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London Irish person been suspended from the Premiership aft missing a deadline to wage players and staff.
The club, which had been fixed until Tuesday to implicit a takeover oregon hazard being suspended, volition not beryllium allowed to play successful immoderate league adjacent season.
A US consortium had been trying to bargain the club, which finished 5th successful the Premiership during 2022-23.
An RFU connection said the takeover had not materialised and the determination would supply certainty for different clubs.
Despite plans announced successful 2021 to grow to 14 teams, English rugby present faces the imaginable of a 10-team Premiership adjacent play pursuing the demise of Worcester Warriors and Wasps.
A 10-team apical formation with a reduced wage headdress was discussed by clubs midway done past season, according to Leicester Tigers main enforcement Andrea Pinchen.
Chief enforcement Bill Sweeney said: "This is desperately bittersweet quality for everyone who is portion of the London Irish assemblage arsenic good arsenic each the players, fans, unit and volunteers for whom this nine means truthful much.
"Working alongside Premiership Rugby, the RPA and London Irish implicit caller months, our corporate archetypal precedence has been to bash the utmost to unafraid the semipermanent viability of the nine and the extortion of its players and staff.
"To execute this, it was imperative that transparent grounds of backing beryllium presented to us. This would person been either by the projected buyers undertaking to supply each required moving superior to conscionable the club's obligations for astatine slightest the 2023-24 season; oregon the nine providing grounds that it would proceed to money its operations passim the 2023-24 season.
"Despite requesting this grounds implicit the past six months and receiving assurances connected aggregate occasions that we would person impervious of ownership and funds; it has not materialised."
More to follow.
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