Sol Campbell has reduced the asking price of his Chelsea townhouse from £25 million to £15 million.
The Grade II listed home occupies a riverfront spot overlooking the Thames and has interiors designed by his now-wife Fiona Barratt.
It features a main townhouse with six bedroom suites, which connects to a two-bedroom mews house via a hidden underground passage.
Campbell reportedly put the house in the exclusive SW3 post code on the market some years ago, but it is yet to find a buyer.
With a cool £10 million knocked off the asking price, it seems the football legend isn’t immune from the reductions in asking price happening across prime London property sales.
The Chelsea home has a reception room that covers an entire floor with south-facing views out over the river and the Albert Bridge.
There’s a home cinema room and a wine cellar, along with a lift serving all of the floors.
Campbell originally approached his ex Kelly Hoppen, who dated Campbell in the Noughties when he played for Arsenal, to refurbish the townhouse.
But it was Barratt who ended up completing the project. The granddaughter of the founder of Barratt Homes, she was working as an interior designer for Hoppen when she became reacquainted with Campbell.
When interviewed by the Times about the finished house, Barratt said: “It has nothing to do with Kelly.”
“This is the way I've always designed,” she added. “She has plenty of other work.”
Interior designer Hoppen, who lives in Notting Hill, dated Campbell for almost a year in 2003 before he dumped her out of the blue.
“He'd spend hours watching me design at home and we had this thing with the Weather Channel. We'd be glued to it for hours,” she told Tatler at the time.
“He turned round to me and said it was over. He said I was the only woman he'd been with for that long."
Like many prime property owners, Campbell has previously rented out his Chelsea home to wealthy tenants.
However, he told the Daily Mail that a renter had left him in the lurch for £1.5 million before he evicted him.
“'He's apparently getting divorced, he's paying two or three staff, he's paying school fees. He's paying everyone — except me,” Campbell told the paper.
The footballer had previously put the Chelsea townhouse on the market in 2014, fearing Labour’s introduction of a mansion tax on homes worth over £2 million, but took it off again when the levy did not come to pass.
Campbell famously played for defence on the England football team, winning 73 caps.
Having begun his career playing for Tottenham Hotspur and became their captain before he was poached by rivals Arsenal in 2001. Campbell won two Premier League titles at the club before he left in 2006.
Today he and his wife run a high-end furniture business together called FBC London, which stands for Fiona Barratt-Campbell.
