Sol Campbell wipes £4m off London mansion after he is ‘cheated out of £1.5m’

Arsenal legend Sol Campbell has slashed £4million off the asking price for his luxury eight-bedroom Chelsea townhouse.

The former England defender, 48, put the Grade II-listed property up for sale in 2021. According to the Daily Mail, Campbell initially wanted £24m for the property.

But he has now knocked a hefty £4m sum off his stunning six-storey London pad, which is listed by estate agents Strutt & Parker. It comes after the iconic centre-back was left incensed by a tenant who reportedly cheated him out of £1.5m in rent of the property earlier this year, resulting in a court order.

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The Arsenal Invincible was forced to get an eviction order for the tenant after they failed to pay his dues. The renter claimed to have sold his insurance business for a whopping £1billion and had a two-year tenancy contract, having gone through estate agency Savills.

Campbell told the Mail: "Savills got the guy in. Initially, all seemed well. The tenant had apparently just sold his insurance business — for £1bn. He paid the deposit and three months' rent. But that was it: not a penny more was paid."

After hiring a private investigator, it was discovered that the renter was named in the Panama Papers which exposes the records of the rich and famous. Campbell went on to say: "He's apparently getting divorced, he's paying two or three staff, he's paying school fees. He's paying everyone — except me."

The property boasts six bedrooms in the main house and a separate two-bed mews house which can be accessed through an underground passageway. Having been designed by Campbell’s wife Fiona Barratt and refurbished last year, the lavish pad has its own cinema, library, kitchen and a lift where one can take in the stunning views of the Thames and Albert Bridge.

But it is far from Campbell’s only stunning property. The former Macclesfield and Southend manager boasts an empire worth £50m.

Alongside his eight-bed townhouse, he owns a nine-bedroom Grade II-listed Northumberland mansion named Hallington Hall, as well as a luxury penthouse flat in Chelsea.

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