David Beckham will not be buying American football club LA Galaxy but is expected to consider offers from Major League Soccer sides in the New Year.

Beckham’s advisors have denied there is any chance of the player buying shares in the US team, even though he has a soccer academy in Los Angeles and the team’s billionaire owner, Phillip Anschutz, owns the Millennium Dome, home of Beckham’s London academy.

But Beckham is expected to talk to MLS teams and Premiership sides in January, with his Real contract running out next summer.