Quick Throw: The English/Arab Premier League.

One of the Arab businessmen involved with the take over of Man City has revealed he is looking at another take-over. Chelsea. Dr Sulaiman al-Fahim is part of a consortium considering a bid for the South London club. Conflict of interests? Aren't there rules against having major interests in two EPL teams? There should be! And what's with the Arab invasion? First Man City, then Liverpool, and now Chelsea? If you ask me, rich Arab folks have just decided to leave the card table and play poker in the Premier League.

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Roman is burning

Time for another coup, Roman. Might be a good way to get back up to #1

(Via The Guardian)

Four Four Two has had another crack at their lists of the wealthiest owners and players in football, and Roman is slipping a bit. Poor lad. Might this mean the end of the retarded over-spending for the EPL's Big 4?

List of owners and players after the jump. Commence anger/surprise/ridicule in the comments!

Richest Owners
Arsenal has 2 in the Top 10, making Wenger's non-spending surely more frustrating)
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1. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Manchester City, £15bn in "riches")
2. Lakshmi Mittal (QPR, £12.5bn)
3. Roman Abramovich (Chelsea, £7bn)
4. Joe Lewis (Tottenham Hotspur, £2.5bn)
5. Bernie and Slavica Ecclestone (QPR, £2.4bn)
6. Stan Kroenke (Arsenal, £2.24bn)
7. Alisher Usmanov (Arsenal, £1.5bn)
8. Lord Granchester and the Moores family (Everton, £1.2bn)
9. Dermot Desmond (Celtic, £1.2bn)
10. Lord Ashcroft (Watford, £1.1bn)
11. Malcolm Glazer and family (Manchester United, £1.1bn)
12. Simon Keswick (Cheltenham Town, £0.97bn)
13. Trevor Hemmings (PNE, £0.9bn)
14. Mike Ashley (Newcastle United, £0.8bn)
15. Randy Lerner (Aston Villa, £0.75bn)
16. Tom Hicks (Liverpool, £0.7bn)
17. The Walker family (Blackburn Rovers, £0.66bn)
18. Mohammed Al Fayed (Fulham, £0.65bn)
19. Sir David Murray (Rangers, £0.6bn)
20. Steve Morgan (Wolverhampton Wanderers, £0.4bn)
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Well done, lad. Plenty of money in the kitty for when you stab Milan in the back as well

Richest Players
(Is anyone surprised at #1? I was certainly surprised at #5)
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1. David Beckham (LA Galaxy, £125m)
2. Michael Owen (Newcastle United, £40m)
3. Wayne Rooney (Manchester United, £35m)
4. Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United, £28m)
5. Robbie Fowler (unattached, £28m)
6. Sol Campbell (Portsmouth, £28m)
7. Ryan Giggs (Manchester United, £23m)
8. Michael Ballack (Chelsea, £20m)
9. Frank Lampard (Chelsea, £20m)
10. Steven Gerrard (Liverpool, £19m)
11. Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United, £18m)
12. John Terry (Chelsea, £17m)
13. Didier Drogba (Chelsea, £15m)
14. Nicolas Anelka (Chelsea, £14m)
15. Damien Duff (Newcastle United, £14m)
16. Dimitar Berbatov (Manchester United, £13m)
17. Ashley and Cheryl Cole (Chelsea, £13m)
18. Fernando Torres (Liverpool, £13m)
19. Emile Heskey (Wigan Athletic, £12m)
20. Gary Neville (Manchester United, £11.75m)

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Hey Big Spenders....

WOW WOW WOW....

Man City appear to have been taken over by a Middle Eastern company called Abu Dhabi United!

The ink is barely dry and City have launched an audacious bid to snatch sulky Bulgarian bench bum Dimitar Berbatov from under the nose of rivals Manchester United. A 30 million quid bid has been made.

How can we all keep up with the roller coaster that is Manchester City these days.

Former Thai President Trashcan Sinatra has managed to negotiate the new position of 'honoree President' at the second club in Manchester. Will this allow him to hunker down at the City of Manchester stadium and avoid jail time in his homeland? Questions, questions, questions!!

Like...Why did Manchester City sell Corluka to Spurs at the crack of dawn this morning if they just hit the jackpot with a budget that makes Chelsea look like paupers!

One thing is for sure it's an exciting time for the blue half of the City. The new owners have declared that City WILL be participating in the Champions League next season. Really? Next year? Well there IS seven and a half hours left to spend, spend, spend before the transfer window slams shut of City's nouveau riche fingers!

Tick, tick, tick...

-Bigus.

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