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The owners of Sheffield United have reportedly accepted a £115million bid from American businessman Henry Mauriss to purchase the Championship club.

Mauriss is again dipping his toes into football having previously attempted to buy Newcastle Unied for £350m back in 2020. The Blades are currently owned by Abdullah Bin Mosaad Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a Saudi prince who purchased a 50 per cent share of the club in 2013. He won a long and unsavoury legal battle with previous co-owner Kevin McCabe to take full control of the club in 2019.

If the deal were to go through it would represent a tidy profit for United's current owner as he was ordered to pay McCabe just £5m when he gained sole ownership two-and-a-half years ago. But where do United's owners sit in terms of the rich list for the 24 clubs in the Championship this season?

Perhaps surprisingly it is Barnsley who have the owners with deepest pockets. The most recent figures show that the South Yorkshire club's owners, the Chien Lee consortium, have funds estimated at £7billion. Barnsley are on the cusp of relegation into League One having reached the play-offs last season. The club is part of a unique stable of teams spanning Europe, with French side Nancy and FC Thun of Switzerland sister clubs.

City Football Group and Red Bull have similar multi-club arrangements although Barnsley's