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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Mark Sweney and Michael Savage

Chelsea FC owner in talks over bid for the Daily Telegraph

Todd Boehly in the stands at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge ground.
Todd Boehly in the stands at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge ground. There is concern about his plan to team up with a Fleet Street veteran. Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images/Reuters

The Chelsea FC owner and chair Todd Boehly is in talks over a bid for the Daily Telegraph, in a plan that has seen him team up with the Fleet Street veteran David Montgomery.

Boehly is understood to be talking to Montgomery, the executive chair of National World and former boss of the parent of the Mirror, about mounting a bid, in an attempt to bring an end to two years of uncertainty over the newspaper’s fate.

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