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Be serious. Football clubs do not normally grow by billionaires hopelessly distorting fair competition overnight. Even in the explicit franchise system of the uber-Capitalist US there are regulations preventing that.

This is the huge danger of Salford. I'm becoming more and more convinced that what they're really about is apeing the RB Leipzig model. Take a compliant vehicle - a small club with none of the baggage others might have and too small a fanbase to cause problems - and supercharge it with absurd...

That's not the only way in which the value of the football pound varies with location. It also depends on how close or accessible a club is to the centres of the football industry - the NW, Midlands, London/SE, with secondary centres in the NE etc. Just like in any industry, attracting workers...

We clearly aren't back to the days when Tisdale was working with peanuts in L2 and tiny peanuts in L1, but I still don't see anything in that list that indicates we have a better budget than most. I doubt there'd be a battle between L2 contenders to sign say, Moxey, Holmes, or either Martins if...

I'm surprised you did that. I thought I remembered when you had your serious financial troubles reading your chairman at the time saying that reaching the Championship was the worst thing to ever happen to the club in financial terms - presumably due to the money required to stay there. Then...

Which players?

i don't understand why these players would be so valuable. Prior to Motherwell Bowman spent almost his entire career at Conference level or below, with brief stints in L2, and his scoring record is mediocre to say the least. Aaron Martin has played remarkably few games in his career -...

It's Salford, innit?

. I'd certainly give up my season ticket and wouldn't continue to travel 200 miles to every home game. Whether I would go at all would depend on the exact situation. If it was a Salford Franchise Trojan Horse Into The Premier League thing I'd completely stop going, like the Salford fans who...

For the umpteenth time - many of us would say no to that. I would hate my club to become a Salford. Apart from the fact that farcical games of "Our Billionaire is Bigger Than Your Billionaire" and the footballing equivalent of buying your doctoral thesis off the internet repel me, I value...

Yes, but we have no rich owner and inherited a basket case from our last private owners. Most of those fees have gone into infrastructure and other costs and not been given to the manager - certainly not until at least 2017-18

That's a bit tenuous isn't it?

Do you have a source for that?

But look who we got rid of. I doubt our budget is vastly improved from last year's. We had the same insistence then that Tisdae had a promotion budget and it turned out to be only 13th.

This journo gets it. http://twohundredpercent.net/national-league-money-love/

I hate them more. I don't agree with what happened to Wimbledon, but at least the damage was limited to one club. If the Salford b*llocks is accepted and spreads there are serious dangers for a host of lower-league clubs who don't want to be ruled by rich men or who can't find wealthy owners..

Just found this post from an old Salford fan on Darlo's forum, which supports the idea that the old support has at least in part been replaced, just like the Class of 92 replaced a lot of òther things. The club is a franchise. https://darlofc.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=27450#p352598 "I'm...

In the interests of balance it seems Giggs grew up In Salford & his brother managed them once, so if you overlook the fact that he never previously showed any interest in Salford even when his brother was there, you could make the "local boy done good" argument in his case. Not for the rest...

It's even worse than that. Their father wasn't just the football in the community guy at Bury - at one point he was an effing director and even spearheaded the "Save Our Shakers" campaign during one of Bury's serial financial crises. Oh - and his mum was Bury General Manager AND club secretary...

Yes, but a traditional club with any sort of fanbase would have kicked off if they hijacked the club's identity like they did at Salford. At least Wrexham play in Red, but I would hope a fan-owned club would stick to their guns.