The consortiums bidding for Chelsea led by Todd Boehly and Martin Broughton have been told they are on the shortlist to buy the club.
The groups have been informed by Raine Group, the US bank handling the sale, that they have progressed to the next stage of a process that will end with Chelsea being taken out of Roman Abramovich’s hands.
Boehly, part-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, has teamed up with investors including the Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss and Jonathan Goldstein, a British businessman who is the chief executive of Cain International and a Tottenham fan.
They are understood to have been among the first groups to bid and were confident from the word …

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