7-time Components Just one globe champion Lewis Hamilton explained Friday that remaining element of a consortium bidding to consider over English Premier League club Chelsea was too terrific an prospect to move by.
Hamilton, together with American tennis star Serena Williams, could each individual invest up to £10 million, according to Sky News, as element of a consortium led by former Liverpool chairman Martin Broughton.
“Chelsea is a person of the biggest golf equipment in the world and most prosperous,” reported Hamilton, who professed a lifestyle-very long adore of soccer, “the most important sport in the world”.
“When I heard about this option, I was like wow, this is this is one particular of the finest possibilities to be a portion of a little something so great.”
Hamilton, talking forward of Sunday’s Imola Grand Prix, added that from the age of five or six he experienced been a supporter of Chelsea’s bitter metropolis rivals Arsenal.
“But my Uncle Terry is a big Blues fan so I have been to so several video games with him to check out Arsenal and Chelsea play,” he explained.
Hamilton mentioned he experienced been contacted by Broughton immediately after the declared sale of the European champions by Russian owner Roman Abramovich.
“Martin took time to communicate to me on the phone and defined his and his team’s aims if they had been to gain the bid, which was unbelievably enjoyable, and it was pretty a lot aligned with my values,” stated Hamilton.
Russian billionaire Abramovich set Chelsea up for sale on March 2 immediately after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and was subsequently qualified by United kingdom sanctions.
Chelsea have been granted a exclusive government licence to carry on running, while under rigorous conditions.
Abramovich cannot gain from Chelsea’s sale, but experienced presently vowed to compose off the club’s £1.5 billion ($2 billion) debt.
Apart from Broughton’s candidacy, which also has Planet Athletics president Sebastian Coe — an avid Chelsea fan — on board, two other bids have been registered, headed up by Todd Boehly, co-operator of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball crew, and Steve Pagliuca, co-owner of the Boston Celtics basketball team.
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