MOSCOW, May 4. American bank Raine Group, which sells English football Chelsea Club, has rejected British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe's £4.25bn ($5.3bn) offer, Bloomberg reported. We will continue to engage with the fans, our bid is based on this,” said Tom Crotty, director of Ratcliffe-owned British company Ineos. The leader in the fight for a controlling stake in Chelsea is a consortium led by American billionaire Todd Bowley, who owns stakes in baseball club «Los Angeles Dodgers» and basketball «Los Angeles Lakers». The current owner of «Chelsea» Russian Roman Abramovich announced that the club was put up for sale in early March, before the government Great Britain imposed sanctions on him because of the events in Ukraine. Abramovich has owned Chelsea since 2003, under him the London club became the champion of England five times, won the FA Cup five times and won the English League Cup three times, and also won the League twice champions and Europa League.
