Readers contacted the Evening Post to suggest that the club committee at Platt Bridge Labour Club had finally given up the battle to keep the doors open at the Platt Street complex.
And it was feared that the site was to be sold on to a housebuilder.
Club officials and members today denied the claims.

Labour Club secretary Ray Melling conceded that members had heard the rumours but insisted that they are not true, although times are tough for all social clubs
He said: "The club isn't being closed.
"We have heard these rumours ourselves. In fact our treasurer was accused last Saturday of having already sold it by one chap, but he soon put him right.

"These are very difficult times for clubs, but it is not closing, definitely not, so we are glad to be in a position to clear it up." Wigan councillor Brian Baldwin, who is chairman of the National Union of Labour and Socialist Clubs, said: "I know the club had a bad period with thefts some while ago but it is through that now.

"If there was a specific threat I'm sure I would know of it.
"But there is no doubt these aren't easy days for the clubs and many really suffered when the smoking ban came in.
"The other major problem is supermarket discount beers sales and the threat represented by the off-licence trade in general. I remember a little while back when Goose Green Labour Club was really struggling despite great efforts to attract members and customers.

"It needed to generate £12,000 a week just to break even.
"A friend was given a week's holiday relief work as a manager at an off-licence and she told me it was comfortably making £25,000 a week from alcohol sales, which just goes to show what the clubs these days are up against."