How would Salford be able to assert itself if its run by a business team whose main priority is Sale? it makes no financial or business sense to keep 2 sets of sales and marketing and media teams and i would expect it would be the Sale side that would be kept on. If Kennedy was to buy Salford, it might not give him any physical assets, but it would give him top priority in the stadium. The ability to priortize fixtures to suit Sale's corporate hospitality and therefore open them up to increased revenue in itself must be worth the investment. Remember we chose friday as our business plan included generating a sizable chunk of our income through hospitality. it may only affect half our season but that could still be a significant amount to our club

Whilst they may not be looking lose or break even on match days, that may be the reality for them based on our average attendances, and i'm pretty confident they will have costed this

Even so, i doubt even 30 guaranteed games a year is enough to generate a £13m, 10 year contract, and yet they were prepared to sign a deal for that price and timescale based on half the games. Unless of course they are confident in making the remaining days successful.

Yes but as I said the rest is just guesswork , ATEOTD , it is a sports stadium , sports will be played there , that is guaranteed

From Azure's perspective, its a banqueting and conference facility that for 15 days/evenings a year (so far) just happens to hold a sports event. As far as they are concerned, matchdays are just another event to cater for.

Guesswork it may be to you and i, but lets not forget they are the experts in this field and have stuck their necks out to the tune of £13m, you don't commit that kind of money in this time of austerity without something to back it up.

Why would you think that Wilkinson is going to sell up and sell up to a Union club after all these years?

health?
needing a return on long-term investments?
convinced that the club will thrive in new hands?