Blue Square Premier club Altrincham have signed Ryan Brown from Blue Square North neighbours Northwich Victoria to Moss Lane on `emergency` loan for the remainder of the season.
Brown, 24, is the first of Vics` full-time players to depart following last week’s decision to cut the wage bill by offloading the highest earners.
He leaves with just weeks to run on a two-years deal signed in the summer of 2008.
But the former Port Vale junior has struggled to hold down a place in Vics’ starting line up after missing the whole of pre-season following knee surgery.
That, coupled with the impressive form of newcomer Junior Brown, has restricted him to just six league starts.
However, he has amassed more than 100 appearances in non-League’s top tier for the Victoria Stadium outfit after joining from Leek Town in 2006.
