the reported 5 year $250 million deal is very stupid. I realize he is a world super-star but his skills have diminished so much that he is no longer even on his national team. They better have an out-clause

its beyond stupid. its going to kill the league.

What is the collective gross profit of MLS? $50MM a year? Doubtful...

If it brings recognition and legitimacy to MLS, I'm all for it. Otherwise, it's dumb just like you said.

Nike does not pay Tiger Woods $50 million a year, no matter how you cut it, STUPID DEAL

First of all, there's a soccer forum. Secondly, the 250M ( $50M /year )is not all salary. His salary at Galaxy is gonna be around $10M/year, a lot, but not crazy. The rest of his income is gonna be from profit sharing with the Galaxy (~ $10M/year), a cut of merchandizing revenue (~ $10M/year) and the obvious big sponsorship deals (~ $20M/year).

Personally, I think this is a great deal for LA, coz besides the $10M/year, more money for Beckham means that the club is generating more money for itself.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/6253829.stm

EDIT: Added link.



[This message has been edited by nowitchoke (edited 1/12/2007 7:48a).]

MLS is only on the hook for 400k per year.

LA Galaxy for about $9 million per year.

The Galaxy will make almost all of their commitment to Beckham back just by selling their jersey sponsorship in a few days.

Basketball Fan

1. Nowitchee There is a A&M Soccer Forum. I don't think Beckham signed with A&M, but since you think I should post over there I guess he did.

2. The Beckham jersey rights I thought were already part of the Deal so LA cannot sell the rights.

FYI, as per TexAgs:

A&M Soccer
Aggies, MLS, and everything Futbol

WOW!

Now we even argue about something like this!

I love my family...

Whatever...
like mentioned before, $50 million IS NOT his salary.
Tiger Woods made $97 million in 2005, and $10 million was his salary!!
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/specials/fortunate50/index.html?cnn=yes

Adidas is paying a bunch of his salary.

It's a good deal. It'll bring publicity to the league.

devastor

Do you know what a salary is? A sports team does not have to pay it.

hopefully we can pull some other stars that will be willing to follow in beckham's footsteps and see that we will vastly overpay them to come play for us. If this happens i think it will be a great deal. Getting some european coaches over here would make ten times more of a difference though.

For the money to be worthwhile he needs to make soccer more popular in the US than the NBA, MLB and the NFL

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2. The Beckham jersey rights I thought were already part of the Deal so LA cannot sell the rights.

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LA will sell the front of their jersey for millions of dollars per season because of Beckham. MLS is going the way of soccer teams worldwide by allowing the front of the jersey to have a single ad sponsor. Some company is going to pay the Galaxy a lot of money because their logo will be on every jersey and replica Beckham jersey sold worldwide.

For the uninitiated on the customs of world soccer jerseys here are pictures of Beckham and his jerseys at Real Madrid (top) and Manchester United (bottom).





Basketball Fan

He's over-the-hill and the only reason he's doing this is so his wannabe-a-celebrity wife can be in LA and "act."

She's a no-talent sloot and neither of them will amount to crap in the US.

What if he kicks azz over here and shows the world just how bad we really are?

Personally, I think fumbling Jurgen as the men's coach was worse for soccer here in the US.