Sir Martin Broughton is compiling his own bid to buy Chelsea, the PA news agency understands. Sir Martin Broughton spent a short stint as Liverpool chairman in 2010 in order to broker the Reds’ eventual sale to Tom Werner’s Fenway Sports Group (Peter Byrne/PA). Broughton remains the only person to have carried out a change of ownership at a top football club under UK Government supervision. The state-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland was Liverpool’s biggest lender at the time, meaning Broughton boasts first-hand experience of negotiating a Premier League club sale with Government involvement. Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned by the Government on Thursday, with all his UK assets frozen bar Chelsea.

Source: Express March 13, 2022 14:39 UTC