Gary Neville has opened the plans that he and David Beckham have for Salford City after completing their takeover of the club.
Beckham and Neville led a new consortium that was in control of the League two-outfit earlier this month and bought their former class of 92 teammates Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs and Phil Neville, after large Backer Peter Lim was removed from his ownership position last year.
The class of 92s arrival in 2014 had previously brought Salford from the Northern Premier League Division One to the north of the EFL in five years, but since then they have stayed in League Two – and finished eighth this season.
Beckham and Neville will be accompanied by Declan Kelly, founder of the American consultancy Consello, and Lord Mervyn Davies, chairman of the Lawn Tennis Association. The new group focuses on championship football within five years.
They have already made a splash, with Salford, who are managed by Karl Robinson, who release 17 players in a brutal re-perche after missing the play-offs.
And, talking about the overlapping debate of the fan that you were offered by Sky Bet, Neville gave further insight into the plans he and Beckham have for the club.
'Shares in a football club for most owners, except the passion and the feelings you get from it, you are more than an active reliability from an investment perspective, Neville said.
'We put money in Salford and in January we just thought we should get a group of people that we could trust.
'Me and Becks [David Beckham] It agreed that we would use money for the next four or five years, which is an obligation that we have all done.
'Salford City will not change the budget – you need two or three years from the model that we have already returned.
“You can't invest from becoming sustainable from becoming sustainable so quickly – you have to look at player contracts for three years and you generally have a model that you have built that you can't come from.”
A High Profile ownership group is not new, with other examples such as Wrexham and Birmingham prominent in the EFL in recent times.
Wrexham has three consecutive promotions from the National League to the championship among famous rear channels Rob Mcelhenney and Ryan Reynolds, while the blues – where NFL icon Tom Brady is a minority owner – raised to the competition title this season and have ambitious plans for the future.
Neville, however, claimed that his group would be different and it also stated that supporting the local community would be an important part of their goals.
The Legend of Manchester United added: 'We have to change the model of the club somewhat, in fact quite a bit. It is very different from Wrexham and Birmingham [City] – You are talking about millions that go into those clubs.
“That's not what we want to do with Salford. We want Salford to be a good football project.
'Salford City has the cheapest ticket prices in the EFL. On the first day I dedicated to the fans that we would be the most affordable and accessible football club. I'd rather go down than that [be unsustainable]. '
In the meantime, Neville has recently occasionally criticized the lack of progress in Salford, with the Ammies getting stuck in competition in the past six years.
During that time, Salford has only qualified one opportunity for the play-offs and they never ended higher than seventh, but Neville defended his record.
'The money we have spent on our football club [Salford City] We could easily have buy a League One -Club, “Neville explained. 'The reason we didn't do that is that we wanted to build a football club all the way again. They had 100 fans at the time.
'We respect every fan who comes to Salford enormously, but because of the things we have done in the last ten years, they are there, which is a great position for us as owners to be in.
'We cannot be accused of missing mind, fighting or stopping money where our mouth is.
“We can never be accused of it at Salford because we don't have 10,000 fans who have long been there who have an opinion based on history.”
Gary Neville spoke about the debate about the overlapping fan, offered by Sky Bet.