Chelsea fans given hope of attending Champions League quarter-final – provided club is not thrown out first

Chelsea fans could be allowed to attend the home leg of their Champions League quarter-final, with talks planned to prevent it being held behind closed doors. Telegraph…

Chelsea bidders have until 9pm Friday to submit offers with pressure building to complete ‘Project Caesar’

Bidders for Chelsea have until 9pm on Friday night in the UK to submit what they have been warned could be their final offers for the club…

Chicago Cubs owners the Ricketts family to bid for Chelsea with £20bn Citadel businessman Ken Griffin

The race to buy Chelsea stepped up a gear after the Ricketts family teamed up with Citadel billionaire Ken Griffin and broke their silence on the bid…

Premier League rivals concerned Chelsea will gain ‘unfair advantage’ by Roman Abramovich writing off £1.5bn loan

Premier League clubs have asked Chelsea’s under-fire chairman Bruce Buck whether the pledge by Roman Abramovich to wipe out the club’s outstanding £1.5billion debt could hand the…

Chelsea’s appalling error of judgment over FA Cup crowd suggests an epic lack of self-awareness

There have been some bad days in the history of Chelsea, most of which have come in the last month, and by the start of this week,…

Roman Abramovich moves his jet and yacht to Turkey – Chelsea V.2.0 could be next

Thanks to the miracle of flight-tracking websites we know that a jet owned by Roman Abramovich flew from Tel Aviv to Istanbul on Monday evening. Reportedly hot…

Chelsea forced into embarrassing climbdown after Government and Middlesbrough fury over FA Cup ticket row

A request from Chelsea had also been made to the Government whether, under the licence, they would be able to give tickets away for free for games….

Chelsea tell suitors to ‘show them the money’ as Friday takeover deadline looms

Prospective buyers of Chelsea are being told to “show us the money” by the bank looking after the sale in a bid to make sure a deal…

Chelsea expected to lobby Government saying they cannot afford to get to Middlesbrough and back for £20,000

Chelsea are facing a gruelling 10-hour-plus round trip to Middlesbrough and back for their FA Cup quarter-final after not booking flights for the game before Roman Abramovich…

Chelsea do not need to be destroyed to make point about problems in our game

There are precious few fanbases in English football who can choose their owners. Indeed for the majority, all they can do is choose how they react to…

Thomas Tuchel questions Premier League over owners’ ‘ethics and morals’ ahead of Chelsea sale deadline

Thomas Tuchel has admitted it is right to question the Premier League owners’ and directors’ test ahead of the week that could decide who takes control of…

Abramovich banners, street fighting and chants about wealth – this was a bleak day for English football

“Chelsea’s skint and the Mags are rich,” sang Newcastle fans swarming the width of the Fulham Road. It was a taunt that seemed tailor-made for a match…

Romelu Lukaku angered by claims he will take pay cut to force way out of Chelsea

Romelu Lukaku has no intention of quitting Chelsea and returning to his former club Inter Milan on loan. The striker has been left angered by claims in…

Chelsea plead with government to lift ban on signings and contract extensions

Property investor Goldstein is third member of Chelsea bid group By Ben Rumsby, Matt Law and Jeremy Wilson The man with whom prospective Chelsea co-owner Todd Boehly…

Revealed: Chelsea’s plans to leave Stamford Bridge in 2013 – and the sites they looked at moving to

In 2018, the club bought a portion of the adjoining veterans’ housing site, Sir Oswald Stoll, to the west of the stadium from the charity, with the…

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp calls for football to start examining source of owners’ wealth

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp says the Chelsea ownership crisis should refocus attention on how clubs source their billion-pound spending sprees. While Chelsea addresses the potentially catastrophic fall-out of…

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel backs idea of shirt sponsor being replaced by ‘message for peace’

Thomas Tuchel has backed the idea of displacing Chelsea’s now suspended shirt sponsorship with a message for peace following the Government’s decision to sanction Roman Abramovich. Chelsea…

Why Todd Boehly takeover would keep Chelsea in the hunt for football’s biggest prizes

Todd Boehly has been here before, 10 years ago in fact, when he and a group of investors were bidding against a certain Stan Kroenke to buy…

Chelsea fans should be banned from grounds if they keep singing Roman Abramovich’s praises

Imagine being a Ukrainian watching either game – as many will have been to see the Premier League clubs show their support for their heroic resistance –…

Exclusive: Chelsea stars plot escape by contacting lawyers over tearing up contracts

Chelsea players are exploring potential escape routes should financial armageddon hit the club as a result of the sanctions facing Roman Abramovich. Agents have been in contact…

Exclusive: Roman Abramovich gives green light for Chelsea sale to go ahead

Telegraph Sport can reveal that under the current licence that allows the club to operate while Abramovich’s assets are frozen and merchant bank Raine decides on a…

Chelsea ticket ban could force matches to be played behind closed doors

Chelsea face being forced to play matches behind closed doors following the sanctions imposed by the Government on Roman Abramovich. The sanctions included a ban on the…

Chelsea’s Roman Abramovich era is over – now can the club survive?

Now the question, in the space of a few dreadful weeks in Ukraine, is not how the Abramovich years made Chelsea into a super-club, but whether Chelsea…

What Roman Abramovich sanctions mean for Chelsea – from club sale to transfer embargo and fans at matches

Roman Abramovich has been sanctioned by the Government, freezing the Russian-Israeli billionaire’s planned sale of Chelsea. The Premier League club will be given a special licence to…

Every Chelsea success during the Roman Abramovich era is now tainted

One positive upshot of the Abramovich affair would, as Conservative MP Bob Seely has argued, be an end to the intimidation of a free media by “oligarchs…