Salford’s financial troubles pre-date the arrival of the club’s current ownership group, with the situation worsening prior to the beginning of the 2025 campaign.
In late 2023 the club had said it was “at risk” due to a protracted row of the ownership of their stadium.
Meanwhile, the club were put under a sustainability cap in January and were ordered by the RFL to sell players before the season got under way.
Almost two weeks after the takeover was announced in February 2025, the RFL eventually approved the change of control.
But RFL senior executive director Nigel Wood said it would be unfair for the body to take responsibility for the financial state of any of its member clubs.
“There will always be in any sport – I can point to Sheffield Wednesday, and I could point to Wasps or London Irish or Worcester – there will always be poorly run clubs that eventually don’t manage their affairs properly and they can’t defy gravity forever,” Wood told Sport in an interview earlier this week, prior to Salford’s latest adjournment.
“The law of the land and the law of insolvency will deal with that in the fullness of time.
“But just as there are poorly run clubs, there’s some excellently run clubs and I’m not going to sit here and try and take credit for how well Wigan run themselves and how well Leeds run themselves or any of the other clubs that we’ve got in membership.
“The only people responsible for financial mismanagement are the company directors of those companies that manage them and to lay that on the governing body by proxy is not really appropriate, in the same way it wouldn’t be appropriate to lay Sheffield Wednesday’s travails on the FA.”
