Bruno Andrade of Salford City Photo: IC

There are not many League Two sides that dominate the headlines in the football press but one exception is Salford City.

The Ammies are owned by Manchester United's so-called Class of '92 - Gary and Phil Neville, Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and most recently David Beckham - along with Malaysian tycoon Peter Lim. That means that lowly Salford, who languished in the lower reaches of non-league for much of their existence, are expected to be going places.

Such expectation is also why it came as little surprise that the club parted company with manager Richie Wellens a week after his side own the Papa John's Trophy at Wembley.

Wellens joined the club in November and departs four months later having lifted a trophy.

"Salford City Football Club has parted company with Richie Wellens by mutual consent," the club announced on its website.

"We would like to thank Richie for his time and efforts at the club and wish him well for the future.

"An announcement about a new manager will be made in due course.

"There will be no further comment."

While the club have been tight-lipped, there has been plenty of comment in the press and on social media.

Former Liverpool and England defender turned pundit Jamie Carragher was one to chime in, pointing the finger at his colleague Gary Neville for firing Wellens.

"Jesus Gil has got nothing on @GNev2," Carragher wrote on Twitter in reference to the former Real Madrid chairman who was notorious for firing managers.

"Firing a coach is to me like having a beer. I can boot 20 in a year span," he is reported to have said. 

"Even 100 if I have to." 

He did not quite make good on that but he was well-versed in dismissing coaches.

At one point Gil saked 15 bosses in the space of three seasons and he let go of 39 across his 16 years in charge of the club.

Neville and company are making a similar name for themselves at Salford.

Carragher retweeted comments made by Neville on Twitter about sacking managers so soon into their tenure.

"The scary thing is that a large % of these people now actually support these sackings as they've become accustomed to it," Neville had written.

"How can you build a football team without getting 2-3 years. A rule change is required to moderate ­sackings of ­managers mid-season."

It is not the only comment made by Neville that has been brought up to fuel claims of hypocrisy.

"I believe in managers being given time, I think they should be allowed to complete the work. The idea of giving people three- and four- and six-year contracts and then getting rid of them after 10 months is something that is foreign to me," Neville told Sky Sports in 2014 following the sacking of Manchester United boss David Moyes.

"It's something that I don't like about the modern game, the fact that managers get sacked every 12 months.

"I genuinely believe there is a lack of decency now in the way in which football managers get dealt with. They are so much in the firing line."

Neville was reported to be the one doing the firing.

The Sun reported that it was Neville who wielded the axe on Wellens after the pair held "showdown talks" following a 2-0 loss to Cheltenham Town last weekend. Wellens was gone on the Monday.

"You accept it's a pressurised job and they get well paid for it... football managers now get tossed around and chucked about, disregarded, rubbished. Decent men, good men basically just get thrown away and chucked in the bin," Neville said following Moyes' sacking at Old Trafford.

"We used to ridicule Italy and other countries for sacking managers every 10 minutes and now we've actually turned into that."

Little wonder that Neville said that he held no ambition to manage even when he was hired to become Valencia boss, so far his only role as head coach.

"I'm not going to say where I want to end up, and it isn't in management or head coaching, so I want to be clear about that," Neville told Sky Sports at the time. "That's not my ultimate goal of where I want to be."

His ultimate goal for Salford City appears to be promotion at all costs.

Salford, who have the biggest budget in the division, have won just one in their last eight games in the league and are in ninth position. They are six points off the final playoff spot in League Two with 11 games left to play this season and promotion is clearly the target for the club and its owners.

Wellens is not the first manager to fall foul of the ambition at the Peninsula Stadium, with former boss Graham Alexander let go despite finally taking the club to the English Football League.

Several have come and gone in the rise up the divisions and Gary Bowyer is the latest to take the hot seat.

The former Blackburn Rovers boss has been appointed to the end of the season having left his role as manager of the Derby County under-23 side.

"I'm delighted to be here. I've got to first and foremost thank Wayne Rooney [and] Darren Wassall at Derby County for being so helpful to allow me to come here," Bowyer told the Salford website.

"We have an opportunity, like everybody else in this league, to try and force our way into the reckoning to try and get into the playoffs and see if we can do that."

Bowyer has that on his CV already having got Blackpool promoted through the League Two playoffs in 2017.

Derby, meanwhile, said that they "wish Gary every success in the remainder of the season at Salford City and look forward to welcoming him back to his role in the summer."

They could see him sooner than that.