Deadline for takeover or proof of funding elapses on TuesdayWasps and Worcester already expelled this season
London Irish are expected become the third team ejected from the Premiership in eight months with the Rugby Football Union poised to suspend the Exiles should they miss Tuesday’s 5pm deadline.
The situation is such that several players have been seeking to line up provisional moves with England’s Henry Arundell understood to be on Bath’s radar, Paddy Jackson on Newcastle’s, and the back-rower Tom Pearson believed to be of interest to Bath and Bristol among a host of suitors.
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