Will He Stay or Will He Go
With 3 weeks left to the final scamble of the open transfer window, will David Beckham stay with Real Madrid or will he make his way back to England and play once again in the EPL?The tougher question is if he were to come back to the EPL who would want him?
He certainly couldn't play at Chelsea and Man United wouldn't take him back as long as Sir Alex Red Nose is there. I would think that Posh would want to be close to London and their mansion they own there. So you have Charlton, Spurs, Arsenal, Fulham, Watford and West Ham. I would guess that he would probably go to West Ham if anywhere. If Arsenal get Ribery, they certainly wouldn't want a 31 year old midfielder to come play with the youngsters. I wouldn't mind seeing him in an Arsenal uniform, more for the revenues that would be generated on kit sales than anything. Arsenal shirts would be seen all over Japan & China for sure.
3 week, no contract from Real yet. We will see.
Now the latest is that Posh has been seen in LA house hunting and that the MLS is trying to negotiate with Becks to come and play for the Los Angeles Galaxy. Right now the highest they pay for a player in Landon Donovan and I think it's like around $1 million. How are they going to come up with the money to pay a guy who's currently making around $10 million a year plus another $40 million in endorsements. Will people continue to sponsor him?
I just don't see the LA thing happening, but if it does it will bring more money to the MLS in ticket sales and shirt sales.
posted by Unknown at 6:12 PM
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Ahh...but take a look.
http://www.wldcup.com/news/2007/01/20070111_40378_soccer_news.html
Looks like he's headed to LA. I bet instead of straight salary they're doing the Tom Cruise thing and offering him a share of revenue. (Do you really think Ribery is Arsenal-bound? Awesome.)
I don't know if Ribery will come to Arsenal but there's been a lot of talk that we will sell Freddie Ljungberg and raise the $15 million to buy him. So we will ee.
Becks may come to LA but it really would have to be some sort of Revenue sharing with LA or the League. He makes way too much money and could make 10x what LA would pay him in Dubai or Japan.
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