Sir Jim Ratcliffe's brazen attempt to hijack the sale of Chelsea to Todd Boehly has been laid bare in a new book which includes claims about his theatrics in the club’s boardroom.
Britain’s richest man, who now part owns Manchester United, made a late bid to buy the Blues three years ago. That was despite Raine, the US bank handling the sale, having already whittled down an initial 280 expressions of interest to a shortlist of three.
One of those was the Boehly-Clearlake Capital consortium, who eventually won the race, but only after Ratcliffe had apparently tried to gazump their offer.