Football rich list: Manchester United drop to third as Arsenal overtake Chelsea

Published: 7:51AM GMT 02 March 2010

White hot: Cristiano Ronaldo has fit the income shelled out by Real Madrid Photo: AP

The Deloitte Football Money League sees the dual Spanish clubs secure the tip spots, but especially due to the stability decrease of the bruise opposite the euro.

Real Madrid has surfaced the "rich list" for the last five years but Barcelona"s rare success last deteriorate where they won five trophies has seen them pass United notwithstanding a 9% climb in income at Old Trafford.

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The strenuous prevalence of Real Madrid and Barcelona in Spain is shown by the actuality that no alternative La Liga side take up a tip twenty place, whilst there is a clever trace of Italian and German clubs, together with Bayern Munich who are fourth.

The dual Spanish giants have one poignant value in income conditions in that they come to terms their own particular radio rights whilst the Premier League have a common understanding that is common majority some-more similarly between all twenty clubs.

The majority important shift in the list, formed on clubs" income incompatible send fees, sees Arsenal leapfrog Chelsea, with the Gunners recording a 7% climb in income to �224 million compared to their London rivals" �206 million a 3% tumble in revenue.

Dan Jones, partner in the sports blurb operation organisation at Deloitte, said: "Chelsea"s income has forsaken since last deteriorate was a bit worse than common on the pitch, they had solidified deteriorate sheet prices and there was not a lot going on in big new blurb developments.

"Arsenal have the value in compare day income with a new 60,000-seater track and they done the semi-finals of both the Champions League and the FA Cup.

"All the English clubs were impacted by the stability debasement of the bruise opposite the euro and the scale of this is shown by the actuality that if sell rates remained at their Jun 2007 level, United would be tip of the income joining table."

Liverpool, who enjoyed an 11% income increase, rose a place to seventh on tip of AC Milan. There are 7 English sides in the tip twenty in Europe Tottenham are 15th, Manchester City 19th and Newcastle 20th.

Deloitte Football Money League 2008-09 income (last year"s on all sides in brackets):

1 (1) Real Madrid �341.9 million 2 (3) Barcelona �311.7m3 (2) Man Utd �278.5m 4 (4) Bayern Munich �246.6m5 (6) Arsenal �224.0m 6 (5) Chelsea �206.4m7 (8) Liverpool �184.8m 8 (11) Juventus �173.1m9 (10) Inter Milan �167.4m 10 (7) AC Milan �167.4m11 (15) Hamburg �124.9m twelve (9) Roma �124.7m13 (12) Lyon �118.9m fourteen (16) Marseille �113.5m15 (14) Tottenham �113.0m sixteen (13) Schalke �106.0m17 (n/a) Werder Bremen �97.7m eighteen (20) B Dortmund �88.1m19 (n/a) Man City �87.0m twenty (17) Newcastle �86.0m