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Tuchel praises focus of Chelsea players as troubled holders reach Champions League quarters

Chelsea’s German head coach Thomas Tuchel (C) celebrates after winning the UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg football match between Lille (LOSC) and Chelsea FC at the Pierre Mauroy Stadium in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, northern France, on March 16, 2022. (Photo by FRANCK FIFE / AFP)

The battle to buy Chelsea: what we know about the bidders so far

The Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss was first to go public regarding Roman Abramovich’s desire to sell and to declare an interest in buying the club. He has teamed up with investors including Todd Boehly, an American who part-owns baseball’s LA Dodgers, and Jonathan Goldstein, a British businessman who is the CEO of Cain International and a Tottenham fan. They submitted an offer between £2bn and £2.5bn some days ago and have been confident of winning the race to buy Chelsea but the picture has been complicated by the emergence of new bidders. Boehly, rebuffed by Abramovich when he made an offer for the club in 2019, has added the Times columnist and Conservative peer Daniel Finkelstein and the PR executive Barbara Charone – both Chelsea season-ticket holders – to the consortium.