Salford City (n/g)

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HerrLjunga

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The calibre of players they are signing is staggering considering where the club were a few years ago, they only became full-time last year.

This week alone they've paid an undisclosed fee for Danny Lloyd who played more than 30 times for Peterborough last season and now they've signed Adam Rooney from Aberdeen for an undisclosed fee (87 goals in 194 games).

The new Fleetwood?
 
At first, a few years back, i thought it was decent of them to invest in a local team, but bankrolling them into the league and filling the team with players ridiculously below their real level just feels like a power trip. its like they are playing a real life football manager game on cheat mode.
 
Clearly the class of 92 are bankrolling them way beyond the clubs means. After three promotions in four years they still only averaged just over 1,600 last season. Shirley at some point it'll go bang.
 
To be fair, 1600 isn't a bad attendance for the level below the conference North.

There are plenty of Conference teams, and a handful of League 2 teams, who don't get that many.
 
They made a loss of £596k in the year ended May 2017 and have net liabilities of £633k. I can't imagine they've turned it around in the year just ended so seems unsustainable.
 
Gordon_Road_Mat said:
To be fair, 1600 isn't a bad attendance for the level below the conference North.

There are plenty of Conference teams, and a handful of League 2 teams, who don't get that many.
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They only had the fifth or sixth best gates in conference north last season and given the investment, high profile and success they've had over the last few seasons, I'd say its poor. Doubt the director's will keep ploughing in the money for very long if they're only getting those kind of gates
 
Given they've gone from an average attendance of 139 in 2013/14 to 1626 last season, there's no reason to believe their gates won't continue to increase. Salford is after all a city with a population of nearly quarter of a million.
 
I don`t think that Salford City will win the 2018/19 National League but have little doubt that they will eventually become an EFL team and climb the divisions. At present, AFC Fylde, plus several others, are probably better N/League teams than Salford, but very few, if any, have growth potential to equal that of Salford City.
 
Adam Rooney will be on a reported £4-5k a week! Whether they get slightly bigger crowds than one or two teams in League 2 is immaterial, they’re shelling out vast sums of money. Straight after Gary Neville moans that more money should be going into grassroots football! Fuck him, and fuck Salford City. As someone else on twitter said, it’s basically financial doping.
 
If anybody watched the documentaries about Salford City, Gary Neville made it quite clear that they would work to a budget and not beyond their means. They did sell 1 player recently to a league club the full back I think. I can't see any of the gang of 4 pouring money in they don't seem the type.
 
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