Biggest loss ever at Morecambe

Morecambe chairman, Peter McGuigan, has said that gaining promotion last season from the Conference to League Two cost the club a lot of money and admits he is concerned that the proposed move to a new stadium must be part funded with new streams of income.

"Despite our success at Wembley and in gaining promotion last year we made our biggest ever loss as a club during the last season," said McGuigan.

"Going into the League has always been our aim but it does bring with it a whole new landscape in terms of costs. We have no scope to expand the way we really want to at Christie Park.

"Westgate would allow us the room we want to develop the footballing side of our business, including the new training facilities we so desperately need, as well as offering the potential to establish other streams of income without which I would have serious concerns for the future of this club.

"It would also allow us to increase the amount of work we do with the community, offering at least six nights of community use of excellent new sporting facilities."

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