CHELSEA ’s QUEST FOR A NEW OWNER BEGINS

The final three suitors for Chelsea Football Club have been handed an eleventh-hour demand to stump up £500m more to buy last season's Champions League winners - just days before the potential anointment of a preferred bidder.

Sky News has learnt that the trio of billionaire-studded consortia were informed in the last 48 hours that Roman Abramovich, the Blues' owner, was demanding that the additional sum be guaranteed by his successors to augment what would be one of the biggest charitable donations in British history.

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Sky News