Thursday, October 26, 2006

Beckham can go for £5m

Real Madrid are prepared to take a £20m loss on the player when the transfer window opens rather than lose him for nothing next summer.

Comments:
The merchandising deal Real Madrid struck when they signed David Beckham means that he has paid for his £25m transfer fee several times over, so giving him away for free would not mean a loss in real terms.

However, I suspect all this talk is just another back and forth in the negotiations over his contract. If what he wants is to win titles, there’s only a handful of teams in Europe that can fulfil that ambition. He clearly does not ‘travel well’ and I don’t see him uprooting his family and moving to a non-English-speaking country, so the only option is to move back to the Premiership to Man U, Arsenal or Chelsea, or to go to the MLS and make another pile of money there, trading on his image before it declines completely.

Would Man U, Arsenal or Chelsea find a place in their starting line-up for David Beckham? I suspect not. I expect him to sign for another year or two, and then move to the U.S.

We’ll know more in 3 months or so…
 
Yes, he sold a lot of shirts, but is that really the legacy he wants to leave at Real ?

I see him going back to the Premiership for a couple of years, and then going to MLS.
 
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