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Looks like Aaron Carpenter will be looking for work: the rugby club he signed on with this summer is out of business.

The Daily Telegraph reports London Welsh has a tax bill due next week which the 145-year-old club has already indicated they won’t be able to pay. The Telegraph also reports Carpenter and his teammates haven’t received paycheques and have been told to go find other work.

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Wednesday afternoon, the club’s chairman confirmed the news.

“London Welsh has reached a difficult point in its illustrious history. Due to a playing budget of £1.7million and gates at games numbering as low 400, the Club’s current business model is totally unsustainable,” Gareth Hawkins said in a statement published on the team’s website. “The debts accrued from trading in this way have left the Club with no alternative but to seek liquidation. Having to break that news to 40 staff members yesterday was extremely difficult.