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Vital Football Legend
US magazine Forbes have released their annual football richlist and Manchester City feature in the top 20.
Spanish side Real Madrid continue to take top spot in the list, and those clubs in the top ten are pretty obvious when you think about it, although the wider top twenty certainly shows how the Premier League riches effect the world wide game.
Overall in their investigations they found that the top 20 teams are worth collectively 24% more than the sides that filled the positions 12 months ago, and clearly that was a reference to the increasing riches coming from the television deal in England, as well as growing revenues from kit deals.
Despite football's world wide dominance though, the Dallas Cowboys American Football side was valued in overall top spot at four billion dollars - which is £2.77billion if that helps put some of the figures below into context.
Read more: http://www.manchestercity.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=567170#ixzz4A7Y3aa4T
Spanish side Real Madrid continue to take top spot in the list, and those clubs in the top ten are pretty obvious when you think about it, although the wider top twenty certainly shows how the Premier League riches effect the world wide game.
Overall in their investigations they found that the top 20 teams are worth collectively 24% more than the sides that filled the positions 12 months ago, and clearly that was a reference to the increasing riches coming from the television deal in England, as well as growing revenues from kit deals.
Despite football's world wide dominance though, the Dallas Cowboys American Football side was valued in overall top spot at four billion dollars - which is £2.77billion if that helps put some of the figures below into context.
Read more: http://www.manchestercity.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=567170#ixzz4A7Y3aa4T
