David Beckham join L.A Galaxy

He will stay at Real Madrid until the end of the current Spanish season

There must be some lucrative commerical activities going on for Becks in America. How long till he is in his first film

He his becomming the highest sports star £128 million over 5 years

Sad to see a footballer be so greedy for money. Sky sports said he's gettin almost 500000 pounds a week. Ludicrous

if they are willing to pay it i dont see its greedy

to be honest he should have come back to the premiership and played well for 2 more years, before sailing off to the usa to help try and get football bigger over there

hes cut his top class career short with this. sad. but i guess he thinks hes doing something good over there, and to be fair i think he will

I think it is a good move for him. Obviously the money speaks for itself, but I think he wants to go there to leave a legacy in the US for footballing reasons. He has spoken about his desire to expand his football academies worldwide, can you imagine the uptake by kids to these academies based on the attention Beckham will receive playing in the MLS?

Soccer is obviously behind the major sports there (NFL, NBA etc.) but in high schools it is the most popular sport. It is when the kids go to college and all they have are the NCAA Football and Basketball leagues etc. So if there is an outlet for the colleges to develop the talent, imagine how big a force the US could be in international terms.

I personally hope Beckham does really well. Yes he gets a lot of attention, and a lot of it is brought on to himself (and by his wife), but he comes across as a real genuine down to aarth nice guy.

He will always be one of my favourite players who ever played for Man Utd.

yeah hes a nice bloke, but this move is too early. hes still a top top player and it seems sad to move over there at this moment. im all for him going over at some point, but it should be in a year or two

also im not too keen on the usa getting any better at football! haha. they already dominate so many sports im quite happy they are far from the best at my favourite sport

Going over to America didn't work for anyone, just look at george best.

But to be fair to him. I would do the same. Real Madrid act like Beckham has done something wrong. He is a player who can win a game for you with his set pieces. He should still be in the England Team if you ask me.

Posh abd Becks have always wanted to crack America, here is their chance. At least they have their heads screwed on. Football is a business these days. Yes you have to have the desire to win, and play well, but it is a short career, and everyone has to look after number 1.

Capello's now saying that Beckham won't play again for Real Madrid this season. That's a bit nasty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TKKtErL-Zo

yep. while i may not agree with beckham going to america while he is still a very good player, i cannot believe how badly real and capello have treated him. disgraceful. really is

You can kind of understand why he won't play him. If his heart isn't in it, he won't play well. And I can't see his heart being in it to play for Real, especially after how they have treated him.

He's a top professional tho, plus I'd fully expect Becks to want to show everyone he still has it. Especially in the last part of his Real career. This shows 1 of the reasons he left then, Capello obviously doesn't like him, in the same vein as Fergie towards the end of his Man U career I bet!!

Good luck to him, we would all take the same deal

I'll disagree with some people here.
I don't think that Beckham's transfer to the MLS will bring the football (soccer)in the US close to the same level as the NFL or NASCAR . In the country there people are so stuck on their damn games (american football, basketball)and there you are lucky to see football (soccer) once a month on 60 TV channels, moving of Beckham to MLS won't change much. There was a Christo Stoechkov before.
I just wondering, who Beckham will play here (in MLS) with? There are may be only handful of players of the same level playing in MLS.
However,if he moves here for the money only....I can undersand that. There is plenty of commercial market here for him to make money on commercials of Gillette, Kodak, etc.

P.S.: It's just my opinion

Is true that Cappello is not a good coach (see the recent scandal (Juve, Milan, Fiorentina) and the quarrel with Alex del Piero), but David is no more the player he used to be.
Now he is more careful with his image and he neglects the game. There are in the world many many players better than him at football but at selling one's image he rulzzzz.

Quite frankly I dont't know which one of the biggest european football clubs would have brought him. Maybe just M.U. Now he is just an expired player that had talent but unfortunatly he didn't managed to take advantage of.

i think all the crap that goes along with beckham is whats brought him down

i think its wrong to think he doesnt work as hard as he should. if anything he works as hard as anyone, but with limited talent. worlds best crosser of a ball. great free kick expert, but isnt blessed with skill in every area

he simply gets assumed to have other intrests get in the way of his career, just because he's so desired by others for off field stuff. doesnt mean he lets it get in his way and i dont think it does. just everyone thinks it does so any bad form will be blamed on that

guess thats the downs that go along with the ups of being the worlds best paid footballer without being the worlds best footballer - ever.

He could of been great, legend but sadly he wont be remembered for his footballing abilites..........

Hes def past it and its a shame really.........

The whole Beckham situation reminds me of Robbie Fowler. Fowler pretty much loved Liverpool and could never play for another club The only reason he left was because of that asshole Houllier Unfortunately his form dropped as well. People talk about the impact Rooney had but Fowlers was much bigger. He was a natural finisher which Rooney isnt

Beckham's situation is basically the same, he was forced to leave coz of a fallout with Fergie. He loves Utd dearly and since he left he hasnt been the same player David Beckham in his prime was simply outstanding, ive never seen anybody cross a ball like he does. Pinpoint accuracy, definitely the greatest crosser in the history of the game Cole & York werent that good but Beckham made them that good coz of his crosses. He has lost pace now but his ability to cross is still there. I would actually love to see him play right back now

No one messes with King Fegie!!

i would join la galaxy for that sort of money and to be honest who wouldnt ???

Beckham is more of a publicity tool now then a football player.

Anything that we can get here in the US to give football more publicity would be great. The youth here, and all of us ethnic types , are really playing a lot of football and going to whatever games we can find. Real Salt Lake, the new Utah MLS team, has been fighting for a stadium since they started. The County and State legislatures have blocked evey attempt to build something for them, yet if the basketball/baseball/hockey mogul wants to crap in a box and sell it to them for a million dollars, they'll swarm all over it.

He came to Utah when Real Madrid played against Real Salt Lake, nice game I might add, and they packed the University field to the rafters. Who did everyone want to see? Beckham, of course (I wanted to see Ruud myself )

He left the game at the highest level 'cause he can make more money selling his image, we cant blame him for that... he was bearing a lot of criticism from the media and worldwide fans... its also a neat move to promote his academies...

la galaxy sounds like a team from somemade up animation series

nice to see beckham got back in the real team and played brilliantly, forcing the manager to change his stance on him for the rest of the season

looks like he can go out in style now

give it year or two in LA and he'll be starring in a Hollywood Blockbuster. I think its all victoria's doing.

yea i think that ur super right, he dont really care about the ball anymore.. Its either acting or politics

nah i wouldn't go as far as saying that he doesn't love football anymore. to be honest, he was chewed up and spat out by real madrid.

but hehe, i saw a documentary about him recently, he's been getting involved in Disney quite a bit. to be honest, i think he definitely
will become some sort of an actor.

i dont think he would be all that at acting personally

lol of course he'll be w**k, he has a cameo in a really lame film called 'goal'

it was the funniest piece of acting ive seen in a while

Maybe not now, bad injury it seems, bit of a shame I reckon!

ahah yeh, He was that bad, he can even act as playing himself! oh