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After joining up with Ken Griffin and Dan Gilbert, the Ricketts family's bid made Raine and Chelsea's shortlist of four for the takeover, as it entered its next ...

8. Continue the vital charitable work of the Chelsea Foundation, seeking to use the power of football and sport to motivate, educate and inspire. 7. Match the current commitment to Chelsea F. C. Women and increase the number of women’s matches played at Stamford Bridge. Following heavy backlash, more clarity has been offered of their bid because wow they have released a pledge of eight commitments should they be the club's owners.

Thiago Silva's wife, Belle, defended the Chelsea defender after criticism came his way during the 4-1 defeat to Brentford.

Thiago also took to social media to express his disappointment at the defeat, adding: "Good days make you happy. Success keeps you bright, but only GOD keeps you standing (Denzel Washington). WE keep going." He needs to relax, alright?"

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has split from his wife Sissi after 13 years of marriage. Sissi is said to have filed divorce papers in March.

Papers were lodged last week to get the divorce under way." Sissi worked as a journalist in Germany but is said to have given up her job to raise her and her husband's two daughters. Tuchel and wife Sissi married in 2009 when he was living and working in his native Germany.

Between 50 and 100 Chelsea supporters gathered ahead of Saturdays Premier League clash at home to Brentford to demonstrate against the Ricketts familys bid ...

Sources said on Saturday evening that Rock Entertainment Group had agreed to invest a significant - though undisclosed - sum in the bid. The 80-year-old later apologised. Over the weekend, the owners of the NBA team Cleveland Cavaliers joined forces with the Ricketts bid. In a statement released on Sunday the family said: "Over the past fortnight, the Ricketts Family has met with several Chelsea supporter groups and carefully listened to all their feedback. Now the Ricketts family has reiterated its intention to bring "diversity and inclusion" to Chelsea - along with other promises including a stadium upgrade on their Stamford Bridge ground. The Ricketts family has made a list of promises to Chelsea fans should their takeover bid be successful, including a vow never to sign the Blues up to a European Super League.

Thomas Tuchel has requested Chelsea fans create a good atmosphere at Stamford Bridge on Wednesday night for their Champions League tie against Real Madrid.

After the third goal, we had a disallowed goal, a pressing situation against the goalkeeper, and another big chance from Kai Havertz. We missed all three of them and there was a feeling that it wasn't our day. "After so many wins and so many good results, I will now refuse to make a drama out of it. "It was also warm, it was difficult to create chances which is normal so you have to wait for this one moment.

The owners of the Chicago Cubs have laid out their vision for Chelsea should they succeed in their bid to buy the...

The family also said it would “put diversity and inclusion” at the heart of the club, and “make no change to the club's name, badge and crest or Chelsea blue, without the consent of supporters." Among its pledges, the Ricketts family said “we will never participate in a European Super League and always protect the integrity and heritage of Chelsea FC.” And it includes a pledge to never participate in a European Super League.

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has provided an injury boost ahead of his side's Champions League quarter-final clash with Real Madrid on Wednesday evening.

Then we will refocus on Monday." There are some reasons which we can put on us and we will analyse and digest it. We will dig in and try to find out why it was like this.

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has revealed what he told his side at half-time during their 4-1 thrashing by Brentford on Saturday afternoon.

And it did. "We started very well. Speaking at his side's post-match press conference after the game, Tuchel revealed what he told his side at half-time to try and whip them into shape.

The Ricketts family raised the stakes in their controversial bid to buy Chelsea from Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich on Sunday when they produced a list ...

We will match the current commitment to Chelsea FC Women and increase the number of women’s matches played at Stamford Bridge. We will create an advisory committee with diverse representation to ensure our decisions are informed by: a former men’s and women’s first team player, members of the Chelsea Supporters’ Trust and Chelsea Pitch Owners, and influential community leaders. Now they have laid out their vision for Chelsea’s future should they win the race to buy the west London club after discussions with several supporters groups in the last fortnight.

The Ricketts family have outlined a list of promises should they buy Chelsea, including rejecting participation in a European Super League.

The Ricketts family said the CST would have a seat on an advisory committee. Steve Nicol singles out Chelsea's inability to convert chances as their biggest problem against Brentford. (1:27) Steve Nicol singles out Chelsea's inability to convert chances as their biggest problem against Brentford. (1:27)

LONDON (AP) — The owners of the Chicago Cubs have laid out their vision for Chelsea should they succeed in their bid to buy the English club.

(Reuters) - The Ricketts family have outlined a list of commitments if they win the bid to buy Chelsea, saying they would never allow the Premier Leag...

The Ricketts family said they would have a seat on an advisory committee. Other commitments include investing in the first team and academy to “continue winning trophies” and ensuring the women’s team also plays matches at Stamford Bridge. (Reuters) – The Ricketts family have outlined a list of commitments if they win the bid to buy Chelsea, saying they would never allow the Premier League club to participate in a European Super League while also exploring the option of redeveloping Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea fans protested against the Ricketts bid before Brentford game; in 2019, leaked emails showed family patriarch Joe Ricketts used Islamophobic ...

"Yesterday we conducted a snap survey of our membership. We asked our membership whether, based on information in the public domain as of April 1, they had confidence that the Ricketts family would run an inclusive and successful club, and we asked whether they supported the Ricketts family's bid. "This is reflective of wider concerns articulated by large, vocal sections of Chelsea's supporter base. "We also committed to surveying our members as to their confidence and support in the Ricketts family's bid for Chelsea FC. "The CST Board is guided by our membership, and thus we do not currently believe it is in the best interests of our members for the Ricketts family's bid to succeed. The 80-year-old later apologised.

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We're expecting to hear plenty of pre-match build-up throughout the day, that you can find in our dedicated live blog below. Keep the blog locked throughout the day so that you don't miss a single update from Stamford Bridge. The Blues return to Premier League action this afternoon as they welcome Brentford to Stamford Bridge. With all of the attention currently on the off-field matters in west London, it will be good for supporters to see their team back in action in the Premier League.

The Chelsea Supporters' Trust says its membership neither supports nor has confidence in the Ricketts family's bid to buy the Blues.

Tom Ricketts confirmed meetings with Chelsea Supporters’ Trust, and pledged to sit down with more fans in an attempt to prove his family’s suitability to take over at the club. We look forward to more meetings – including with the Chelsea Supporters’ Trust – over the coming days and to making a public reiteration of our values and commitments.” “We also committed to surveying our members as to their confidence and support in the Ricketts family’s bid for Chelsea FC. Similarly, 77% of members who responded do not support the Ricketts family’s bid for Chelsea FC and three per cent of respondents are in support. “Last week, the Chelsea Supporters’ Trust stated that the Ricketts family must urgently and publicly address supporter concerns – especially with regard to inclusivity, given both past and recent statements by members of the family,” read the CST statement. Chelsea fans also organised a protest against the Ricketts’ candidacy before Saturday’s Premier League match against Brentford at Stamford Bridge. Joe Ricketts, the family patriarch, who has no role at the Cubs or in the bid to buy Chelsea, described Muslims as “my enemy” in leaked emails from 2019.

The Chelsea Supporters' Trust (CST) said on Saturday that 77% of its members do not support the Ricketts family's bid for the Premier League club.

It made similar comments in a statement on March 23. "It is essential that the new owners of Chelsea FC have the confidence of the supporter base and demonstrate an understanding of the values that we stand for," CST said in a statement. The Chelsea Supporters' Trust (CST) said on Saturday that 77% of its members do not support the Ricketts family's bid for the Premier League club, in the wake of a fan backlash over previous racist remarks by members of the family.

Thomas Tuchel has delivered his reasoning for his Chelsea team selection to face Brentford in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon.

It’s to focus on our routine, focus on what makes us a strong team and to do this in the best way possible because that helps everybody. There are a lot of competitions where we are in the race. "On the other hand Ruben played the last game and was here the whole week.

Chelsea capitulated at home to Brentford as goals from Janelt, Eriksen and Wissa saw the Bees thrash the European champions.

Moments later, he found himself through on goal and while his first touch got past Raya, it ended on the wrong side of the post. Hakim Ziyech had come closest, forcing David Raya into a fingertip save and at the other end, Ivan Toney heading over after winning an aerial battle with Rudiger. Brentford netted four times in a remarkable second half after falling behind to a 35-yard strike from Antonio Rudiger, whose speculative efforts have become a running joke among Chelsea fans.

Christian Eriksen scores his first club goal since returning to soccer! Brentford lead 2-1. There have been THREE Goals in the past 8 minutes! : @USA_Network ...

Yoane Wissa came into the match in the 85th minute and, at this point, teams should be scared of him entering as only a minute later he put Brentford up 4-1. Janelt completed his brace in the 60th minute, this time scoring with thanks to an assist from Ivan Toney. Chelsea did all they could to change the tide with N'Golo Kante and Timo Werner being taken out for Romelu Lukaku and Mateo Kovacic but it wouldn't be enough. Eriksen is fully back in the thick of things after recovery from the heart attack he had on the field for Denmark at Euro 2020.

Tom Ricketts has issued a statement reassuring Chelsea supporters over his family's takeover bid for the club amid fan backlash.

"We believe these are far-reaching and certainly include an absolute commitment on the part of the Ricketts Family and the bid team to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of the club. He said: "Over the past fortnight, our bid team has met with several supporter groups to explain our vision for Chelsea Football Club. In those meetings, and by letter to all groups, we have shared a set of specific commitment we will make to fans, if our bid is successful. The Ricketts family, along with hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, are heading up a bid for Chelsea and made the Club and Raine's shortlist of four of preferred bidders.

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Christian Eriksen can't stop scoring since his return to competitive soccer. The Denmark international's latest goal was his first for Brentford in a ...

Arsenal could trim the deficit to Chelsea to two points with a win at Crystal Palace on Monday. Chelsea’s fans started the day promising a protest against prospective new owners, the Ricketts family, with the club owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich up for sale. Brentford is 11 points clear of the relegation zone after its best win since promotion. The avian flu is in North Carolina. Here’s what to know, and what to expect Chelsea had shut out much of the takeover noise to fine effect with the winning run but Thomas Tuchel will need all his powers of man-management to set the Blues back on track, with a quarterfinal against Real Madrid in the Champions League coming up on Wednesday. Chelsea’s fine run of six wins on the spin in all competitions came to a crashing halt, with the Blues perhaps looking over their shoulders in the league.

"I don't know why," said manager Thomas Tuchel of Chelsea's first loss to Brentford since 1939, a 4-1 rout on Saturday.

They went through their full repertoire of songs, and the third brought the first rendition of "We're just a bus stop in Hounslow" -- a self-deprecating song referring to previous bating from Queens Park Rangers fans. After the third goal we had a disallowed goal and then we had a big, big chance from Kai Havertz and we missed them. "We timed it perfectly to score the four goals in front of our fans," Frank said. He will hope this result was a mere blip rather than the start of the season falling apart. He said prematch the team "were not affected" by the protests, but still it was a little eerie outside the stadium with the giant merchandise shop shut, and souvenir vans lying empty. Lesser teams would have buckled having gone behind, but Brentford used it as the fillip to go up another gear and Janelt struck the equaliser just two minutes later. In their first season in the Premier League, this was Brentford's biggest win of the campaign, and one of the most impressive in the club's history. Normally the goal is exactly what we wanted to open up new spaces but the opposite happened, and I don't know why." In a CST survey, they said 77% of its members did not back the Ricketts' bid. What followed was a brutal exposure of the hosts' fragile state as Christian Eriksen, Mads Roerslev and Bryan Mbuemo orchestrated a historic 4-1 win for Brentford. With the club up for sale, four bids remain ahead of the April 11 deadline. "Christian is a top player," Frank said Saturday. "He's an ongoing fairytale and I'm very pleased for that.

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has admitted that Saturday's 4-1 defeat by Brentford took him by surprise as he said: "We stopped defending."

Then we gave the game away very cheaply." "They made the most of it in those 10 minutes. "It was very untypical of us.

LONDON (AP) — Christian Eriksen can't stop scoring since his return to competitive soccer.

The Chelsea Supporters' Trust believe the Ricketts family's bid is not "in the best interests" of the Stamford Bridge club.A snap survey of members...

“The CST Board is guided by our membership, and thus we do not currently believe it is in the best interests of our members for the Ricketts family’s bid to succeed. “Yesterday we conducted a snap survey of our membership. “Similarly, 77 per cent of members who responded do not support the Ricketts family’s bid for Chelsea FC and three per cent of respondents are in support.

A goal for Christian Eriksen, two from Vitaly Janelt and a late addition from Yoane Wissa earned Brentford a shock 4-1 comeback victory over west London ...

Brentford had already sent out warning signs with Toney having three chances in the first 20 minutes, firing over the bar and testing Edouard Mendy with a shot that needed tipping round the post. Hakim Ziyech had the best chance of the first half for Chelsea, letting rip a powerful shot from the right that David Raya tipped over the bar in the 38th minute. It was Brentford's first Premier League visit to Stamford Bridge and it looked to be going the European Champions' way when centre back Antonio Rudiger brought the game to life after a dull first half with his screamer of a shot from about 35 metres flying in off the post.

The Chelsea manager, Thomas Tuchel, insisted there was no need to overreact after side's 4-1 loss to Brentford and claimed his players weren't distracted by ...

“Why should we be distracted and think about Real Madrid when we are one goal ahead? “Every team has 11 players but sometimes you need key players to lift the rest by both playing well and their personality. “After so many wins and so many good results, I will now refuse to make a drama out of it,” he said. A reminder to keep on going and it would come with more fluidity. There are some reasons which we can put on us and we will digest it. Brentford made a lot of the 10 minutes we gave them.

By William Schomberg (Reuters) - Brentford coach Thomas Frank hailed the "ongoing fairytale" of Christian Eriksen's comeback following the near-fatal ...

“I was actually not in doubt… Brentford supporters had felt hard done by when Chelsea beat them 1-0 at the Brentford Community Stadium in October despite a second-half bombardment of the visitors’ goal by the Bees. The feeling was shared by the visiting Brentford fans who celebrated one of the greatest results in the history of their club against their more illustrious west London neighbours.

Well, it looks like their old panel at Cubs Convention and 2022 Opening Day aren't the only things the Ricketts family can't draw big crowds for.

Money will talk in the end and the three other finalists have plenty of it, plus they’ve managed to avoid active campaigns against their candidacy. This little gathering probably isn’t enough on its own to tank the Ricketts family’s bid, which was strengthened recently by hiring a new investment bank, but it can’t help. Well, it looks like their old panel at Cubs Convention and 2022 Opening Day aren’t the only things the Ricketts family can’t draw big crowds for.

In one of the results of the season, Brentford have defeated Chelsea at Stamford Bridge despite facing a deficit at halftime.

As Chelsea faces an uncertain future, a loss to one of the bottom teams in EPL sure won’t help matters. Fans have protested their interest, even before Saturday’s game. The result sent shockwaves across the Premier League.

The Ricketts family and Ken Griffin have been joined by the Rock Entertainment Group, which is headed by Dan Gilbert, in their bid to buy Chelsea, ...

However, Matt Law has clarified that it remains a Ricketts-led bid even if they do not have the controlling stake. He said in a statement: "Over the past fortnight, our bid team has met with several supporter groups to explain our vision for Chelsea Football Club. In those meetings, and by letter to all groups, we have shared a set of specific commitment we will make to fans, if our bid is successful. The Ricketts family have come under heavy scrutiny following comments made by family members in the past, as well as their sporting issues with the Chicago Cubs.

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has called for his side to remain patient after their first Premier League defeat since January as they crumbled 4-1 in front ...

I don't know why (we stopped defending). "Once we had it, we stopped defending and game three goals way in ten minutes. So we have to remain patient.

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel has insisted his side's 4-1 thrashing by Brentford was not affected by their upcoming Champions League clash with Real Madrid.

And it did. "Again, it's more difficult for us than them to play as the underdog and be well prepared for this match. The half-time speech was like this.

Chelsea head coach Thomas Tuchel “does not know why” his side “stopped defending” during their shock 4-1 home defeat by Brentford on Saturday...

“It is about us. “It is not about Real Madrid,” he said. “It was very untypical of us and I don't know why.

Thomas Tuchel has admitted his expectations of his Chelsea side were 'not too high' after they returned to club action following the international break.

I felt that we deserved the first goal, got a beautiful first goal and I don't know why the next 10 minutes cost us the game." I agree if we conceded the first goal and second one and could never catch up, but we were in the lead and in charge. "I am aware of it and I am aware that my expectations were not too high about this match from the start.

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel backed supporters protesting against a potential Cubs' Ricketts' takeover of the club.

In an attempt to diffuse the situation, the Ricketts met with Chelsea stakeholders, which included a meeting between Tom Ricketts and Paul Canoville, the club’s first Black footballer. We have enough to deal with at the moment.” Despite the backlash, the Ricketts did progress to the next round.

Chelsea News: Many players had returned from their respective injuries for the Brentford defeat, but some players were missing still.

Chilwell suffered a cruciate ligament injury in his knee that is set to keep the wing-back out for the rest of the season. So we have to figure out of it makes sense to play him tomorrow and for how many minutes." However, his absence from the back four was just a tactical decision rather than an injury one, which means we could see Nathanial's brother back in the squad for the visit of Carlo Ancelotti's side this upcoming Wednesday. He is part of the team and unfortunately, he couldn't help us like he did in the first match. I felt that we deserved the first goal, got a beautiful first goal, and I don't know why the next 10 minutes cost us the game." Antonio Rudiger had looked to get the Blues on the right track to another three points, but a remarkable turnaround in the space of 10 minutes meant that the Bees were able to walk away from SW6 with a historic win.

Chelsea put in a disappointing display against Brentford and will hope to bounce back quickly against Real Madrid where Tom Ricketts will hope there is less ...

The prospect of not finishing in the top four is not a worry yet, given the distance to the teams below the Gunners, but the connect between Brentford's fans, players and coaching staff at the final whistle offered a moment of pause. Throughout a tumultuous time for the club, the Blues have managed to show some outstanding form with Thomas Tuchel leading Chelsea to 12 wins in 13 matches ahead of the clash with the Bees. Home-made signs were present as the players walked out at Stamford Bridge, but the fervour of protest was quiet as the match got under way. We believe these are far-reaching and certainly include an absolute commitment on part of the Ricketts Family and the bid team to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of the club. He said: "Over the past fortnight, our bid team has met with several supporter groups to explain our vision for Chelsea Football Club. In those meetings, and by letter to all groups, we have shared a set of specific commitments we will make to fans, if our bid is successful. Their message: "The CST does not currently believe it is in the best interests of our members for the Ricketts bid to succeed". Then at 12pm at Stamford Gate a protest was underway. Supporters' displeasure is not always a sign that a takeover will not progress, the Glazers are testament to that at Manchester United, but given the competition for the Blues, the Ricketts may be feeling a tad uneasy.