Gary Neville forced to close Leeds restaurant with Masterchef star amid £1m debts

Former Manchester United prima Gary Neville has grown a ample concern portfolio alongside his footballing ventures but has been forced to adjacent a Leeds restaurant

Gary Neville has been forced to adjacent his glitzy Leeds edifice amid rising debts.

The erstwhile Manchester United prima has embarked connected a fig of business ventures since hanging up his boots. One of those includes Leeds nutrient spot The Man Behind the Curtain.

The edifice was acceptable up successful 2014 and had been awarded a Michelin prima having been tally by cook Michael O’Hare - who had besides appeared connected Masterchef. Neville owned 50 percent of the concern via Relentless Leisure.

But it has present been forced to adjacent amid immense debts. According to a Statement of Affairs filed astatine Companies House, the concern owed £366,848.

£9,500 successful estimated assets woes owed to creditors, portion a director’s indebtedness owed astatine £500,000 was described arsenic ‘uncertain’ for payback, with fixtures and fittings – worthy astir £152,973 was besides valued arsenic ‘uncertain’.

Meanwhile, banks are owed £14,000, with HMRC’s indebtedness detailing 2 outstanding bills worthy £119,090 and £400,194. The accounts for 2023 of Neville’s edifice task are overdue, but the 2022 variation reported a £187,000 nett and reserves astatine £105,938.

Despite the liquidation, the edifice is inactive moving nether a antithetic guise. A station from Neville connected LinkedIn earlier this twelvemonth read: “A fewer years agone I signed 1 of the astir instinctive and unthinkable deals that I've ever done erstwhile I went into concern with Michael O'Hare connected 'The Man Behind The Curtain' edifice successful Leeds.

"At the extremity of a repast I had astatine the restaurant, Michael presented maine with the bill, but it wasn’t a mean bill, it was a measure that had a fig connected it accompanied with a enactment that said this volition springiness you 50% of the restaurant. From that infinitesimal connected I was the co-owner of a Michelin prima edifice successful Leeds!

"Fast guardant to contiguous and it's taken a brave and courageous determination for Michael to springiness up his Michelin prima and unfastened a caller restaurant, Psycho Sandbar, that I went to earlier connected successful the week.

"It's a sensational edifice with an unbelievable acquisition and a superb occupation from Michael and his team. If you ever get the accidental to visit, I highly urge it.”

The closure of the edifice is Neville’s latest blow. The institution down Cafe Football - a task betwixt the erstwhile defender and ex-teammate Ryan Giggs - was formally dissolved past year. His Hotel Football task besides mislaid different £600,000 successful the astir caller fiscal twelvemonth contempt a grounds turnover.

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