{"id":372312,"date":"2025-08-25T12:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372312\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:36:12","slug":"salford-red-devils-owners-give-assurances-they-can-finish-2025-super-league-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/372312\/","title":{"rendered":"Salford Red Devils owners give assurances they can finish 2025 Super League season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statement also said that they received positive assurances about an upcoming winding-up petition from His Majesty&#8217;s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c39zvjwdxg1o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adjourned earlier this year<\/a> and is set to take place at the High Court on 3 September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has been a tumultuous 12 months for Salford, who have been plagued with financial issues despite a takeover by a consortium led by Dario Berta going through on the eve of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the past month the situation at the club has worsened, with a mass player exodus, problems with wage payments and their chief operating officer, Claire Bradbury, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/cvg3m812kv2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quitting her role,<\/a> alleging the club&#8217;s ownership suggested she &#8220;sleep with someone at the Rugby Football League&#8221; to ease their situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Salford said they would be &#8220;conducting a thorough internal investigation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club owners also informed us that they&#8217;re in the process of arranging a bridging loan to assist in seeing the club through to the end of the season and to enable the club to make progress in clearing debts,&#8221; the mayors&#8217; statement continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In light of the bridging loan being pursued, we agreed to work together in hopefully securing an outcome that maintains the club as a going concern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We understand how difficult this time is for the club&#8217;s fans and loyal supporters and want to assure you, we are doing everything within our power to safeguard the club&#8217;s future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The statement also said that they received positive assurances about an upcoming winding-up petition from His Majesty&#8217;s Revenue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-372312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115089439780975258","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}