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The BBC report that Coventry City are set to buy the council owned Car Park C land next to the Coventry Building Society Arena for £1.6m. The purchase has not been completed: it goes to a Coventry City Council cabinet meeting next Tuesday, 13 October, and is expected to be signed off there. The money is paid over ten years and none of it goes to the council. It goes to the club's charity, Sky Blues in the Community, which will be contractually obliged to spend around £160,000 a year on sport and cultural activities across the city for the next decade. Councillor Lynnette Kelly, deputy leader of the council, called it a win win and said control of the car park lets the club plan for the future and look at wider regeneration of the area. Doug King said the deal would bring Car Park C in alongside everything already in the existing head lease and simplify future regeneration. There are no public plans for the site at this point. Legends Global announced on Monday that Andy Price will be general manager of the Coventry Building Society Arena. He joins from Olympia in London, part of the same group, where he spent two years as marketing and communications director, and was previously commercial director of the ticketing and arenas division at the NEC in Birmingham. His role covers venue operations, food and beverage, matchday premium hospitality and non matchday revenue through conventions, special events and concerts. The ten year partnership announced in August is backed by a joint investment of more than £15m from the club and Legends Global over the next three years. Price takes up the role full time on 1 December. Andy Turner at CoventryLive reports Coventry's squad position coming out of the international break, ahead of Newcastle United at home on Monday night. Milan van Ewijk, who sat out the Nottingham Forest game with a slight hamstring issue, is expected to be fit this week, and Josh Eccles is hoped to be back training after a calf strain. Luke Woolfenden and Kaine Kesler-Hayden are due back in training but need more time on their fitness. Haji Wright is out with a quad strain until the end of the month, Aurele Amenda is out until Christmas with a calf tear, and Taiwo Awoniyi serves the final game of his ban on Monday. Eight Coventry players were away on international duty. Former Coventry striker Fabio Tavares has ruptured an Achilles tendon for a second time and is out for the rest of Rotherham United's season. Alex Bruce told the Rotherham Advertiser that the surgery is in London this week. Play Up, Sky Blues!