
Richie Myler has confirmed Hull FC are one of the clubs watching Salford Red Devils’ situation unfold with keen interest.
The Red Devils are hopeful of a takeover going through before too long after months of financial uncertainty, but their situation might just depend on this week’s payroll.
Should the club fail to pay their squad on Friday then action would have to be taken with player sales set to be extremely likely from that point with a raft of Super League clubs lining up to pick off the clubs best players.
The Black and Whites have been linked to a number of players at the Salford Community Stadium, with Marc Sneyd and Deon Cross known to be of interest to the club. The Sneyd deal looks highly unlikely at this point, but Hull are on the lookout for more signings and they are waiting patiently for answers surrounding Salford’s financial future.
“Like everyone else, I’m waiting with bated breath to see what happens with the Salford situation,” Myler told the media in a Q&A at the club’s training ground. “We are in the market for players, and we’ve got scope to bring them in
“There is salary cap space there that is available for us to bring in the right player. We have made approaches for players from Salford; we all want a strong Salford, and we need to go around with 12 teams. Personally, as a rugby league fan, I want Salford to be there.
“There have been assurances made that will be the case, and we hope that it will be, but equally we are still in the market for players to become available. The lads (Sneyd and Cross) are talented players that would add to our group.
“We feel like we’ve got a very good core of players at the moment. We’ve got probably 23/24 players that would be in week in, week out, and then our younger players.
“If we can bring in two more players that are going to fight for starting spots, that’s definitely the element that we need to go for. We are in the market for that, but whether that is somebody from Salford or somebody from somewhere else, we don’t know, but we are in the market for players.”
On the club’s interest in Sneyd and Cross, Myler revealed they have held conversations, the Hull FC man added: “Marc is a different one because he doesn’t have an agent and as a club we can’t speak to him directly.
“I’ve had many conversations with Paul King over players and have said we’d be interested. That’s as far as it got with Marc.
“We said to Paul King that if there was a situation where they allowed him to leave, we would offer X amount of money. With other players who have agents, we’ve been able to speak to their representatives but terms didn’t really get discussed due to the fact Paul King is going down a different route and is holding out for investment.
“Ultimately, Deon is under contract with Salford and if Paul King doesn’t want to sell him, even if we’ve offered a transfer fee for him, it’s irrelevant.”
