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Coventry City Council timetable targets Tuesday for completion - http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/ricoh-arena-takeover-bid-rugby-7873182

...but there's dissent brewing in the council ranks - http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/wasps-ricoh-arena-bid-could-7862848

Wasps takeover bid for Ricoh Arena targets 90% of ACL and could be agreed in private - http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/ricoh-arena-takeover-bid-wasps-7837217

Fair enough. Probably a bit too much of a daily commute for you as well I imagine.

Maybe you should apply for a job here. We've got a vacancy - http://www.mediargh.com/coventry-telegraph-trainee-reporter

Thanks Rob, interesting information on the potential Wasps deal. You must have good sources very close to the football club. RE the Telegraph's stance, I don't believe you will find any contradictions between the two editorial pieces written by the Telegraph. Any suggestion of "back-peddling"...

Sky Blue Thinking piece from Andy Turner - http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/sky-blue-thinking-wasps-invasion-7818179

More on the comments here: A council sanctioned takeover of the Ricoh Arena would be a "betrayal" according to the chairman of Coventry Rugby Club: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/rugby/wasps-ricoh-arena-interest-concern-7805937 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you read the CT comment as supportive of the move, you are misreading it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Before we printed the story. More than that, who knows? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Oh Nick! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That link doesn't work... If it's to the thread on GMK, I did see it after we'd published, but the only media stories linked talked of a possible relocation - not control. Neither did the articles categorically state that talks were ongoing as far as I can tell. Sent from my iPhone using...

The fact they were possibly looking to relocate there was reported elsewhere. The deal for an effective takeover of the venue / majority shareholding in ACL had not been picked up by anyone else. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I couldn't tell you that, or indeed if it ever will be. But I can tell you talks are happening, as reported. We could have waited until the deal had been completed and people would talk on the record. We probably could have even negotiated the exclusive. But we felt the public interest was so...

Keep fishing. I'm sure I'll bite eventually. Probably. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

...and even Coventry Rugby Club - http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/rugby-club-wasps-ricoh-talks-7801418

They want a majority share of ACL which would give them ownership of the company and operational control of the Ricoh Arena. Sorry if that's not as clear as it should be. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Has to be more than 50 per cent to be controlling.

It doesn't. It mentions "a controlling stake".

Potentially huge consequences for the Sky Blues - http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/rugby-club-wasps-talks-buy-7792990