000 copies.

A Premier League club wants the Karius blunderer and pays 5 million euros!

Loris Karius, the goalkeeper whose mistakes cost Liverpool the Champions League trophy in 2018, is on loan at Besiktas.

West Ham United are willing to pay 5 million euros in exchange for the 26-year-old German goalkeeper, who still has a contract with the "cormorants" until June 2021. It would be an acceptable deal for Klopp's team, he was bought in 2016 for 6.2 million. Karius is on loan from Liverpool to Besiktas, who have a purchase clause of 8 million euros, but his form has been just as weak for the Super League team and he has made several hilarious mistakes, so the Turks will not activate him. , although he played in 32 matches in all competitions.

Sporting Lisbon and Anderlecht were also interested in German, but West Ham made a concrete offer, because, this season, the team coached by David Moyes had to use four goalkeepers (Lukasz Fabianski, Darren Randolph, Roberto, Darren Randolph ) due to poor shape or injuries.

Liverpool also suffered this season, because the owner Alisson Becker (27 years / 62.5 million euros) was more injured, and the reserve Adrian Castillo (33 years) was wrong in the return with Atletico Madrid, ended the course team in the Champions League and the management wants to sell it this summer. The team also includes veteran Andrew Lonergan (36 years old) and kids Caoimhim Kelleher (21 years old) and Vitezslav Jaros (18 years old), and the money taken from Karius can be invested in another reserve goalkeeper.

FC Barcelona has announced the name of the coach who will prepare the team, after the almost missed season with Setien

FC Barcelona has officially announced the name of the coach who will prepare the team next season

"Quique Setien will be in charge of the team for the rest of the season and in the Champions League. Our desire is to carry out his contract until the end and that includes next season," Bartomeu said in an interview with Spanish media.

Quique Setien replaced Ernesto Valverde on the technical bench of FC Barcelona in January, when he signed a contract valid until the summer of 2022.

Setien took over the team at a time when it was engaged on three fronts, with intact chances for all the trophies, La Liga, Spanish Cup and Champions League. Barcelona was first in LaLiga, tied with Real Madrid, but in the meantime the Catalans were overtaken by rivals, who now have a four-point lead, three stages before the final. From the King's Cup, Barcelona was eliminated, while in the Champions League they are still competing.

The 61-year-old Setien also coached Racing Santander, Polideportivo Ejido, the Equatorial Guinea national team, Logrones, CD Lugo, Las Palmas and Betis Sevilla.

Bartomeu also spoke about the rumors regarding Xavi's arrival at FC Barcelona: "Sooner or later, Xavi will be the coach at FC Barcelona. But all at the right time. I repeat: we are not looking for a coach yet".

The terrifying story of "Kuba", the man who saved Wisla from Krakow from bankruptcy

Jakub Blaszczykowski (34), the right wing of Wisla Krakow, has a touching life story.

Becoming the owner of the band he played for over a decade ago and to which he returned last year, "Kuba" (1.74 m) was well-known in Germany, and his fame and results also brought him money.

The Polish international signed Wisla in the autumn for a symbolic salary of 100 euros a month, and in April, when the coronavirus crisis put the club's bosses in a position to have no money to pay their salaries, Blaszczykowski invested a much of the fortune.
Dolha: "He looked like Neluțu Sabău as a style of play"

"A fine gesture, characteristic of him, a guy with a big heart, I'm glad he invested his money in football.

He is a champion and I don't label him like that after the number of trophies, the champions are seen as they behave, as they try to help and as they try to become better people.

"He was coming to get me a sack of balls"

Dolha and the current Wisla boss were colleagues between 2004 and 2007, before the midfielder left for the Bundesliga.

"In training, I would take the bags of balls and carry them to the field and back to the locker room. It was fashionable for older footballers not to carry bags, but I did. He always came to me and took a bag. A footballer with a great availability for effort, complete. He had dribbling, long pass, last pass ", says the former goalkeeper.

• Jakub collected 109 selections for the Polish national team
• He scored 21 goals for the first team

"It wasn't easy for me to publish something like that, but it's a moment I won't forget for the rest of my life."

Jakub had a cruel childhood. His father killed his mother right in front of his eyes. He was five years old, and the pictures still don't give him peace. When he wrote his autobiography, Kuba recounted everything. "It was not easy for me to publish something like this, but it is a moment I will not forget for the rest of my life," the Pole told Die Welt in 2015.