Why would you invest in shares???

[The Mint Man]

When you can just earn over a mil a week doing what you love!!!!

David Beckham said Friday that he is coming to the United States to play soccer and nothing more.

Along the way, he said, he will do everything he can to encourage more American youngsters take up the sport, but he is not headed to Los Angeles for a new career in stage, screen, television, fashion-modeling, music or anything else.

He may be a celebrity, but he is still, first and foremost, a soccer player.

One day after his five-year, $250-million deal to join Major League Soccer's L.A. Galaxy was announced, Beckham talked to reporters and some of his future teammates on a teleconference call beamed live from Madrid to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Marina del Rey.

Looking less than relaxed and even a bit self-conscious in a stiff-collared white shirt, dark jacket and tie, Beckham sounded genuinely enthusiastic about joining MLS. "It was a difficult decision but not a hard one to make," the former Manchester United standout said of his pending move from nine-time European champion Real Madrid to the one-time CONCACAF champion Galaxy.

"I've played in top-class football now for 15 years for two of the biggest clubs in the world . . . so stepping away from that was always going to be difficult," he said. "But the decision to join the Galaxy wasn't hard because I've been to L.A. and . . . I think there's a huge opportunity out there. With me, it's about football; that's what I'm all about. I'm coming there to make a difference. I'm coming there to play football."

He said that "soccer is growing in the States . . . and that's one of the reasons why I'm wanting to take this challenge up, because I'd like to take it to another level. I'm a player who works hard on the pitch, I'm a team player. People talk about being a superstar, but I love being part of a team that wants to win and wants to play football.

"That's what I'm looking forward to.

"I'm not saying me coming over to the U.S. is going to make soccer the biggest sport in America, because that's going to be very difficult to achieve. I'd love say that would happen, but I think there are so many other major great sports in the U.S. like baseball, like basketball, like American football."

Beckham's contract with Real Madrid runs through June 30, after which he will take some time off before joining the Galaxy in later July or early August.

 

[bvbfan]

A good talent wasted, shows what a bad wife will do.

Funny watching CNBC saying he hasn't scored many goals, what do you expect from a midfielder.

 

[Realist]

Ridiculous.

 

[Buster]

Two Hundred and Fifty Million... to kick a ball???

Honestly.. Our cricket players are probably the 'lowest earners' of the professional sportsmen, and I'm still disgusted at their remuneration.. That our priorities are so far skewed that we reward 'game players' in this way astounds me.. How we allow this to occur while our Police/Nurses/Educators (not the mugs insisting on the extra 'pupil free' days that only work half each day for half the year and still gripe about it, but the real smart bastards/professors etc..) and (dare I say it) Defence get paid pittance is beyond me..

My two cents worth anyway..


Cheers,

Buster.

 

[wayneL]

We live in a celebrity worshipping, gossip magazine culture.

We vote for this with our dollars when we buy the stupid tabloids and magazines, when we pay ludicrous amounts to watch a few neanderthals kick a leather ball around, and when we obsess about the stinking (insert favourite sportstar/team here)

Par for the course I'm afraid.

 

[ice]

What's the problem it's just capitalism in action.

The people paying him expect to turn a $ out of it. They may be right they may be wrong, but the fact it's being talked about around the world suggests they're on the right track.

Anyway it's probably about the equivalent cost of a couple of hours worth of America's adventure in Iraq. I know which one I consider the more worthwhile investment.


ice

 

[silence]

Wow. That's like half of Tasmania's GDP o_0

Seriously though, my town's GDP many times over.

 

[The Mint Man]

well in yesterdays paper it said more like $350M so maybe 250 was just to start off with!

 

[niknah]

It's a $10mill per year salary, the rest of it is other stuff he gets for being famous, etc....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beckham_Los_Angeles_Galaxy_contract

Most of these guys earn peanuts, there's only a small percent making alot.
Some of you guys maybe helping get more by buying these brands he endorses.

 

[nomore4s]

Why would you invest in shares:

When you can just earn over a mil a week doing what you love!!!!

Because I can't play soccer.

 

[insider]

Beckham is trying to be Pele... Good on him

 

[imajica]

have u heard Beckham speak - its funny how he tortures the English language - as for his wife - lets just say you can tell she came from nothing - tacky as s**t

 

[thidoan]

have u heard Beckham speak - its funny how he tortures the English language - as for his wife - lets just say you can tell she came from nothing - tacky as s**t

HAHA agreed

 

[CanOz]

I can't stand the sport, or Beckham for that matter....but good on him i say, get whatever you can get. I just hope they give some away.

Cheers,

 

[larry123]

Nobodys worth that much. He should give it away to something that really matters.

 

[UMike]

Two Hundred and Fifty Million... to kick a ball???

Honestly.. Our cricket players are probably the 'lowest earners' of the professional sportsmen, and I'm still disgusted at their remuneration.. That our priorities are so far skewed that we reward 'game players' in this way astounds me.. How we allow this to occur while our Police/Nurses/Educators (not the mugs insisting on the extra 'pupil free' days that only work half each day for half the year and still gripe about it, but the real smart bastards/professors etc..) and (dare I say it) Defence get paid pittance is beyond me..

My two cents worth anyway..


Cheers,

Buster.

Rugby League Players get less imo.

 

[The Red Baron]

Yeh the average paid Rubgy and AFL players is pretty poor compared to the likes of Soccer, Tennis and Golf.

I work with a few ex footy players and their in a pretty bad way. Few knee recons, stuffed ACL joints and rotator cuffs, broken fingers, dodgy hamstrings.

Still I guess if you getting paid what Judd does and get Rebecca Twingley your doing alright.