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A Londoner who played for Salford Red Devils has said he has six-figure backing for a bid to rescue his fallen former club.<\/p>\n
Mason Caton-Brown has submitted an offer to buy the former Super League team after they were liquidated with debts of around \u00a34m, ending a 152-year history in rugby league<\/a>.<\/p>\n His Salford Red Devils consortium \u2013 dubbed The Phoenix Bid and including former chairman of the Forever Reds Supporters Trust Malcolm Crompton, businessman Paul Hancock and tech entrepreneur Ashley Washington \u2013 is understood to be one of three bidders remaining in the process, alongside a submission from former Red Devils chief Chris Irwin and one with links to the previous administration. The paperwork deadline is Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got committed capital from us as a group,\u201d former Jamaica wing-centre Caton-Brown tells City AM. \u201cPart of our consortium is local businessmen from Salford who have been longtime supporters of the club.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd we\u2019ve got me with the rugby experience. I\u2019ve actually been in this situation before when I played for London.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tSalford Red Devils rescuers? <\/p>\n Caton-Brown, 32, believes that due to the club being wound up and liquidated, and any successful new bid for the Red Devils license creating a new company, the successful bidders would not need to pay HMRC its tax debt, believed to be around \u00a3700,000.<\/p>\n Salford Red Devils went under this month after a fractious period under a consortium<\/a> led by Dario Berta, chief executive of investment bank Matanel, and did not apply to feature in the Super League next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n The successful bidders will have four-to-six weeks to build a club from scratch to compete in next year\u2019s Championship and Caton-Brown hopes that means Salford Red Devils staying at their council-owned home, the CorpAcq Stadium, which they share with Prem Rugby club Sale Sharks.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want to start and be sustainable over the next year and the year after that, rather than just one big gamble on this,\u201d the former Salford player added.<\/p>\n \u201cWe spoke to the council and to work with all the initiatives around rugby league in the city. We\u2019re open to speaking to anyone [including Sale Sharks].<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re submitting all of our plans and our business plan to the RFL [rugby league governing body<\/a>]. If we\u2019re not successful, we\u2019re still there in the background.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n