‘Project Ball’

[Man of Kent]

Salford up for sale

[Rupert Prince]

33 minutes ago, Man of Kent said:

Salford up for sale

New money... possibly, but it still leaves a finite number of quality players from somewhere to make use of it. 

Manchester City (as an example) bought big from all over the world. But an ambitious RL club wanting to improve its squad will find it fishing in a small pool of players.

[paulwalker71]

"Squad full of international stars"? 

[chuffer]

Tv revenue dropping from 95k to 45k?.....

[Dunbar]

The obvious solution is a TotalRL.com consortium to buy Salford. That way we can put into practice all of the great ideas we conpletely agree on.

[Desert Skipper]

1 hour ago, paulwalker71 said:

"Squad full of international stars"? 

Yes, that’s why the article says they are:

1 hour ago, Rupert Prince said:

“...constantly pushing for silverware”

Anyway, good luck to them.   We could do with a presence around Manchester.

[DoubleD]

1 hour ago, chuffer said:

Tv revenue dropping from 95k to 45k?.....

Quite, I was drawn to that and found it surprising 

[Yorkshire Knight]

2 hours ago, Dunbar said:

The obvious solution is a TotalRL.com consortium to buy Salford. That way we can put into practice all of the great ideas we conpletely agree on.

I've seen some pie in the sky ideas on here. The club would fold by the start of the new season

[Dunbar]

8 minutes ago, Yorkshire Knight said:

I've seen some pie in the sky ideas on here. The club would fold by the start of the new season

Ok. Let's not bother then.

[fairfolly]

Can,t see many businessmen in that queue to make £3000 a week.Would like to see the full balance sheet.A loss of £379000, to a profit of £148000, Some turn around,what if next year they are worse than this year or are they guaranteeing they will be better?

[DavidM]

That’s a wind up surely 

[Desert Skipper]

36 minutes ago, DavidM said:

That’s a wind up surely 

I notice it says ‘Rugby’, perhaps deliberately to confuse foreign buyers into rushing to buy a club that plays something they’ve seen on CNN’s world sports show or something.

Or maybe the advert appeared in ‘Desert Life’ and is aimed at misleading Middle Eastern country gents looking to expand their portfolio...

EDIT: the above paragraph was suppose to be a jokey comment, but I’ve just realised that was exactly what happened to poor Marwan!

[The 4 of Us]

5 hours ago, chuffer said:

Tv revenue dropping from 95k to 45k?.....

Exactly what I thought. SL money is £1.8M plus. May be that’s a red herring to throw off the scent but if the £3M turnover is right including SL payments that’s just £1M from commercial and crowds. Anyone got Salford’s last accounts to compare? 

And who stumps up the £8M to Dr M for his debt?

And England’s top flight. Not Europe’s! Championship club? Are any close to £3 turnover?

[Mark S]

It’s embarrassing that a club in a the premier RL competition is turning over £3m a year.

[Godzilla]

On 9/22/2018 at 11:19 AM, chuffer said:

Tv revenue dropping from 95k to 45k?.....

Would that be the appearance money for when they are actually on Sky ?

[fairfolly]

I wonder if that Balance Sheet would attract any potential backers on Dragons Den.

[The Hallucinating Goose]

On 9/22/2018 at 11:21 AM, Dunbar said:

The obvious solution is a TotalRL.com consortium to buy Salford. That way we can put into practice all of the great ideas we conpletely agree on.

Like relegate them?? 

[Quinskolar]

Project Ball? More like balls up. 

[Manx RL]

On 9/22/2018 at 2:10 PM, DavidM said:

That’s a wind up surely 

That will be posted in the London Gazette. Though hopefully not.

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

4 hours ago, fairfolly said:

I wonder if that Balance Sheet would attract any potential backers on Dragons Den.

Sorry, FF, but you couldn't have funders from Catalans buying into another club in the same competition...!

[fairfolly]

Nice one WWD