8. Mike Ashley
Net worth: $5.5 billion (£3.3 billion)
Famously shy and reclusive billionaire Mike Ashley bought a controlling stake in Newcastle United in 2007.
Despite pouring millions of his personal fortune into the club, the 49-year-old has frequently enraged the Toon Army for his spending policy and questionable management structure, including the comically bad appointments of his friends in the “Cockney mafia” Dennis Wise and Joe Kinnear.
Ashley opened his first sports shop in the early 1980s and soon became the tycoon owner of Sports Direct International plc.
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