Property tycoon who once tried to buy Chelsea planning rescue mission for EFL crisis club

READING are in exclusive talks about selling the club to a mysterious property tycoon.

SunSport has learned that Paul Taylor – a bricklayer turned banker and financier from South London – has been in secret negotiations to buy Reading for several months.

GettyReading’s mysterious new buyer once tried to buy Chelsea[/caption]

Taylor once tried to buy Chelsea and came close to pulling off a £10.5billion takeover of supermarket Sainsbury’s for the Qatar royal family.

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