Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe is still holding out hope of owning Chelsea after submitting a £4.25bn bid on Friday - but American investor Todd Boehly remains in pole position.
Boehly is currently in a five-day period of negotiations about buying the club, after the bids of Steve Pagluica and Sir Martin Broughton were rejected last week.
Yet Ratcliffe's offer at the 11th-hour is, according to the Evening Standard, still seen as a 'viable option' by insiders, with US merchant bank Raine Group still in the process of confirming the new owner to take over from Roman Abramovich.