Beckham to US league

[SlavikSvensk]

aka international football's glitziest ghetto.

seriously though, i hope this will help our league grow in popularity, though i can't see this as good for his football career. maybe he just wants to focus on marketing himself as a brand?

[prozac]

I bet the missus wants a job in the states
maybe she can appear talented over there

[Esox Lucius]

maybe he just wants to focus on marketing himself as a brand?

that's it mate, he's all about the glitz & glammer and wants to be big in the states. god help you if his missus tries to revive her singing career over there lol.

[prozac]

£128 million over 5 years
"I dont want people to think im going for one last pay day"

[basslinejunkie]

he seems to think people are as dumb as he is.

[SlavikSvensk]

ha yeah that's it then. the MLS had to restructure it's pay system to allow for beckham to come here. i guess they think it will put them over the top. problem is, he came to a club that's ALREADY popular. LA is the only city to have 2 football clubs, and both are successful. it would have been better for US soccer to send him to new york or something.

but yeah, guess he wants to live the hollywood life. i live 10 min from hollywood...it's actually pretty low key. maybe i'll run into him. i'll tell him he's vastly overrated, aside from in set pieces

[french_og]

They will probably make that money back twice over in the first year with Merchandise sales.

Fair play to him though £128,000,000 over 5 years....

We can safely say though now that it is defo the end of his England career playing in the USA,

[Insomnia]

It's very sad these days when it all comes down to money, it should be about wearing the jersey! He makes me laugh on the news saying i hope people dont think it's about the money, i mean doh!
Plus his Mrs is a half wit an all she cant sing worth a monkey iv'e never liked her the stupid cow!! :grr:

[force]

Greedy, self obsessed cunt.........end of!
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I mean, what the **** does he need the money for?

[Richierush]

i personally dont think its for the money,he is just seein out his football
in a nice hot country,plus posh has got the collar on an draggin him out there

[SlavikSvensk]

the more i think about it, though, the more sense it makes.

a) he's on the downside of his career, so why not go somewhere he can still be the super star...mclaren doens't want him on the national side anyways, so...

b) he's always cared as much (or more) about his brand image than his football playing, and he's now in the perfect place to develop that

c) the weather is always nice in LA, people are nice and it's really low-key. even the paparazzi only hassle celebrities in specific areas...probably much easier for beckham to have a private life here than in europe

d) it's always been pele's dream to put football over the top in the US, and beckham now has the chance to do that as his legacy

e) $250 million is a really, really, really large amount of money. i doubt many people could say no to that, realistically

[Will]

Yeah, I mean that's the kind of money Michael Jordan was on isn't it? Strange to think an English football player could make a similar amount, considering there's only 5 players per team in basketball and the salary cap is under 1m dollars per team in MLS I think... And he's not exactly the best player in the world, though he'll probably be tge highest paid sportsman you would think.

[SlavikSvensk]

Yeah, I mean that's the kind of money Michael Jordan was on isn't it? Strange to think an English football player could make a similar amount, considering there's only 5 players per team in basketball and the salary cap is under 1m dollars per team in MLS I think... And he's not exactly the best player in the world, though he'll probably be tge highest paid sportsman you would think.

i think he's now the highest paid sportsman in the world. not 100% sure, but i think so. jordan never made $50 million a year.

i bet this ends up mostly a bust...at best, football will go from being a sport watched by latinos and europhiles to one also watched by a moderate number of non-latino, non-europhilic americans...like ice hockey.

[Aratron]

i ****ing hate beckham that ponce cost us the last world cup and european cup

[Numeric]

i ****ing hate beckham that ponce cost us the last world cup and european cup

what balderdash you speak...

Becks is a good lad, fair-play to him, i wish him every success...

[Insomnia]

I dont mind him to be honest, it's his wife that does me head in, she think she were a queen!