Prospective Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe is the wealthiest British person to own a sports team, but his fortune is put in the shade by some of his peers in Europe and the United States.
The billionaire INEOS chief, owner of French club OGC Nice, is one of those to publicly express an interest in buying the English club. Ratcliffe, who has pledged to "put the Manchester back into Manchester United," has been joined in the bidding process by the likes of Qatari banker Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani.
While Ratcliffe has been described as the richest man in Britain, he is not the richest man in sport. Using data from Forbes ' most recent list of the world's richest sports owners, Mirror Football has more details on those right at the top.