Former Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster has completed a move to National League club Wrexham until the end of the season.
Foster spent five years at United after being signed by Sir Alex Ferguson in 2005. Although he would only make 12 appearances for the Reds, the now 39-year-old would go on to have a very successful career in the Premier League with Watford and West Bromwich Albion.
The 'keeper's deal at the Hornets expired at the end of the 2021/22 campaign and, after much deliberation, Foster announced that he would be retiring. However, on Thursday Wrexham revealed that the shot-stopper was coming out of retirement for the remainder of the season.
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Speaking to the club's official website, Foster credited Wrexham for helping him move to Old Trafford. He said: "I’m over the moon. I’ve been at the club an hour this morning and it seems a really nice place.
"Everyone is down to earth and the manager’s top class. It’s changed a lot since I was last here, but it’s nice to be back and it’s nice to be back as a player too.
"It will be interesting to see how my body feels after training today. I’m looking forward to getting started.
"The first time I was here, it was genuinely the springboard to the rest of my career – on the back of the loan move, playing in the LDV Vans Trophy Final at the Millennium Stadium, I got my move to Manchester United at the start of the next season. It was absolutely bonkers.
"If you’d told me 18 years ago that I’d have gone on to have the career that I have had, I probably wouldn’t have believed you to be honest so I do owe a lot to Wrexham." The National League side revealed this week that their first-choice 'keeper Rob Lainton would miss six weeks of action due to injury.
Last week, Foster revealed that he turned down a move to Wrexham earlier in the season but did confess that it would have been fun to return. He told Live Score: "Wrexham were one of the clubs I got an offer from earlier in the season. I had a few offers.
"It would have been cool. I'm over the moon for them.
"It's good to see. The thing with Wrexham is it's such a football community and the people really care about that club."
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