A new bid for Chelsea football club has been submitted, largely driven by Stamford Bridge season-ticket holders who confirmed on Sunday that they had made an offer.
The British-funded bid sees London-based asset management firm Centricus join forces with Cheyne Capital hedge fund manager Jonathan Lourie and Talis Capital’s Bob Finch who was once a majority shareholder of Danish outfit FC Nordsjaelland. Along with the aforementioned duo, Centricus’ co-founder Nizar Al-Bassam and CEO Garth Ritchie are all regulars at Chelsea home games.
The quartet pitched their offer to American merchant bank Raine Group who are currently overseeing the sale given Roman Abramovich is prohibited from any involvement and no profits made by the sale can go to the Russian oligarch. They emphasised how club director Marina Granovskaia would be part of their plans unless it was viewed as inappropriate given her own ties to Abramovich.
