ROMAN ABRAMOVICH is the UK’s richest resident, with a £7.2 billion fortune. Actually, make that £7,185,000,000, because Chelsea are about to spend £15 million on Walter Samuel. The Mail on Sunday says that football’s least dusty wallet will be opened again to capture the Argentina defender from AS Roma.
Meanwhile, the Sunday Express is confident that Manchester United and Chelsea will swap Rio Ferdinand and Damien Duff. Rio has been contemplating his future — after all, he’s got plenty of spare time — and he wants to return to London.
Samuel is Marcel Desailly’s replacement, which will come as news to the fast-declining France international, who claims in the News of the World that he is staying for another year. Joe Cole also reckons he