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Beckham Deal: How much??!?!?!?!

Fez909 said:
Take Freddy Adu - Homegrown American wonderkid. Wants to play abroad, but Man United want him when they got the chance. If they decide not to sign him in the summer, I'm sure he'll be playing for another European team this time next year. It's the best thing for him. And until there's masses of American talent coming through, there's going to be nothing to keep the best players from leaving.
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Homegrown as in "moved to America from Ghana when he was 12". Although he's certainly US-trained and educated, and now has citizenship.

/nitpicking
 
Sport in the US is big money. Even if you're a total drop-out you can earn comfortably more than an average Joe.

It's big business. Sport colleges etc.


I met someone recently who at the age of 21 was hanging on to the hope of a media career in sport in the US. Didn't quite cut it in the physical department and totally blown out. Living on pills for everything. Totally dependent on pills for physical ills and mental ills all because she was pushed to chase the dream a little to hard.

Sadest thing was that she still believes she's going to have a sport career that will pay well somewhere. If her connections are good and she lives for more than another five years. Possibly. Fucking sad.

Dreaming of being Beckham? Billions of young susceptible minds will be.

Sick.
 
brixtonvilla said:
Homegrown as in "moved to America from Ghana when he was 12". Although he's certainly US-trained and educated, and now has citizenship.

/nitpicking
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freddy adu is 4-5 years older than he say's he is, his parents ditched his passport
and lied about his age to get him educated, in american schools...
 
i can't wait to see what affect this has on soccer in the states. it being all but dead here and all.

funny! soccers comeback, having NOTHING to do with soccer. but hey, they're a smokin couple =P
 
goodluck to him ! usa prob see him as some kind of ambassador of soccer
all the top sports earners in the states all come from baseball and basketball
and in those sports they play fifty-odd game's a season so beck's money is even greater, than first appears... 5 year deal as well he wont be playing 30 games a season at 36
 
Snufkin! said:
Did George best and Pele not go to some American teams years ago.
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I'm not sure if Best did. Pele did, as well as Beckenbauer, but that was when they were well past their best and even past their average. Beckham at 31 is at the top of the hill but not over it, so the Yanks can still puff their chests out at this coup for a good while yet!
 
The funny thing is that Beckham is not exactly good box office. Takes the odd good free kick and corner but not your scintillating skills. How long before they realise they've bought London Bridge again?
 
Monkeygrinder's Organ said:
It's a bit sad really. That someone who is already as ludicrously rich as he is has decided to give up on whatever is left of his 'real' football career in favour of even more obscene amounts of cash. Next step on the way things have been going for ages I suppose.
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What's sad about it?

Someone's offered him $250 million for a five year contract, and he took it.

He'd be a fool not to.
 
Victoria gets thinner in inverse proportion to how much he earns. When she was earning £300k a year by herself as a Spicelet, she looked healthy. When he went to Real, she got skeletal, like a Twiglet. Now he is earning this bonkers amount, she'll slide down the plug hole if she has a bath...:eek:

Or die.
 
Fez909 said:
I doubt he'll play for England again, then. No offence Americans, but your league just isn't competitive enough for international players.
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But if they're prepared to pay this kind of money, how long will it be before they become competitive?
 
Badger Kitten said:
Victoria gets thinner in inverse proportion to how much he earns. When she was earning £300k a year by herself as a Spicelet, she looked healthy. When he went to Real, she got skeletal, like a Twiglet. Now he is earning this bonkers amount, she'll slide down the plug hole if she has a bath...:eek:

Or die.
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Cluck, cluck.
 
Here's a crazy thought.

This year Beckham gets the rules changed to allow a big draw in world football be paid big bucks to play for a US team.

Next year another player, maybe a couple of years younger, does the same thing.

They both do well and US football starts getting a bit of attention.

The following year a handfull of big players do the same thing.

The following year, the rules get changed again, you can have two big earners.

Repeat.

Are we not a few years away from the wealthiest nation being able to pay the best players the biggest wages and having the best league?




Just a crazy idea, like...
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
And so begins the slow march to American domination of the game of soccer...
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Not going to happen for a long time. There just isn't the interest in it. Still, they qualify every time, even if they usually disappoint. Quite a few Americans said 2006 could be the year for the US team to do well But they were piss poor.

On a different note, how come Canada has qualified a paltry once in its entire history, considering you have an easy qualifying section? I know its not much of a sport in Canada either, but even so, you ought to have enough to qualify past the pretty tiny central american/caribbean nations you play against.

I've met more canadians who are into soccer than americans, too.
 
Ranu said:
Are we not a few years away from the wealthiest nation being able to pay the best players the biggest wages and having the best league?
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IMO they're just going down the same route they did in the 70's throwing big bucks at big-names who are in the twilight of their careers.

It didn't work then and frankly, I don't see it happening now because football is never going to be able to break the domination of the big 4 sports in America.
 
Pele did, as well as Beckenbauer, but that was when they were well past their best and even past their average
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Pele, Beckenbauer, Moore and Cruyff, all of whom played in the NASL, all had averages that would well beyond Beckham at his one-dimensional best. We're talking about four of the greatest players the game's ever seen, two of whom created positions and formations never seen before. Beckham is merely a clothes horse who plays the occasional game of football in comparison.
 
RenegadeDog said:
Not going to happen for a long time. There just isn't the interest in it. Still, they qualify every time, even if they usually disappoint. Quite a few Americans said 2006 could be the year for the US team to do well But they were piss poor.

On a different note, how come Canada has qualified a paltry once in its entire history, considering you have an easy qualifying section? I know its not much of a sport in Canada either, but even so, you ought to have enough to qualify past the pretty tiny central american/caribbean nations you play against.

I've met more canadians who are into soccer than americans, too.
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I don't know. I think it's because we just don't care much about it. We have or had professional teams, like the Vancouver Whitecaps, but I think they're a women's team now.

Mainly, I think it's because the big promotion goes into the popular, commercial sports. Hockey is number one in canada, followed by football, then baseball, then basketball.

Also, soccer just seems so..............boring.

It's interesting; lots of kids play soccer in organized leagues here when they're young, but the interest just drops off. Perhaps it's because there aren't the same sort of university scholarships offered as there are with hockey, etc.
 
And I was shocked when Figo wanted to piss off to to Saudi Arabia for £650k a month for half a season.

Regardless of the money surrounding american sport, I don't see how could they support more than 4 or 5 players in the whole league with those salaries. Besides, Beckham stopped being a football player long ago to pursue a carreer in being a "face", and I bet he'd move to the US even for numbers closer to his expiring Real Madrid contract. This whole deal reeks of publicity stunt, anyway.
 
potential said:
goodluck to him ! usa prob see him as some kind of ambassador of soccer
all the top sports earners in the states all come from baseball and basketball
and in those sports they play fifty-odd game's a season so beck's money is even greater, than first appears... 5 year deal as well he wont be playing 30 games a season at 36
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Beckham and Brad Freidl have both established 'soccer' academies in the USA, in an attempt to make football more popular there. Freidl was talking about his today on SS News. Beckham started his in Nov 2005, so I guess he was interested in spreading the game to the USA before this deal came up.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4470132.stm

I don't think he would have moved to the US if McClaren hadn't told him that 'the door was closed' to him ever playing for England again.
 
ZAMB said:
Beckham and Brad Freidl have both established 'soccer' academies in the USA, in an attempt to make football more popular there. Freidl was talking about his today on SS News. Beckham started his in Nov 2005, so I guess he was interested in spreading the game to the USA before this deal came up.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4470132.stm

I don't think he would have moved to the US if McClaren hadn't told him that 'the door was closed' to him ever playing for England again.
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beckham probably had his carear planned out years ago, probbably didnt think he was going to go to america this soon but $1 000 000 per week !!!
his sponsors werent gonna advise him to go to bolton, middlesboro are they
im glad beck's has gone to the USA rather than fat-boy ronaldo or roberto carlos...
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
Also, soccer just seems so..............boring.
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Typical comment out of the mouth of someone who clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.

No offence Johnny :p
 
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