The Ricketts family-led consortium that was one of the final four shortlisted bidders in the running to buy Chelsea has withdrawn its bid. The Ricketts family, who own the Chicago Cubs baseball team, had partnered with US billionaires Ken Griffin and Dan Gilbert and were planning to submit a cash bid for Chelsea. However, those plans have now ended, with members of the consortium understood to have been unable to agree on the final make up of the deal. The Ricketts’ withdrawal leaves three remaining contenders, who all submitted final offers for Chelsea to the Raine Group, the bank handling the sale, ahead of Thursday’s deadline: the bid led by Sir Martin Broughton , the former Liverpool and British Airways chairman, which includes the billionaire Crystal Palace shareholders Dave Blitzer and Josh Harris a consortium headed by Todd Boehly , the LA Dodgers part-owner, which includes backing from Clearlake Capital, a US investment firm an offer fronted by Steve Pagliuca , part-own...