set to take place later this month,<\/a> and Burnham said clarity is needed over that before any long-term plans are made.<\/p>\n“We’re saying, because the council owns the stadium, it’s the council who decide who plays there,” Burnham added.<\/p>\n
“The council are ready to back a reborn Salford Red Devils in the Championship at the Salford Community Stadium and we’ve put that case to the RFL.<\/p>\n
“There is a court case looming with HMRC so we’ll have to see what’s decided there.<\/p>\n
“I just hope now there’s potentially path opening up for Salford Red Devils.”<\/p>\n
Asked whether any future for Salford would revolve around a so-called “phoenix club” rather than in its current incarnation, Burnham said: “Possibly, I don’t know, that’s for others to decide.<\/p>\n
“There’s still a situation going on with the current owners but I think there is a possible path for Salford Red Defvils to play next season in the Championship but still at the Salford Community Stadium.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Salford had a hugely troubled 2025 in the lead up to their fate for 2026 being confirmed. Financial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-204414","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","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}