It would not surprise me if Koukash was already involved through an offshore company. How come we are still here, when Chalo took on the business with an academy to pay for, virtually no season ticket income and a debt to other clubs etc etc etc. And property developers and race horse owners know all about the long term nature of some plans. Koukash must after Salford appreciate the crowd and academy player potential, and know that there is an alternative to a sugar daddy throwing money at Aussie players, throwing money at British youth is far cheaper and long term more beneficial. Salford sorted, Tribunal sorted, then a press conference? I really have got the conspiracy theory bug!!!

As previously stated, I cannot wait to get my hands on the first set of accounts as that may give a clue as to the source of the funding for last year.

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I thought when Chalmers took over that uncle Marwan was behind it all and have not seen anything since to change my mind

I think this is a smoke screen to distract from Richie Mathers return.

Pete Dutton pouring cold water on the koukash theorists...

yes, its all a bit like Tolstoy going for an eye test and being inspired by the third line (H L A) to write War and Peace. So back to plan a: the accounts when issued.

Is Koukash as wealthy as is made out? Salford's £8m debt suggests otherwise.

Yes he is, however, I'd say this Dual Reg would signal Koukash is unlikely given his recent forthright views on Rowley on twitter

Yes he certainly is.

I doubt he actually is as he never appears in The Times' 'Rich List' which starts with those with a fortune of around £120million. And, as Bullseye's pointed out. Salford's debts appear to have more than doubled (in fact almost trebled) since he took over.

Salford are still operational though, so all the "debts" are just numbers on a piece of paper.

Salford (2013) which operated last season has 8m debts, but now no club, the new Salford holding company playing this season following the transfer of ownership from kousach has zero debts but a superleague club. Quick shuffle of the deck and a debt free super league club, nice work I'd suggest, but I really don't know how all that works, the 8m can't have just vanished, presumably koucash is still covering that on behalf of the old holding company?

Also, I don't think we'll be seeing koucash taking over odsal.

Chalmers shoots down Koukash rumours www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... f=mr&lp=10

Chalmers shoots down Koukash rumours www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/s ... f=mr&lp=10

Good.

If this comes off, then we should also bring Omar back, so that we can call the new owners ChaKash Khan