Ex-Arsenal star is price ‘£10billion’ – however he isn’t the world’s richest participant
A internet price of £10billion should make you the richest footballer on the planet, proper?
Wrong. Former Arsenal midfielder Mathieu Flamini has made mega-money since hanging up his boots. Having based GF Biochemicals – a producer of sustainable chemical substances – earlier than the top of his enjoying days, his stake has reportedly reached £10billion, with the corporate mentioned to be price twice that quantity.
That is roughly 20 instances greater than Cristiano Ronaldo’s estimated £500million fortune. However, it isn’t sufficient to make Flamini the wealthiest ex or present participant.
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That accolade belongs to a participant you in all probability haven’t heard of – Faiq Bolkiah. The former Leicester, Chelsea and Arsenal teen, now 25 and enjoying within the Thai league, is a nephew of the Sultan of Brunei. That means he’s one in every of a number of heirs to a £200billion fortune, together with his particular person internet price estimated to be round £15billion.
Born in Los Angeles, Bolkiah moved to the UK and grew up in leafy Berkshire, rapidly falling in love with soccer. After spells at Southampton, Reading and Arsenal, he moved to Chelsea, enjoying alongside the likes of Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Tammy Abraham within the Blues’ youth ranks.
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According to one in every of his former Chelsea team-mates, Bolkiah was a modest man who by no means boasted about his wealth. Ruben Sammut informed The Athletic: “He was a humble guy, trying every day like every academy player. We used to joke he didn’t need to play football but he wanted to play because he loved football.
“It wasn’t a regular thing we mentioned. It was that typical banter, saying he is royalty, saying, ‘What’s he doing playing with us?’ But we all knew deep down how much he wanted to play, so it was more good-willed passing comments.
“We don’t know the ins and outs of the wealth of his family but he took football seriously, so full credit to him. He lived in digs like everyone else.”
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Meanwhile, Flamini has try and pour chilly water over his reputed riches, made by respect enterprise journal Forbes. He informed French outlet L’Equipe when requested if the £20bn valuation of the corporate was correct: “Oh no, not at all. It’s important to put things right. Contrarily to what has been said, I don’t have 30billion euros in my bank account.
“That quantity doesn’t correspond with the worth of my firm, GF Biochemicals. That quantity is the whole worth of the market we hope to get into, because of the brand new applied sciences developed throughout these previous few years.”
