Monday, March 9, 2009

Comment: With David Beckham, it's always been about the money


David Beckham was preaching this week that his move to A.C. Milan was about "football", not about money. Yes, David, that's because you have more money than most people can dream of. With an estimated fortune of over 125 million pounds, and L.A. Galaxy demanding 10 million pounds for the transfer, the fact that it's taken you this long to seal the move (on the penultimate day of the transfer deadline) is very suspect, considering you say that football is your motive and not money.

If that were the case David, this transfer could have been completed in a matter of hours. As it is, the transfer itself has not been entirley completed; you're only staying in Milan till the end of the season on loan and are due to re-join L.A. Galaxy in July of this year. To coin a phrase, I think you're "bending the truth like Beckham".

Furthermore, you never would have moved to L.A. Galaxy in the first place [had your motives been football, not money]. You easily could have forfeited that multi-million dollar contract and joined a host of top European clubs eager to sign you, not so much for your footballing ability(s), but for your commercial and marketing power/revenue. You joined L.A. Galaxy for two reasons :

(1) Finances

(2) An escape from English and European football - you had recently been axed from the England squad, remember?


Nobody doubts your commitment to playing football for club or country, David, but people are highly skeptical of the motives when you claim immunity from financial greed and fail to cough up a meager drop in the water to seal your so-called "dream move".

No, the truth, David, is that you're a money-grabbing attention seeker. Disguising that as your real motive is only a lie to yourself, and to your numerous drones of fans who follow you like blind, helpless sheep.

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