Chelsea's front-runners for ownership: How Blues bidders operate their American sports franchise

The deadline has passed, and the bids have been received. Following an amazing month in Chelsea's history, the future owner of the club, replacing Roman Abramovich, is connected to an offer sitting at the Raine Group's midtown Manhattan headquarters. (The Raine Group, Abramovich's New York merchant bank contracted to locate a buyer, might be keeping those offers at the financial advisory firm's London headquarters in Mayfair in....