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Hello I'm Mark Chapman welcome to the athletic football

podcast Adam Crafton back with us today coming up Max later will take us

through the bids that have been made to buy Chelsea and which should be

taken seriously. We'll talk Crystal Palace and the work being done behind the

scenes that is bearing fruit on the pitch. And our Spanish writer Derm at

Corrigan was at the Bernabeu last night,

so he'll join us to share his thoughts on Rail Madrid thrashing by Barcelona.

So let's start the pod by looking at the bids to buy Chelsea with the athletics Matt Slater.

How many bids have been lodged?

Oh, that's a good question.

I'm aware of about 10.

I think there are probably a couple more that may have been that was certainly kind of talking about bidding or you know kicking the tyres and then there's always going to be a couple that have genuinely managed to stay out of the public domain, well done to them.

So I, you know, I, 10 to 15 would be my hunch.

All worthy of serious consideration?

No. Right, so maybe I should just start to that. How many bids are worthy of serious consideration?

Oh, half a dozen. Wow. yeah, yeah, definitely this.

And look, there's one that came out over the weekend, which I think is worthy of consideration.

And that was a surprise, well, I didn't know about it last week, it was in the Sunday Times, that's British

Beard, was kind of backed by a London-based private equity firm called Centricus and it's got a couple of other relatively well-known

city of London characters. They're all London, they're all Chelsea season ticket holders.

So I think they will be

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