Because they are a self styled ''community club'' set up to serve ''the community'' whether the community like it / want it or not and were parachuted into Moston under the banner ''This Will be Good for Moston'', as if everyone was supposed to be grateful, like everyone was just sat around for years doing nothing, waiting for such a facility to land on the doorstep.
All the extra stuff they do receives funding. The council got rid of services such as the youth service and instead outsource it to other agencies to do the work for them on the agency's own premises. The council will pay enough to cover the equivalent wages and a management fee on top - that is profit for the club and the council don't have the expense of running / maintaining an old and dilapidated building. All this nonsense about all our profits are ''ploughed back into the community'' is bollocks, firstly because they have never made a profit and secondly because funding to run these schemes are fully funded by the council.
The local councillor's surgery used to take place at the methodist church on Moston Lane. As soon as the stadium opened, it moved to there. So instead of the church getting the fee, the Rag Socks got it. They didn't bring anything new into the area for the community, instead, they took services from other agencies in and around Moston, that had served the community for years, for their own benefit and to the detriment of places like the Methodist church that now lost money they received for hosting surgeries.
The club really is the Emperor's New Clothes
