It seems that Garrido and the councilors did us a big favor when they stopped the loan.
If it had been given,we would have been going nowhere, thank god for democracy,and also it seems the
good Dr did not think much of the clubs books.

From what the doctor said I think Nigel Woods at the RFL deserves to become an honorary Salfordian.

Does make you think that they (the RFL/SL) see Salford as one of hell of a good shout to really progress. Wonder how long he's been interested in finding an opening to invest in RL and if Wood tried to sell him on Cas or Bradford?

You'll not be able to afford him - he'll eat you out of house and home!

Turning down the loan was not a decision made by councillors, it was made by the mayor's cabinet. I agree with the sentiments of the first post though.

lets all just hope that said councillors decide to sell their stake in the stadium so that we can at least own part of it

Of course the council will part with their share of the stadium they need at least some money back, if they don't sell and the reds go under they get zero loan repayments back. So it's either something back or nothing I think I know what our skint council are going to choose. It's peel holdings that will be more of a problem? But as sale are in free fall they have to think about cutting their losses too.

It's a given the council will sell for me to re coup as much money as possible and think Peel will make the decision to sell as it looks like its going to take them a huge amount of time start making a profit from the stadium. Peel will make a pretty much instant profit from the relatively cheap to construct retail units around the stadium.

I'd like to know if the Dr did end up owning the stadium would then ultimately Sale be paying Salford rent and then be looking to get the rumoured 3rd (though in fact 2nd) tennant moved in?

if we do end up owning the stadium outright and we have Sale and A N other tennant does that mean that we can spend the full salary cap because that is income to the club or does it still go off our crowd figures.

the income is on the club, so if the ground is part of the club then it will count. however the cap is about a set of rules.
income v plaers wages with a cap

The salary cap is simple, if you can afford to spend the full cap you can. It used to go off crowd sizes that was abolished some years ago. If the doctor can raise upto the 1.65 million salary cap then he can spend it. I'm sure one of the recent reports said he is planning to spend the full cap this year?

Do Sale still have the naming rights for the stadium

They won't have if Mr Kaukash takes over he'll want his own sponsors involved.

nice one.i'm beginning to like this bloke

Sale said they'd bought the naming rights. I'm not sure whether a (partial) change of ownership would change that without buying them back off Sale or offering them a refund.