David Beckham!
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Uncle Liam wrote: over 5 years.
492k per week!
ridiculous.
I'd give it a couple of months, then buy a couple of properties and retire. 
Missy Jem wrote: 5 years!
I bet Vicky will be starting a new career as a an actress.
wonder if she'll ever act with Cruise, making a bomb pracital.
Missy Jem wrote: 5 years!
I bet Vicky will be starting a new career as a an actress.
the porn industry is HUGE in the LA area...
dear God NOOOOOO!!!!!
Chrissy says, 'RELAX'! wrote: Jesus Christ!
No, Chrissy, David Beckham (although Beckham was briefly mistaken as the saviour by certain demographics at intermittent junctures between 1996-2002).
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:
Missy Jem wrote: 5 years!
I bet Vicky will be starting a new career as a an actress.
the porn industry is HUGE in the LA area...
dear God NOOOOOO!!!!!
Good point!!
FRANK[gold]ITO wrote: I read it was 250 Million for 5 years!
129,000,000.00 GBP United Kingdom Pounds
=
250,791,571.65 USD United States Dollars
I think this move just about sums Beckham up. Signing for an MLS side while he's still relatively young in footballing terms says it all about his total lack of ambition in the game. He's interested in pursuing Beckham the brand and fuck all else. And to think you English mugs hailed him as the Messiah for so many years 
Contrast him with someone like Henrik Larsson who at 35 is still pushing himself and taking on challenges that many with a bigger ego would shy away from.
Beckham....WHAT A TWAT 
The media may have hailed him the Messiah Glas. I don't know anyone who said he was that great a player. A good player only,with a class free kick,but never in Stuart Ripley's class as a right sided midfielder.
You can imagine how he looks to a non football type like me. I hear about him oever and over again, how he is the greatest thing since a considerable time before sliced bread.
Then I turn the W/C ( or euro somethong or other ) on and witness a big. limp twat.
Uncle Liam wrote: over 5 years.
492k per week!
ridiculous.
£0.81 per minute
Yes fucking please.Only doing it to improve the profile of football in the U.S. Nothing to do with money!!!!
isaac wrote:
Uncle Liam wrote: over 5 years.
492k per week!
ridiculous.
£0.81 per minute
Per second surely
472k/7/24/60=46 quid some-odds a minute.
And I though Schumacher was overpaid, at least he COULD have got hurt.
well there goes my dads dream of him signing for preston north end.
aye pops theyll get him a house on the larches.
On the radio (it was the news of the day in sports radios), they said 10M$ a year, so 5M pounds.
for 5 years. The rest is what the team is paying Madrid I suppose.
But he has 100% of his branding rights... while he had 50% with the Real.
Anyways, don't be that fast to judge it, the MLS is trying to make a stand they are serious... I don't know if that's suitable just yet though, to be honest, that's more than any players of the NHL, but half of some of the MLB players...
So it's middle ground.
Soccer is getting more popular in the US, and they are trying something... will it work, no idea yet... but it can only be good for worldwide soccer fans.
Maybe Mr Beckham will enjoy being able to walk in the streets without being recognized ;) I mean, sure there are lot of paparazzis in LA, but they are all over Paris Hilton :p
mike powell wrote: well there goes my dads dream of him signing for preston north end. aye pops theyll get him a house on the larches.
He's already played for PNE.
lovely, the news makes even the local TV broadcast as well, and I just heard it on the national ABC telecast (they told their viewers to head to their website to see what makes Beckham so "special")
Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: so can we get Henrik Larsson over as well???
King Henrik has too much ambition and self respect to jump on the MLS gravy train. Plus there's a certain team down Manc way who now seem to be trying to secure his services til beyond his 36th birthday. Beckham aint even a tenth of the pro that Larsson is.
To think Beckham will get more wages in one week than George Best earned from his entire career in the game..
I would'nt be too surprised if a few heads were turned in the Premiership now the salary cap in the US is lifted and you get some of the better players in their prime going over to the U.S. for the dosh now..Beckham's astronomical wages appeal,may open the floodgates for others that want to make a difference to the kids over there 
Wayne Rooney has already been over here, starring in Shrek and all...
But seriously, do you think the MLS owners will go around throwing their cash at the rest of Europe's footballers? Who else has Becks name recognition? Erm...that's right, over here...NOBODY...it's a gimmick signing...meant to sell more merchandise, and stick a few more asses in seats...well...maybe a lot more...but still...
MLS is still a Mickey Mouse league...the Galaxy are the ONLY team in MLS to EVER turn a profit, and I'm thinking that just got flushed down the shitter...This league has looked for somebody to be the poster boy, Freddy Adu was gonna be the golden child when he entered the league at some age between 14 and 41 (depends on which of his birth certificates you look at)...now it's going to be Becks...I've read that this will make the rest of the world take notice of MLS, but I ain't so sure that's the case...he isn't capped for England any longer...he wasn't regularly featured for Real Madrid...so why would anyone really give a shit if he's going to come play in LA???
It's not gonna make me start watching any more MLS mathces...because even with Becks, it's still a rubbish league...
