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Beckham buys 10 per cent stake in Salford City

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He joins former Manchester United teammates Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt as a shareholder.

Former England and Manchester United midfielder David Beckham has bought a stake in Salford City, the National League club have announced.

The 43-year-old has followed in the footsteps of former United team-mates Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville, Phil Neville, Paul Scholes and Nicky Butt and secured a 10 per cent stake in the club.

With the 'Class of 92' major shareholders now at 60 per cent, Peter Lim remains the largest shareholder with the remaining 40.

"It's a proud moment for me to join Peter Lim and the Class of '92 lads as an owner of Salford City FC," Beckham said.

"It's a really special club and a special group of people. My early years in Manchester were all spent in Salford. I grew up there in many ways so to be able to finally join the lads and the club today is a great feeling."

Beckham's involvement in the club comes five years after the Neville brothers, Scholes, Giggs and Butt took ownership at Moor Lane.

Meanwhile Scholes admitted he has a keen interest to be involved in coaching but does not yet know if that would impact his involvement at Salford.

"I've made no secret that, one day, I do want to get back into football in some form of coaching. If that's Oldham, I don't know," the 44-year-old said. "There's nothing to report on that.

"Whether it's in the next year or two years, at some point I do want to get back into football. Whether that will conflict with Salford, I don't know the total implications of that yet.

Paul Scholes has an interest in football coaching (Mark Kerton/PA)

"The media stuff, I've half enjoyed doing it, but it's not the same as being involved with a football club every day.

"When you leave school for 20 years you're trying to achieve something all the time and for this last five or six years, that has gone away.

"I feel if I get back into football then I've got something to achieve again."

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