Exiles aim to add to Tranmere troubles

If the takeover talk at Tranmere Rovers comes to fruition, A$AP Rocky and Rihanna my soon be pitching up at Prenton Park.

This Saturday, however, Tranmere’s visitors will be Newport County.

There is speculation that rapper A$AP Rocky, whose girlfriend is fellow music star Rihanna, is part of an investment group led by celebrity lawyer Joe Tacopina which is interested in taking charge at Tranmere.

The suggestion is that Rovers could follow Wrexham by thriving under celebrity owners from the other side of the Atlantic.

For the moment, the picture is not so glamorous, with Nigel Adkins’ team looking to haul themselves out of the bottom half of League Two.

Tranmere are 19th, six points clear of the relegation zone, having won just one of their last nine league games.

There was bad news in the FA Cup last weekend, too, as the Birkenhead club were beaten on home soil by National League side Oldham Athletic.

Tranmere’s home record this season is poor, with only one league win so far, and Newport will travel north hoping to add to their misery.

Nelson Jardim’s side are five points and five places better off than Tranmere, having taken four points from their two league games prior to their FA Cup defeat to Peterborough United last time out.

Though they are in the bottom half of the table going into the weekend, Newport are only three points outside the play-off spots.