Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe is still holding out hope of owning Chelsea after submitting a £4.25billion 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 eleventh 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.