Friday, 11th July, 2014
Phil Neville has assured the Salford City fans that he and his co-owners are at the club for the long-run.
Neville, along with his former Manchester United team-mates Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt, bought Salford City earlier this year.
"We are not just going to do things to try to get us promoted in the quickest way possible”, Neville told ITV.
The former Everton man has assured the fans that they are going to run the club in a more traditional way and are excited to see the enthusiasm around their ownership of the semi-professional club.
"We see Salford as a class football club that does things in the right way. We want to continue with that theme.
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"But there is a real hotbed of football within the Manchester and north-west area. We have spoken to people in the area and I think they have been really excited, even people who don't support Salford City, for the impact we can have.”
The former England defender also said that they have ambitions of taking the club into the Football League, but they also want to give something back to the community.
"We are really excited to take Salford City as high as we can and have a lot of fun and make a lot of local people happy.
"We want to give jobs to local people and build up an academy. These are the plans we have."
Salford City are currently playing in the Evo Stik League First Division North – English football's eighth tier.
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