Rumours popping up today... Looking around some are confirming this and others are denying it.. The saga continues..
This from the BBC breaking news..
British billionaire businessman Sir Jim Ratcliffe has made a late bid of £4.25bn to buy Chelsea.
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich put the club up for sale before he was sanctioned for his alleged links to Russian president Vladimir Putin following the invasion of Ukraine.
Three bidders were in the running to buy Chelsea for about £2.5bn.
Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries said on Thursday that time was running out to complete the sale.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the billionaire owner of petrochemicals giant Ineos, has tabled an offer worth £4 billion to buy Chelsea - a fortnight after the deadline for new bids expired.
Chelsea were understood to be close to making a final decision over the three previously shortlisted bidders before Ratcliffe's 11th-hour offer came out of leftfield.
The British billionaire has been linked several times with a potential Chelsea takeover, but his brother has previously said there had been a difference of opinion over valuations. However, in a shock new announcement, Sir Jim claims he has sent a bid to the merchant bank, Raine, which is conducting the takeover process.
“We put an offer in this morning,” Ratcliffe told The Times newspaper. “We are the only British bid. Our motives are simply to try and create a very fine club in London. We have no profit motive because we make our money in other ways.”
Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe tables £4 billion offer to buy Chelsea (telegraph.co.uk)