Not sure how much more we could have done. We apparently offered a very long well paid contract but it looks like its not enough. Unfortunately we may have this happen again and again. However galling we cannot compete with better supported wealthier clubs. Until we have a new stadium and until we get a substantial sustained increase in crowds we will struggle to hold on to our better players. Warrington offer a better prospect right now than we do. Nice shiney new stadium National coach at the helm and as it appears more money than us. The lack of progress with the stadium has the potential to damage other aspects of our club and may ultimately cost us a franchise. Myler leaving for another club is perhaps the start of the end of our super league existence. Natural pessimist as i am i can only see a bleak future for us.The Stadium is a must have but where is it....

Erm, he left his home town club, that he supported as a lad, to come and play for Salford and the bright lights of Superleague. Why did you think loyalty was ever going to come into it?

Look... whether he has rejected it... or whether his agent has rejected it... what the hell do you suppose we could do ?

It's nothing to do with a lack of ambition... If he won't sign for whatever reason, then he won't sign. We cannot force him to stay. We've offered a huge contract... so what more can the club do. Best thing is to sell him now... It's absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH A LACK OF AMBITION.

I fully agree with your comments "LoyalFan"

In fact if Richard Myler is to become a Warrington Wolves player next season if it was up to me I would let him go now on loan.

The old and tested saying 'NO PLAYER IS BIGGER THAN THE CLUB' springs to mind.

But what I will say if and when young Richard does leave us at Salford he will get a good send off from the fans not like some players in years gone by..

well said lets hope the club gets a very very big fee for him , i wish him well , but offiah can foock off and should be banned from the club ,i never want to see him again ,he stole a living while at this club

I think that Salford are in a no win situation, similar to Wigan with Chris Ashton a few years ago.

If they dont offer him a huge contract then he will go. If they do it will probably be for far more than he is worth as he is a 19 year old that is far from the finished article. Salford then run the risk of being left with a player that might not fulfill his potential and may turn out to be average. Indeed a big contract at this stage of his career could ruin him.

TBH i'm glad he is going now. He is a quality player and i will be sad to see him leave us but if we do get a big transfer fee in the region of £500,000, that people have been stating, then we could get 4 or 5 good players to help us push for the play offs next season. Plus we'll have more extra cash with robbie and stapo going, who would of been some of our bigger earners.

We won't get half a million for him.

Warrington have been in a similar position in the past where they have lost quality young players so they'll obviously be happy that the shoe is on the other foot. Maybe a few years down the line we could be the team poaching talent from other clubs.

I'll wish him well, can't say I'm looking forward to seeing him in a Warrington shirt though if he does end up there. I'm not selfish enough to want him to fail as we need quality internationals coming through.

Offiah should be banned from commenting on the subject in the media - he really has made a farce of the whole thing and rarely have I seen speculation where the agent gets as much coverage as the player in question.

Hope he stays with you but it does not help with the silly comments Martin is coming out with.

Let him go and treat the whole thing as a great business deal as far as Salford are concerned - paid £2.50 for him, sold him for £250,000

It may be that his contract at Warrington starts next season, but our rebuilding process would start now. He would no longer has a place in the side and we start to rebuild with the team we have, with a view to signing more.

Nothing personal Ritchie, but your agent can explain that to you.

First priority is to secure Ratchford and Adamson - in fact all this publicity around Myler has done us a favour ( thank God Offiah isnt representing either of them).

Let him go, if he his not prepared to accept a big offer from us, it looks like we been had! We cannot at Salford build a team around one player, we also have two quality half backs in the squad.

Lets look at the cold facts, great signing by Salford, sell him for big bucks & lets get a couple of good young players or stengthen the squad in the centres where we need too.
We are not a Wigan, leeds, St Helens or Warrington we need to move on.

I have heard the debate about building a team around him, the problem with a club like ours one injury to our key player & we are in the , look at Willie Talau he was going to fill in at our problem area at centre? out for the season.

Well done Salford for moving quickly to offer him a bigger contract but do not be fools, if we can sign a few more like him & sell for big bucks it will be the quickest route to strengthen out team, we are no different to Widnes.

Finally I would prefer him to stay but the it looks like the big clubs have already snapped him up, lets just make sure we make them pay for the talent while we can.

I have a couple of points to make on this.

1. This whole farce (as offiah ahs made it) just goes to show how the franchise system coupled with the salray cap is not working and never will. Salford are never going to have the amount of money to spend as others have and so will not be able to pay players as much as other clubs. Thus any promising young players we have will get poached by other clubs who can afford to offer them the earth. So what's changed? The only difference is that we won't go down this season. They'll wait until the next round of licences and then kick us out because we "have not offered anything to super league". The salary cap should be a flat figure applicable to all clubs instead of some clubs being allowed to spend more than others (and in some cases still go over it and get away with it). Until we have more equality all that will happen is the big clubs will get stronger and the smaller clubs will continue to struggle and super league will continue to be battled out etween the same old clubs nd the sport will die however hard they try to expand the game into other areas.

2. Offiah as someone has already mentioned is only acting like any other agent would. I agree. They are all scumbags who exploit players and clubs for their own gain. They hold clubs to ransome and talk b****ocks to press in order to line their own pockets. Get rid of all of the parasites as far as I am concerned.

Chrismum

This year the salary cap is a flat amount - the bit where you were limited in what you could spend was scapped so it is now a level playing field.

The reason we don't spend the full cap is simply that the club doesn't have the money - it's been argued at length on various other threads, but essentially JW and the other directors bail the club out every year with loans that stand no chance of ever being repaid - without that we'd be a part time club and no chance whatever of staying in SL

Must say it all looks a bit bleak at present

Barton flyer! what looks bleak, Myler going, the lack of Stadium progress, lack of money or all of them?

If that was the case, he would have re-signed for Widnes.

PS

I hope this isn't a sign of things to come, transfer 'bids' being conducted through the media. It really is quite unsavoury, although all the clubs have been dignified/silent, there has only been one entity that has been vocal in the media; Offiah.

I would imagine he will be as welcome as a fart in a lift at the Willows, regardless of what happens.