Sheikh Khaled bin Zayed Al Nehayan has pockets so deep he can put the billionaire owners of Championship rivals in the shade.
The 61-year-old, the mega rich cousin of Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour, is on the cusp of taking the helm down the A52 at Derby County.
Current chairman and owner Mel Morris has been looking for new investment for the past two years and is hopeful that will come from Derventio Holdings (UK) Limited, where Sheikh Khaled is listed as a "person with significant control".
Morris is expected to step aside if the deal goes through - but could stay on in a consultancy role. It is hoped that it could get over the line in the next few days, pending approval from the EFL.
The United States-educated and Dubai-based sheikh's money has snowballed since setting up the Bin Zayed Group in 1988 to deal in everything from construction and energy to technology and financial services.
The Abu Dhabi royal family's net worth was put at £118bn in 2018.
Sheikh Khaled's personal fortune is not widely reported.
In comparison, Stoke City's owners - the Coates family - was put at £7.166bn in the Sunday Times Rich List for 2020. That was 16th in the UK, up £310m and three places from 2019 on the back of the continued success of bet365.
Barnsley owners International Investment Consortium, headed by Chien Lee, have a reported net worth of £6.9bn, although how this is totted up has never been particularly clear.
There's £5.2bn Dejphon Chansiri at Sheffield Wednesday and Stephen Lansdowne has £1.87bn at Bristol City.
Queens Park Rangers' board is not short of cash either. Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, who topped the Sunday Times Rich List in 2012, has an 11 per cent holding in QPR.
Co-owner AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes is said to have a £580m.
He stepped aside as QPR chairman in 2018 to appoint Amit Bhatia in his place - but said: "I remain a committed shareholder and co-owner and will do what I can to get QPR back to the promised land."
Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis has a reported net worth of £505m,
He made his money in the shipping business and is the founder and chairman of Capital Maritime & Trading Corp.
The devil, however, is in the detail.
Championship clubs are permitted so make net losses of £39m every three seasons, which limits any huge investment regardless of the owner's bank balance.
