Head of South Korean company C&P Sports, Catalina Kim, has previously hinted that she has a keen interest in Chelsea amid her consortium bid with Nick Candy to buy the Blues.
Following the deadline for bids passing on Friday, all the Chelsea players, like the supporters, are anxiously and eagerly anticipating any final decision which could come at any time from the Raine Group. The likes of Todd Boehly's consortium, the Ricketts Family's collaboration with Ken Griffin, and Candy are the so called front runners in the takeover race, but other interested parties such as the Saudi Media Group are still firmly under consideration.
Whilst the Raine Group prepare for the next stage of the whole takeover process, manager Thomas Tuchel and co will be relieved to be on a much needed international break following a tough run of fixtures - something they have answered in emphatic style with six wins on the bounce. Off the pitch though, one group looking to find form is C&P Sports, who have joined forces with Candy to help the businessman find the funds to buy the club. The move has reportedly resulted in the bid by the property tycoon being raised to around the £2billion mark.
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football.london has had a look at what Kim had said on her Instagram account @catalina.n.kim following the news that a bid was lodged before the Friday night deadline.
The first post she made was back in August 14, 2021 when she was pictured holding up the Champions League trophy with the Blue ribbons that were earned by Kai Havertz' exploits in Porto against Man City. She captioned that post: "Lifting up the Big Ears. With CEO of Chelsea FC. Encountered 2021."
Her next post then came on February, 2, 2022 as she then was pictured holding up the trophy that was won mostly due to Kepa Arrizabalaga's penalty shoot out heroics in Northern Ireland - the UEFA Super Cup. The caption on that post read: "Lifting up a Super Cup @chelseafc."
As demonstrated by these first two posts, she does love trophies which could be a good sign for a Blues fanbase who have become accustomed to the feeling of silverware during Abramovich's 19 year association which saw 21 trophies accumulated. Her final Blues related post came in the aftermath of the Club World Cup Final and Kim posted this back then: "Watching #ClubWorldCup at #Gym.
"He [Thomas Tuchel] looks sufficiently handsome to me now..." With a combined net worth of around £10bn, a Candy and Kim joint partnership could have been one of the best options available with both billionaires' intentions seemingly to continue on the success of the Abramovich era before making money.
Her latest post (Tuesday morning) on a potential takeover bid outlined hers and Candy's plan going forward. It read: 'Thank you for continued supports from everyone for our process of buying #ChelseaFootballClub.
'We are very much pleased with our additional investor to the #BlueFootballConsortium. It is another one of the largest finance corporations from South Korea with subsidiaries under such as retail bank, Securities, Insurance, Credit Card, Asset Management, Real Estate Trust, Data Systems etc. They also have an exceptional track record of running significant sports teams.
'The new investor Blue Football Consortium secured has strong ties to big Korean corporations and institutions such as: National Pension Service of Korea (a public pension fund in South Korea, the third largest in the world with $800 billion in assets); Korea Investment Corporation (sovereign wealth fund established by the government of South Korea in 2005 with c. $180m in assets under management), Samsung Group, Hyundai Group, LG Group, SK Group, E-land Group, Kakao Group (IT); Krafton (Gaming), Lotte Group, GS Group, Hanwha Group, Shinsegae Group, NC Soft (Gaming); Smilegate (Gaming) etc.
'The fund will come with strategic partners that every football club needs for its stable and continued success.
'Very excited for the plan we have for #chelseafc'
