Worcester Warriors: Ex-boss Steve Diamond takes charge of Sixways takeover bid

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Steve Diamond was successful complaint of archetypal squad affairs from January, having archetypal arrived astatine Sixways successful November 2021

Ex-Worcester Warriors manager of rugby Steve Diamond is astatine the caput of 1 of the 2 main consortiums looking to instrumentality implicit astatine Sixways.

Diamond, who has fiscal backing from 2 arsenic yet unnamed investors, volition person erstwhile Leicester main enforcement Simon Cohen arsenic portion of his consortium.

"My extremity is simply a sustainable concern capable to vie backmost successful the Premiership wrong 3 oregon 4 years," helium said.

"Sixways Village is what we volition telephone it [the business] if we're successful."

Worcester went into medication earlier this month, were suspended for the remainder of the play and relegated to the Championship.

"Simon has been precise adjuvant to maine with the acquisition helium has of gathering a edifice erstwhile helium was astatine Leicester," Diamond, 54, added.

"But, for those who deliberation this sounds similar a spot deal, that is vastly secondary to what we program to germinate implicit the adjacent 5 oregon 2 years."

Speaking astatine a Zoom property league connected Thursday, Diamond added that helium has already presented details of a reborn Worcester club's endurance bundle some to Premiership main enforcement Simon Massie-Taylor and his Rugby Football Union counterpart Bill Sweeney.

The different funny consortium is inactive understood to beryllium the 1 led by erstwhile Warriors main enforcement Jim O'Toole, archetypal outlined successful August.