Two American fortunes fight to buy Chelsea

Two American fortunes fight to buy Chelsea

Boehly received an offer of financial support from the Californian investment company Clearlake Capital, which manages 60,000 million dollars. In addition, the Goldman Sachs group is advising the Boehly consortium.

For your part. Harris and Blitzer were sheltered by Sir Martin Broughton, former chairman of Liverpool Football Club and chairman of the International Airlines Group, and Sebastian Coe, head of World Athletics. AND

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The auction process and search for potential investors is being managed by the US bank Raine Group. The club is currently looking at the history of bidders in managing exclusive assets and their bids are assessed against fixed criteria: the amount of money they will put into charity and the funds that will be available to invest in the club and the stadium. , Inter alia.

These two millionaire groups join a bid in which the Rickets family, another American group, was already involved. The Rickets own the Chicago Cubs, a team from the American League of Baseball (MLB), which they have managed since 2009, when they bought the club for 845 million dollars and they aspire to enter the bid for the blue team.

The Saudi Media group, which runs several media outlets in Saudi Arabia and had tried to take over the club’s presidency, has been left out of the race to buy Chelsea.

Russian tycoon Roman Abramovic, who 20 years ago took over the ownership of Chelsea, began to listen to offers from potential investors due to sanctions on Russia, and the figures of the agreement could reach 2,500 million pounds (2,995 million euros). euros).

For now, Abramovic handed over the administration of the blue entity to the trustees of the Chelsea Football Club Foundation, although he continues to own the Stamford Bridge complex. Despite having won the Champions League on May 30, Chelsea closed the 2020-2021 financial year (ended June 30) with losses of 153.4 million pounds (182.7 million euros).

Source: Ambito

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