Report: Raiders stadium talks in Oakland could end within 30 days barring progress

Despite announcing a proposal that would see the team move to the Los Angeles area and share a stadium with the San Diego Chargers, the Oakland Raiders have insisted that reaching an agreement to stay in the Bay Area remains their top priority.

Try as they may, both sides appear to be running out of time.

"If we don’t have significant progress within the next 30 days, I’d say one party or the other will call an end to it," a source close to negotiations told Phil Matier and Andy Ross of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Such negotiations can stop and start in fairly short order, much like they have over the past few years, but some considerable progress must be made if the Raiders and Oakland are to avoid parting ways for a second time in the franchise's history.

While the Los Angeles proposal certainly has the potential to work as leverage in the negotiations to come, it could soon become the Raiders' best option if talks break down in Oakland.