TOTTENHAM supremo Daniel Levy has made it onto The Sunday Times Rich List for the first time owing to his monumental £329million fortune.
Spurs owner Joe Lewis – who has a £113m superyacht with a full-size tennis court – remains the ultimate money man at the club with £3.99billion to his name.
Spurs supremo Levy is worth a massive £329mCredit: Getty Images – Getty
But Levy, who is famed for driving a hard bargain and being a tough negotiator, is a new entry at 398th in the list.
The figures reveal that 58-year-old Cambridge graduate Levy was last year’s highest-paid Premier League executive.
He earned a salary of £4m and received a £3m bonus for completing the club’s incredible new ground on time.
Levy and Lewis were business partners when both previously worked in property development and together they took over Spurs in 2001.
The North London side are 85.55 per cent owned by their company ENIC, in which Levy and his family have a 29.4 per cent stake.
David Pearl, the club’s vice president, comes in at 269th on the list with a £500m fortune gained through property.
Spurs were last year valued at £1.268bn with the Levy family’s interest worth £319m plus a £10m ‘separate wealth’.
Lewis, left, remains the ultimate money at Tottenham with a £3.99bn fortuneCredit: Action Images – Reuters
Former Arsenal chief Alisher Usmanov is the richest UK-based Premier League owner, according to The Sunday Times.
The current Everton owner has amassed a £11.7bn fortune thanks in part to a £341m rise in his mining and investment businesses.
The Glazer family at Manchester United, Sheikh Mansour at Manchester City, Stan Kroenke at Arsenal and Liverpool owners John Henry and Tom Werner don’t feature as “they are not resident in the UK and the majority of their business assets are based overseas, rather than registered on the London stock exchange”.
But prospective Newcastle owner Mohammed Bin Salman will dwarf all the others if the Saudi Public Investment Fund’s £300m takeover is approved.
The Saudi prince and his estates are said to be worth £320bn.
But the takeover is being delayed due to the state’s alleged piracy of Premier League games.
And SunSport revealed how unrest is growing among top-flight clubs about the possible takeover, with at least ten teams believed to have concerns.
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Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
