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David Beckham and Gary Neville Buy-Out their former man United Class of ’92 friends to take over Salford City in a bid to ‘make a wrexham’
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David Beckham And Gary Neville have completed their takeover of Salford City.
The first Manchester United Stars were already co-owners of the League two-side, along with some of their former teammates and stars of the ‘class of 92’.
However, it was confirmed on Thursday that Neville and Beckham – as part of a new consortium – bought other shareholders after they picked up $ 15-20 million to invest.
Take to Instagram To share the news, Beckham wrote: ‘Salford played such an important role in my life … It is where I trained with United together with United together with United, where I bought my first home and where I and Victoria lived.
‘I am so proud to be part of a new property group in addition to my mate @Gneville2 when we start with the next chapter of the Salford trip. Football is central to this community and I can’t wait to see what the future has in store for the Ammies’
Former United -Stars Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Phil Neville And Paul Scholes are no longer shareholders at the club, but will take on different roles in the club.
David Beckham and Gary Neville have completed their takeover of Salford City

The 92 class bought Salford in 2014 (shown: Sir Alex Ferguson, Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, David Beckham, Gary Neville, brother Phil Neville, Paul Scholes)

The club is currently 8th in League Two after stagnating the past seasons
Spend against AthleticsBeckham said: ‘I will be about every big decision that has been made and every small decision that has been made.
“That’s what my dedication is for Gary. It is what my dedication is for the club. ‘
“We certainly don’t laugh and it’s not for the romantic side of things,” Beckham continued. ‘Yes, we care about the club – but we do it to win. We want Salford to be successful and we have been successful, but then we want it to go to the next level.
‘I always dream big, so I always want us to come to the peak of football and be in the Premier League. But there is a lot of hard work and many investments have to be made up to that moment.
‘The championship is a competition that we want to enter, but it is step by step. We want success very quickly, but these things take time.
‘There is a reason why we are not going up this year. So what is that reason? How do we solve it? And what do we do to place the team, the manager and the club to ensure that we are successful?
“But if we can do that, be quickly forward and in the championship, that’s what the dream would be.”
Beckham and Neville have collaborated with Declan Kelly, founder of the American consultancy Consello, and Lord Mervyn Davies, chairman of the Lawn Tennis Association, to continue with the acquisition.
The class of ’92 came this world with great confidence when they bought Salford City in 2014 and brought the club of the Northern Premier League North To League Two – a climb of four divisions – in five years.
When they reached competition two, Paul Scholes Baldly explained the ambition. “I know it’s far away, but the target must go to the Premier League at some point.”

Paul Scholes, Phil Neville, Nicky Butt and Ryan Giggs (LR) have given up their shares

Salford City has been stuck for five seasons from the League Two since climbing four divisions

Beckham went to Instagram to share news about the acquisition and photos of himself with Neville
The club has since been in the same division and, to say the least, it is struggling in a way in which Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs would not imagine when this plan is released in 2012, at a time when Giggs is considering retiring.
It looked rosy for a while, with six millionaires – the Neville Brothers, Scholes, David Beckham and Nicky Butt – and a billionaire, Singaporean Tycoon Peter Lim, the bankroller of the project that continued things.
But the landscape has changed, as Mail Sport revealed in October. The club had searched for new investments and seemed to be desperately needed.
After Lim’s departure in 2024, Beckham and Neville were looking for investment options.
The Wrexham model, introduced when Ryan Reynolds, Rob Mcelhenney and Razzmatazz replaced old-fashioned football knowledge as a route to winning games, uses the star power of those owners and making films to get the money.
Beckham is not a filmmaker and hardly exudes any personality, although he is the one with that kind of draw as long as someone had thought about making his Salford co-ownership in a similar kind of creative property.
Beckham’s 88.4million Instagram followers even put the 54 million of Reynolds in the shade, which is probably the reason why Reynolds wanted him, as a football royalty, in series one of his hit Welcome to Wrexham Docu series.

The United Duo remained teammates until Beckham’s departure to Real Madrid in 2003
Beckham told the athletics: ‘We are all inspired by what Ryan Reynolds did at Wrexham and I am not saying that this is why we do it because it is not.
‘But I have talked about it so often with Ryan and he said that the feeling in the city, the feeling around the club, is so exceptional. That is the kind of things we want to create.
‘Tom Wagner and Tom Brady have done incredible work with Birmingham. A few months ago I went to a game and the atmosphere in the stadium was one of the best I have seen for a long time. That is what we want to create. We want to create that community, add to the community and fan base that we already have – and then pick it up.
“When you see what the Toms are doing, there is investments, there is a plan and it would be the dream to talk about the growth of Salford City.”
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