David Beckham and Gary Neville have completed a takeover of Salford City.
Neville Clipbed together with other members of the famous class of 92 from Manchester United to buy in the club in 2014 in the club.
Beckham then joined the ownership team in 2019 when he bought a ten percent interest from majority shareholder Peter Lim.
But now Nicky Butt, Ryan Giggs, Phil Neville and Paul Scholes have given up their property.
Lim also left in 2024 and had Beckham and his best man search Neville fresh investments.
And they have found that in the form of Declan Kelly, founder of the American consultancy Consello, and Lord Mervyn Davies, chairman of the Lawn Tennis Association Die, will come together for the Salford board of directors.
The new property group also includes four further business people plus an Indian sports technology company.
According to athletics, they have invested between £ 11 million and £ 15 million to strengthen the infrastructure of Salford and sporting ambitions.
But the consortium is supposed not to take on active daily roles in the club, whereby Beckham and Neville control the operation and hope to appoint a new chief executive.
Butt, Giggs, Scholes and Phil Neville are now expected to remain in other non-interested parties in Moor Lane.
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Salford enjoyed four promotions in five years as soon as the ex-sizing stars initially bought.
The 2024-25 season was their sixth consecutive campaign in League Two.
The ammies ended in eighth and missed a play-off place with only one point.
It is said that the owners of celebrities will focus on two promotions at the championship for the next five years.
Beckham, who is also the owner of MLS -Outfit Inter Miami, said to the athletics: “I will be about every big decision that is made and every minor decision that is made.
“That is what my dedication is for Gary. It is what my commitment to the club is.
“We certainly don't laugh and it is not for the romantic side of things.
“Yes, we care about the club – but we do it to win. We want Salford to be successful and we have had success, but then we want it to go to the next level.
“I always dream big, so I always want us to come to the pinnacle of football and be in the Premier League.
“But there is a lot of hard work and many investments have to be made until that time.
“The championship is a competition in which we want to step, but it is step by step. We want success very quickly, but these things take time.
“There is a reason why we will not go up this year. So what is that reason? How do we solve it? And what should we use 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 also explained why Salford means as much for him personally as where he lived when he moved to Manchester at the age of 15, where he trained in the Klif, where he bought his first house and where he first lived with wife Victoria.
And he revealed that he took motivation from fellow A-Lister-Footbalclube owners Tom Brady in Birmingham and Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mcelhenney in Wrexham, who both enjoyed League One season.
Beckham added: “We are all inspired by what Ryan Reynolds did at Wrexham and I don't say 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 did an incredible work with Birmingham. I went to a game a few months ago 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 lift it up.
“It is not only growth in the field, that is what we give the most about, but we want success. Because if we are successful, we also get the chance to say:” Now we are going to invest, now we are going to get a larger stadium, now we are going to get a larger training facility and then it will continue. ” That is what we strive for.
“We are not going to turn around and say: 'Okay, there is a lot of money, we have no plan, but we have the money and now we are going to get the players'. That is not how we work in business. It must be sustainable.
“It must be a real plan around the club because first of all we want to be taken seriously on the field and then on the business side. We don't want to look stupid or make the mistakes that others have in the past.”