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Twenty-three-time grand slam champion Serena Williams and seven-time Method One world champion Lewis Hamilton have joined Martin Broughton’s bid to purchase Premier League membership Chelsea, a supply near the bid advised CNN Sport on Thursday.
The supply was talking on the situation of anonymity, and whereas they’d not verify how a lot both was investing as a part of the consortium, they acknowledged that each had been investing as sport enterprise traders.
Broughton’s consortium consists of World Athletics President Sebastian Coe in addition to Josh Harris and David Blitzer, who personal sport groups together with the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation’s (NBA) Philadelphia 76ers, the supply added.
A second supply additionally confirmed Coe’s involvement with Broughton’s bid. Broughton is the previous Liverpool chairman.
Freud Communications – Hamilton’s communications consultancy – confirmed the Method One driver’s involvement in Broughton’s bid to CNN.
Serena Williams’ representatives weren’t instantly out there for remark when contacted by CNN.
Williams is already a part of a majority woman-founded group who owns Angel Metropolis FC within the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League (NWSL).
Broughton’s bid is certainly one of three left within the race to buy the membership from present Chelsea proprietor Roman Abramovich.
In March, Abramovich introduced he deliberate to promote the membership in one of the best pursuits of “the followers, the staff, in addition to the Membership’s sponsors and companions.”
This got here after he declared he gave “stewardship” of Chelsea to trustees of the membership’s charitable basis.
Afterward, the European Union positioned Abramovich on its listing of sanctioned people, whereas the UK authorities sanctioned him as a part of its efforts to “isolate” Russian President Vladimir Putin following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Abramovich has all the time denied being linked to Putin and rejected claims that any of his actions merited authorities sanctions.
