{"id":1071351,"date":"2022-04-29T18:27:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/29\/chelsea-takeover-todd-boehly-consortium-to-be-named-preferred-bidder-to-buy-club\/"},"modified":"2022-04-29T18:27:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T18:27:22","slug":"chelsea-takeover-todd-boehly-consortium-to-be-named-preferred-bidder-to-buy-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/29\/chelsea-takeover-todd-boehly-consortium-to-be-named-preferred-bidder-to-buy-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea takeover: Todd Boehly Consortium To Be Named Preferred Bidder To Buy Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Todd Boehly\u2019s consortium is to be named as the preferred bidder to buy Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>It emerged on Friday that Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Britain\u2019s richest man, had tabled a last-minute \u00a34.25billion bid to buy the west London club.<\/p>\n<p>But it would appear the group headed by LA Dodgers part-owner Boehly \u2013 which includes backing from Clearlake Capital, a US investment firm \u2013 is in the ascendancy with regard to the takeover.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea have told the consortium led by Stephen Pagliuca, part-owner of the NBA\u2019s Boston Celtics and Serie A\u2019s Atalanta, it is not the preferred bidder.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea hope to have a new owner in place by the end of May.<\/p>\n<p>Once the Raine Group selects a preferred bidder, the government must then grant a new licence to allow the sale to be completed.<\/p>\n<p>Abramovich put Chelsea up for sale on March 2, amid Russia\u2019s continued invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old was then sanctioned by the UK government on March 10, with Downing Street claiming to have proven links between the Russian-Israeli billionaire and Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Abramovich has owned Chelsea for 19 years, leading the club to 21 trophies in a glittering tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Sky Sports<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Todd Boehly\u2019s consortium is to be named as the preferred bidder to buy Chelsea. It emerged on Friday that Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Britain\u2019s richest man, had tabled a last-minute \u00a34.25billion bid to buy the west London club. But it would appear the group headed by LA Dodgers part-owner Boehly \u2013 which includes backing from Clearlake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1071353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10933,10934,5713,58,1665,7672,207,10935,7698,10936],"class_list":["post-1071351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bidder","tag-boehly","tag-buy","tag-chelsea","tag-club","tag-consortium","tag-named","tag-preferred","tag-takeover","tag-todd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}