I'd have a lot more respect for Gary Neville if he'd just admit that Salford are trying to buy their way into the Football League. After all, there's nothing illegal with what they're doing. Instead he's just talking himself into knots trying to deny it.
although if it is only an interest free loan, that is hardly putting money back in.
Salford IS a large city with no football club of any note (until this money was piled into this team).
IF Rooney scores the goals that win them the title his fee & wages will more than pay for themselves (if people recall our relegation resulted in a loss in income of over £1million so Football Lge membership is worth a lot).
All clubs are where they are principally cos of the finances at their disposal. It IS a professional sport after all.
If we had no wealthy directors & just 200 fans we'd be playing with Lincoln Utd etc at best. If we had a billion to spend we'd roll straight through into the upper echelons of the Premier Lge. That's how it works.
I think you will find the club you are referring to in your first para is actually in Salford.I mean one of the biggest clubs in the world is in short walking distance from Salford!
I think you can accept that this is the way the world works (to an extent) and that spending loads of dosh is going to fire you up the leagues, but you can still lament it a bit! It doesn't make for good sport if it's just pay to win, and the gap between a Man City and the other big clubs in the Premier League seems actually smaller than the gap between Salford and the upper echelons of that division when they're paying 4,5,6 times the wages of the other clubs. That league is going to be a bit of a joke if they get going.
When we got out in 16/17 it felt so satisfying. We spent money but generally in the right way, on good conference players and on a par with a lot of other teams (and not the biggest budget in the division). Just think if the Cowleys had pitched up two years later we'd probably be finishing 10 points off a team with 5 or 6 league one standard players on 4 times the amount of our highest earner. Can't be good and I feel sorry for the other ex-league teams in there.
I think you will find the club you are referring to in your first para is actually in Salford.
It's actually right on the boundary line.I'm willing to bow to superior knowledge given your name but always considered it to be in Stretford myself.
I'm willing to bow to superior knowledge given your name but always considered it to be in Stretford myself.
complete vanity or exercises in ego.
It's actually right on the boundary line.
Eye that's the modern look but Salford used be called Salfordshire (Salford Hundred) which I included the subject areas, the following refers:Since the borough of Stretford was abolished by the Local Government Act 1972 Trafford Park has been in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford. It is divided from Salford by the Manchester Ship Canal.
I can understand the point of trying to fast track developing a side in a new town with a large catchment area and no football to speak of such as Milton Keynes - without stealing another club I hasten to add!. I just find the model employed in Salford and other saturated areas pretty pointless and complete vanity or exercises in ego.
I'm not sure I agree with the saturation point for Salford. There are only 2 major clubs within the M60 in Manchester - City and United. The rest are outlying towns - Oldham, Bury, Rochdale, Bolton. Then there are a number of smaller clubs - Stockport, Altrincham, Hyde, FC United of Manchester, Curzon Ashton. Salford are now higher placed than any non-league club in Greater Manchester.
Birmingham is a comparable size to Manchester and has 5 league teams to Manchester's 2 (including 4 major ones) - Villa, West Brom, Birmingham, Wolves and Walsall; with Coventry as an outlier. Then there is Solihull Moors in the National League.