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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Sport
Tom Victor

How world's richest footballer worth £13bn and who played for Chelsea has fared since exit

For all the eye-watering numbers we regularly see on football rich-lists, none compare to the wealth of former Chelsea youngster Faiq Bolkiah.

A May list of the richest sportspeople in Britain found a number of current footballers have fortunes north of £50m. This is a drop in the ocean compared to Bolkiah, though, who is worth an estimated £13bn.

If that sounds like a big leap, it's because the bulk of his fortune is nothing to do with his football career. The 24-year-old is the nephew of the Sultan of Brunei, while his father is a prince in the southeast Asian country, but he decided to go his own way and pursue a career as a professional athlete.

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