There was also a rumour from a journalist recently on twitter that Sale decided that the rent was too high.

Fingers well and truly crossed that this is true

So the rent will be too high for Sale , but affordable for you ?

You need to realise the more income the stadium can generate the less it will cost SCR to play there

Talking to a Sale fan, he believes that talks were back on as the rent was the only thing stopping them from moving in.

Call me a skeptic (or even doom monger!) but I still have the niggling feeling if Sale end up moving in, if things dont improve off/on field in the grand scale Simms et al are predicting in the press, that within 5 years we will be 'Manchester RL/RU'....maybe not even that long!

If the Salford public's apathy continues, it might be worth a punt.

Once the Port is up and running next door we'll be renamed the Peel Pirates

Peel Pirates has a nice ring to it!

i'd rather a football reserves play there rather than Sale.

I hear Salford pay 1mil a year at barton but isnt that to pay back the loan to the council? sounds alot but its 500k at the willows.

who does the stadium belong to?

Keep the stadium for rugby not football, there is more than enough coverage for it in Manchester and not enough for rugby.

Where did you hear that?

Not a chance!!!! your telling me we are renting it for 75k per game!!!!! ha ha ...no chance. I bet its about 15-20k per game.

and 500k at the willows? that would work out at 40k per game costs....again...seems an awful lot!! unless that includes things like a proportion of insurance, maintencance etc

800k a year at the new stadium.

Have you evidence to back this up?

If Salford have to pay so much, then i reckon they will be bankrupt within 3 years.

At present you are averaging around 4k spectators which probably works out at about £80k income per match.

Using the alleged rental price per year, then all or most of your probable gate revenue will be going on just playing in the stadium.
You dont own the stadium, Peel do, so they will take all the money from conferencing etc on none match days
Hence Salfords only income will be from the Sky money around £1 million a year.
Out of that you will be expected to pay for all the playing, coaching and admin staff.

We make more on corporate than crowds apparently....plus dcenet sponsorship deals...so hopfeully it will end up being comparable with the willows....where we have had to spend a lot on insurance...match days...maintenance etc -0 all this included in new staidum rental

Nope just what i am told of a few people with inside, apparently they wanted more to start with.

I can see the new stadium will kill the atmosphere with seating along the touchline

Took another ride down there again today.
Looks like the access road from the A57 works have started.
The artificial training pitch is compete.
What looks like the floodlights have been delivered.
Also looks like the building of the main stand is pretty much complete on the outside.

Very exciting times when you ride round the perimeter and see the scale of the project.

Oh dear

You only have to look at the latest accounts from Wigan, they paid just under 200k for stadium rental so 800k seems a bit high.

Why not go in the new shed behind the goal, I'm looking forward to having an "end" like the stretford end or the Kop will be great imo advantageous to fans n players alike.

Don't be too shocked fella, it was just a made up number in the first place.

I sincerely hope so

I'm surprised they pay anything at all, afterall a club that can march into the referee's room at half time to demand to know from the ref what they can do to reduce the penalty count against them.
Next they will be kicking try scorers gauging eyes and sticking up two fingers on national tv.

looking at the last photo in this:
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It looks like they already have the pitch ready.

my mate told me about the figures regarding the rent for the stadia, he is usually quite good with his info..

anyway feel free to pick holes out of the following maths, but if we are optamistic for a change and say we can fill the corporate seats for every game and get gates of around 8k at 20 quid a ticket we should be comming away with a nice little proffit.

corporate holds 750@ 75 per head = 56250 x 14 = 787500

8k crowd x 20 = 160000 x 14 = 2240000

add them together (my calculator is in meltdown) = 3027500 then minus costs......