The race to buy Chelsea is only growing more intense as time passes and the field thins out, and now we’re really getting into the “information war” stage.
Every group has their chosen journalists to act as mouthpieces, and today the Ricketts family are complaining (via Mark Ogden of ESPN) that there are “dirty tricks” being used by other bidders in an attempt to discredit.
They reckon that journalists and fans are being pushed into reporting on their past transgressions by the other bidders, in an attempt to dissuade Raine Group from picking them.
We would imagine that groups like the Todd Boehly consortium are delighted to see their main rivals the Ricketts being put under the microscope like this, but the idea that they’re directly paying off or instructing fans on social media to report on what are very public and very well known racist comments in the past is a bit of a stretch.