Pic: Salford City FC
AMBITIOUS Salford City, owned by the Class of 92, have unveiled plans to redevelop their Moor Lane home after revealing their dream of playing Championship football.
The Ammies have been on an upward curve since the group of ex-Manchester United players – Gary and Phil Neville, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt – agreed to take over in March of 2014.
Under joint-bosses Anthony Johnson and Bernard Morley, Salford have secured back-to-back promotions and are currently seventh in the National League North.
Scholes says the club’s ultimate aim is to have “a nice ground and we want to be playing Championship football”.
To help achieve that aim, the club have revealed their plans to transform Moor Lane into a 5,108 capacity stadium also featuring a 600 capacity supporters’ club.
The plans have been formulated and are now ready to submit to Salford City Council for planning permission, which will be done imminently.
Speaking to the BBC, Scholes said: “You sense something big is happening and we want to take it as far as we possibly can.
“In the last two years we have won the league and gone up through the play-offs. The crowd is on the pitch, loving it. There has to be a purpose to a football club. The purpose is to go as far as we possibly can.
“I went to Stockport on Saturday. There must have been 500 away fans there. You don’t see that in the Football League.”
“We will need investment,” he added. “This is nothing bad against FC United because it is the way they have done it but they won’t take outside investment. They have a lovely ground and they have probably got a budget that won’t allow them to get out of this league.
“We don’t want that. I don’t want that. We want a nice ground and we want to be playing Championship football.”
