{"id":312117,"date":"2025-12-12T13:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312117\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:32:06","slug":"mason-caton-brown-ex-salford-red-devils-winger-aims-for-sustainability-in-bid-for-liquidated-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/312117\/","title":{"rendered":"Mason Caton-Brown: Ex-Salford Red Devils winger aims for sustainability in bid for liquidated club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former chief executive Chris Irwin is also working with his own consortium to try and salvage the troubled club, with the RFL announcing a decision on which bid has been successful on 17 December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A mass player exodus, late wage payments and frequent appearances in the High Court over unpaid debts overshadowed a campaign in which they finished bottom of Super League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Salford also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/rugby-league\/articles\/c874040rjlno\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lost their top-flight status<\/a> in the end-of-year grading before last week&#8217;s appearance saw the club wound up with their former owners unable to reach a deal to settle significant outstanding debts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite the short turnaround to the start of the upcoming 2026 Championship campaign in mid-January, Caton-Brown said his bid had already made an effort to recruit personnel to be able to take to the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve already got a few agreements with some players and should this bid be successful we can turn them into concrete agreements with the players and I&#8217;m really confident we can get a full squad out on our first game,&#8221; Caton-Brown added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a coach lined up and he&#8217;s really really enthusiastic and ready to go. He&#8217;s been working a lot trying to talk to players as well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everything&#8217;s all up in the air but once we&#8217;re concrete in our bid then we can start releasing names and everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former chief executive Chris Irwin is also working with his own consortium to try and salvage the troubled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-312117","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\/312117","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=312117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}