Chelsea Won't Be Sold To Owners From Two Countries

Roman Abramovich has put Chelsea up for sale, amidst calls for the club to be seized from him, but the Russian won't be selling to owners from two countries.

With the threat of that happening, and the club being seized from Abramovic, the 55-year-old announced this week that the club was up for sale.

However, that sale isn't likely to happen quickly. According to Joe Ravitch, the banker helping Abramovich find a seller, the billionaire won't be rushing.

A source also told the news agency that the club do not want to find themselves with owners that will be 'politically controversial,' considering the ending of the current owner's time in charge.

That means that Abramovich won't be selling to owners from China and Saudi Arabia, and it could also include other countries with poor human rights records.

However there was a greater backlash from football fans for the new Saudi ownership, due to the close connection with the country's own governance.

Whoever does buy the five times Premier League winners, whose success in the league all came under the Abramovich era since 2003, will have to spend big.

It is reported that the Russian billionaire is looking for £3 billion in order to sell, with £1.5 billion of that thought to be the debt the club owe him.

Britain's richest man, Jim Ratcliffe, was linked with a potential move to buy the club, but sources close to the Nice owner have since denied them.