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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Tom Victor

Chelsea sale: Two preferred bids now 'frontrunners' with Ricketts family knocked back

The race for ownership of Chelsea has taken another turn, with two bids racing to the forefront of the reckoning.

A number have suitors have stepped forward since Roman Abramovich announced his plans to sell up, valuing the Premier League club in the billions. Despite the Russian being added to the UK government's list of sanctioned individuals, plenty of bidders have remained undeterred.

Now, though, the group has begun to thin. Unsuccessful bidders are being informed one by one that they're out of the running, and bids involving Woody Johnson and the Ricketts family are among those reportedly missing out.

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