Be Prepared - the Beckham's are heading your way!!!

[Kelda]

How long will it take David Beckham in his new job to surpass the salary of one of his LA team mates?

Two hours?

11 hours?

One day?
 


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It's two hours, according to the Washington Post which compares Beckham's $50m-a-year package to the $11,700 earned by the Galaxy's worst-paid player.

[delalluvia]

When I say 'your' - i mean for the Americans of the pack...

Sexy Footballer Player and HUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGEEEEE celeb David Beckham is joining the LA Galaxy Football (Soccer) Team in a deal worth $US275million over 5 years!



He is intending to make you Yanks enjoy watching adult soccer as much as you do baseball or american football.... (I understand its a very popular kids sport at the moment with you guys - and sunday league for adults?)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6253829.stm

This means Posh Spice Victoria is also coming your way and no doubt she will be seen out in town with her new bestfriend Katie Holmes a lot!!

This is HUGE news in the UK at the moment.

Yeah, I heard about this last night. 

He's going to be in California, and Posh will probably never leave Beverly Hills, so for all the news in the UK, it's a shrug here.  Few people outside of those who keep up with such things, know who he is.

Especially in my neck of the woods where American football is king and you don't even want to know what they think of soccer/football and those who play it.

Now his salary is nothing to sneeze at, but I bet a lot of his teammates will be wondering if he's really going to earn it, or if they just paid for his name. 

[Kelda]

well apparently that figure  is made up with his wages but existing sponsorship contracts, merchandising shirt sales and a share of the club profits as well as payment for use of his images.

His £5million-a-year WAGES will be paid by a combination of the MLS league, the club, its parent company AEG and sports giant adidas — which is now likely to sponsor the team’s shirts.

He can expect another £2.6million from SALES of replica shirts.

A host of SPONSORSHIP deals with the likes of Pepsi will earn him £13million a year.

And a revolutionary “stakeholder” share of the Galaxy club’s profits is set to bring in a further £5million each year — and potentially far more.

He will effectively be a shareholder in both LA Galaxy and the MLS itself and will get BONUSES if he gets more kids playing the game and more fans at matches.

A source confirmed: “The figure isn’t based on salary alone. There are sponsorship and merchandising deals and performance related payments. For example, if David brings in new TV money he’ll get a cut.

“He will be marketed in the States like no other sportsman in history.

[Jeff Wrangler]

David Beckham. The man for whom the term metrosexual was coined. (Didn't I read somewhere once that he admitted to wearing Victoria's underwear?) 

Heard on this morning's news that he's now 31 years old--and he's just getting better looking as he gets older. 

But I wish he'd take some of that LA money and hire himself an Oxbridge elocution teacher. As Professor Henry Higgins so memorably asks, "Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?"   

(Of course, one could always tell him, "Don't talk. It's better that way. ...")

[Kelda]

I think she joked about him wearing her thongs (the underwear not the shoes for you Ozzies!) it on an episode of Parkinson - but it wasn't actually true (apparently!) 

But he did wear a sarong once! (late 1990's)



ah and here are those white speedos! (Picture from this summer)

[southendmd]

Here's an oldie:  I guess he'll have enough money for all that peroxide.

[Lumière]

I know that he is ridiculously overpaid .. but
I am a fan ..

Some Becks for y'all ..

 

[Lumière]

A few more .. 

[Eire1978]

Beckham is one of the most overrated football players ever... And his wife should eat more, she's just awful...

[Penthesilea]

ah and here are those white speedos! (Picture from this summer)

lol, he looks like Mr Krabs in this pic.