The Ricketts family, owners of Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs franchise since 2009, are among several parties interested in bidding on the Chelsea Football Club, according to Mark Kleinman of Sky News.
The sale of Chelsea, a Premier League giant and reigning winner of the Champions League, comes in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and subsequent calls for club owner Roman Abramovich (among other wealthy Russian businesspeople) to face sanctions. Abramovich first distanced himself from the club before subsequently announcing his decision to put it on the market.
“The apparent interest of the Ricketts family, which owns the Chicago Cubs, is arguably the most eye-catching of the names to be linked to efforts to end Mr. Abramovich’s 19-year ownership of the club,” Kleinman wrote.
The Ricketts, who previously bid on AC Milan back in 2018, are one of several groups mentioned by Kleinman. Others include…
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