Richer than Mbappe: Meet Faiq Bolkiah, the wealthiest teen footballer

Kylian Mbappe may be the world most-expensive and promising teenager, but the Paris Saint-Germain star’s wallet is nowhere near Leicester City’s Faiq Bolkiah.

Mbappe was phenomenal for Monaco last season, triggering a potential record-breaking move to Paris in the summer.

Yet the Frenchman can’t match the riches of another 19-year-old who is yet to make a first-team appearance for the 2016 Premier League champions.

Born in the United States and educated in Britain, Bolkiah is the son of Jefri, Prince of Brunei and nephew to the current king, Hassanal.

Brunei is an oil-rich Asian nation, ranked fifth-wealthiest based on its petroleum and natural gas fields.

As such, Bolkiah has all the luxury in the world.

His dad reportedly lived quite the life of excess, blowing around ÂŁ10bn in 15-years as head of the Brunei Investment Agency.

At one point, he was said to be spending ÂŁ35m a month on cars, watches, erotic white gold pens and up to a ÂŁ1m a hit on karaoke parties with a swarm of beautiful women.

He also believed to have owned 2,300 cars at the height of his wealth, including a fleet of Bentleys, Ferraris and Rolls-Royces.

Jefri wasn’t afraid to embrace erotica either, once commissioning artist J. Seward Johnson to create a ÂŁ500k sexually-explicit statue of himself and his ex-fiancee.

Amusingly, he once splashed around ÂŁ5 million on a rug that was woven with gold thread and jewels.

When dad Jefri wanted to celebrate his milestone 50th birthday, he also wanted to impress his then seven-year-old son.

So what did he do? He only flew in the ‘King of Pop’ Michael Jackson to perform a private concert for him and his family.

Jefri paid Jacko around ÂŁ12.5 million for the privilege, which was chump change for the Brunei royal family back then.

But despite all the riches at his disposal, the youngster still desired to make his own name in the beautiful game.

That zeal has seen him test his might at AFC Newbury, Southampton, Arsenal, Chelsea and Arsenal.

He had the opportunity to represent the US but opted to play for his fatherland, which he current captains.