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Anonymous
America is lame, I'm leaving.
>> Anonymous
I'm sure he's looking forward to playing in the UEFA Cup
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>> Anonymous
We never wanted you anyways you prissy faggot
>> Anonymous
And you Americans said he'd make everyone watch "Soccer".
>> Anonymous
go on take the money and run CHOOCHOOCHOO
>> Anonymous
Finally Beckham can play real Football again.
>> Anonymous
>>423604
sorry bro they shut down NFL Europe
>> Anonymous
American here:

I'm happy for Beckham if he leaves, really. The MLS is such a waste.
>> Anonymous
He'll be back in April after he's finished tarnishing the reputation of AC Milan with his mindblowing faggotry. Hopefully Gattuso rapes his wife or something.
>> fashion diva - delivering bottled hot water to dehydrated babies !3wJfpCMhKc
>>423586
That doesn't even make sense; Americans don't care if people watch soccer or not
I care, and that's why I'm dedicating my life to show Becks as the fraud he is. Seriously he crushed my dreams
>> Anonymous
It's only a 6 month loan.
>> Anonymous
fuck david BECKMANS
>> Anonymous
I predicted this happening. Beckham goes on loan and the ignorance of the American public will think he's leaving everything.

Becks going to AC Milan during the MLS close season. Its called going on "loan". He'll be back with LA after.
>> Anonymous
>>423697
No, he will leave for good because the MLS has a little thing called the salary cap and he bites the shit into it with Dondon. DonDon and VidBec will be off the team by January and the Galaxy will buy a shitton of defense.
>> Anonymous
Milan, why you do dis? You are my favorite team, why must you waste your money on players long past their prime instead of focusing on building a FUCKING TEAM? Hasn't real taught you anything?
>> Anonymous
>>423569

I think the MLS has a bigger problem:

It sucks. It gets dominated by superior players on superior teams and since Americans don't know shit about soccer (football, futbol, what the fuck ever) the talent pool isn't as large as it could be.

He took his money and left. I couldn't care any less.
>> Anonymous
I think the only way for football to gain popularity in the usa is, either winning or doing really good in a world cup, or hosting another. Hosting another probably the more likely at this state, and something I would really like to see.
>> Anonymous
As an American, I would just like to say OH GOD NO! WHAT WILL WE EVER DO?! BECKHAM WAS SUPPOSE TO INTEREST US IN SOCCER, AND NOW THAT HE'S FAILED, ALL OUR DREAMS HAVE BEEN COLLECTIVELY CRUSHED! DEAR LORD NO!!
>> Anonymous
Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out, soccerfag
>> Anonymous
>>423885
It's never gonna be as popular as it is in the rest of the world, so get over it. As kids we grow up playing a wide variety of sports, whereas you fags grow up playing soccer, and thats it.
>> Anonymous
>>423912
Not true, all kinds of sports are popular in different countries across Europe. In England we have cricket and rugby with wide appeal, in France basketball was more popular than football for a while. In Spain bull fighting is still a massively popular spectator sport. In much of eastern and northern Europe ice hockey is way popular. Maybe it's time for you amerifags to man up and admit that you just aren't that good at the sport.
>> Anonymous
if soccer is so easy then why are no amerifats good at it?

too busy tackling eachother in pads? I wouldn't blame you since padball requires no skill
>> Anonymous
haha be happy soccer isnt one of the top 3 sports in America or else wed have all the best players and the best league you pathetic eurofags
>> Anonymous
>>423938
>padball

Pretty cool name bro, if you really wanna rage amerifags start calling it "handellipse".
>> Anonymous
>>423940
one word: no.
>> Anonymous
>>423931
I'll be the first to admit that we aren't very good at soccer (except for the women, lol) but do we care? No. Soccer is gay and boring.
>> Anonymous
>>423940
lolno, Euro dominance of the sport is irreversible.
>> Anonymous
>>423938
It's not that it's so easy (which it is) it's that its gay and boring.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>423954
matt stairs should fight him
>> Anonymous
lol at people who believed he was going to do stuff.
>> Anonymous
>>haha be happy soccer isnt one of the top 3 sports in America or else wed have all the best players and the best league you pathetic eurofags

God you're a retard, ITT: Exactly why football will never be one of the top 3 sports in the US, cos you suck at it.
>> Anonymous
>>423968
No one cares about pussy euro kickball
>> Anonymous
>>423970

again... cos you suck at it
>> Anonymous
LOL trust me if we had the kind of support and the turnout for soccer as we do for football, we would have THE BEST leagues THE BEST players, why? Because we have about half the pop. of Europe alltogether, thats probably a couple good players, oh and dont forget the money, we would be able to buy out the best players everywhere, If America had huge support for soccer and was the #1 watched sport here then Ronaldo would already be here.
tl;dr
America has greater pop. and money, and if we wanted we could rule the soccer world.
>> Anonymous
>>423982
again... cuz no one cares about it. The only people that play it are high school girls and little kids, because we turn ten years old and start playing big boy sports.
>> Anonymous
Good, the MLS doesn't need you.
>> Anonymous
>>423998

no, you couldn't. cos you suck at it.
>> Anonymous
>>423998

you can say the same thing about every country. whats your point?
>> Anonymous
lold at britfag comebacks, touche mates
>> Anonymous
>>424005

Big boy sports? such as?
padball? try rugby americunt
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
you couldn't say the same about all countries,there's basically only America, lets see there's Russia, they are to busy shoveling snow to do anything, and China who is too busy trying to make good basketball players to do anything too.
>> Anonymous
You're playing for the Galaxy, what did you expect?
>> Anonymous
>>424005

big boy sports = rugby with pads?

big boy sports = standing around for 3 hours while someone tries to hit a ball with a stick?
>> Anonymous
Rugby is probably the most unskilled sport ever, all you do is run around with a ball wildly as people are like "DURR I WILL GET U" and then OMGZ a pass to someone else as the whole other teams runs towards them, AT LEAST football has some sort of strategy, you cant give some guy a ball and yell "run" as the other team is like "GET HIM GUYS!!!!"
>> Anonymous
>>424023

and then theres europe, which dominates world football.
>> Anonymous
>>424034
12/10
>> Anonymous
>>424023
Russia like football, brah.

>>424034
Agreed, and I'm English.
>> Anonymous
>>424042
9001/10
>> Anonymous
>>424042
How is it easy to get on a team?
It's not easy at all to get on a team, you dumb fuck. You need to go to college, which has 119 Division 1 teams, and you have to stand out from those 50 or so players on the team for an NFL team to even look at you. Shows how much you know, eurofag.

And explain to me how football is dumbed down rugby please, Mr. NFL expert
>> Anonymous
Beckham wasn't even close to being the best player in the MLS.


Good for him, all he ever did was come here and blow massive cock by playing on the worst team in MLS.
>> Anonymous
>>424019
hey faggot, we're not fighting with you, unless you want to be on the soccer side of this
>> Anonymous
As a Galaxy fan I find it ridiculous that there's all this fuss over a few England caps. But I don't really care, to be honest. IMO we should sell Becks and buy an entire new backline and 2 midfielders
>> Anonymous
>>424060

and fuck yeah, I'm the only American soccerfag in this thread. Fuck off, NFL
>> Anonymous
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this thread is cancer blah blah blah

cheom cats blah blah blah
>> Anonymous
The only good thing about soccer are soccer moms. I do not want Beckham's mom, she is probably old.
>> Anonymous
Niggers.
>> Anonymous
>>424205
reported
>> Anonymous
>>424060
England caps mean a lot to an English player.
Jamie Carragher does not count, he's not English he's scouse.
>> Anonymous
>>424218
faggot
>> Anonymous
Uh... guys. Hes only leaving on loan, just like he did the other year...

And Milan are probably taking him cause its free, cause they will get around 15 million euros on merchandise and as a backup for Pirlo.
>> Anonymous
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>>424984
>> Anonymous
>>425015
If you didnt notice, every amerifag on this thread thinks hes leaving forever.
>> ArsenalFC !3aV0WyLT9Y
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wait come here plz
>> Anonymous
>>425037


lolwut

too old for arsene, way too old. you must be under 21 to play for arsenal
>> Anonymous
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>>426550

last winter he was with Arsenal on loan so he can keep his fitness up for the games with the national team
>> Anonymous
>>426643
training with a team for fitness reasons does not equal going on loan and it certainly does not equal interest from arsenal.
>> Anonymous
>>426650

in the end it will be the same thing, i dont believe he'll play for the first team
>> Anonymous
>>426685

no it's not.
going on loan means your name is on ACM's player list, ACM has to pay his salary.

fucking about with Arsenal = nothing except the chance to take Cesc Fabregas' cock in his tight arse.
>> Anonymous
I like /sp/ arguments.

-Soccer sucks because it's gay and boring nobody likes it.
-No, you just suck at it.
-No, it's gay
-NO U

Are you guys 6?
>> Anonymous
>>426768

go troll somewhere else
>> Anonymous
>>426768


well only fat stupid inbred rejects would think football (round ball) sucks.

o wait
>> Anonymous
>>423569

is that a real neckbeard on Becks or is it shooped?
>> Anonymous
AC Milan + Becks = Scudetto every year
>> Anonymous
In the news: not this

no one cares about soccer

why did he come here in the first place?
>> Anonymous
>>427096

unsuccessful troll is unsuccessful
>> Anonymous
>>427096
in fact, america cares so little he makes double what kobe or lebron makes
>> Anonymous
>>427096
Because professional sports, in the U.S., are the dream of the best athletes around the world. To make it in America means one is truly a pro.

The fact is though, there's little interest for soccer here.
>> Anonymous
There's no other thread for it, so did anyone see REAL MADRID BLOW IT?
>> Anonymous
>>427100

http://blogs.payscale.com/ask_dr_salary/2007/10/salaries-of-pro.html

>Beckham's annual salary will be $5.5 million a year

http://hoopshype.com/salaries.htm

>Kobe Bryant $21,262,500
>LeBron James $14,410,581
>> Anonymous
>>424072
Me too, I wish we never got our independance. Maybe, the NFL would mean real football and not too fat dudes trying wrestle each other with a ball.

Why the fuck do they call the ball a pigskin? Is it really made out of a pig's skin? Maybe that's why too many fat dudes play it, it's because there's ham inside.
>> Anonymous
>>427116
troll is troll
>> Anonymous
>>427114

haha yeah, isn't he slated to make in 10 years what Lebron/Kobe would make in 5? (note that lebron chose a contract shorter than 5 so he could make EVEN MORE CHEESE in 2010)
>> Anonymous
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>>427116

lol'd
>> Anonymous
>>427114
oh i'm sorry, i should have been more specific. two hundred and fifty fucking million over 5 years, 5.5 million of which is his salary.
>> Anonymous
was he here or something? this is such non-news
>> Anonymous
>>427121
>>427121
http://top--10.blogspot.com/2008/05/top-10-highest-paid-football-players-in.html

i'll just leave this here
>> Anonymous
>>427127
And if you had read the link...

>So what is the origin of the $250 million number? It was part of a January press release crafted by Simon Fuller, the brainchild behind American Idol and the Spice Girls. Fuller, who is also David Beckham's business rep, was actually referring to the $250 million "potential value" of Beckham's contract. For Beckham's pay day to actually equal $250 million, Americans are going to have to go ga-ga for soccer.
Let's crunch the numbers and see where Simon Fuller got this potential $250 million. We have David Beckham's $5.5 million annual salary over 5 years and his guaranteed extra million each year, that's $32.5 million. He is also being paid $25 million by Herba Life for placing its logo on his jersey. That gives David $57.5 million. Add $20 million in "existing" corporate endorsements from sponsors such as Motorola, and that brings David up to $77.5 million.

Here it is again:
>Fuller, who is also David Beckham's business rep, was actually referring to the $250 million "potential value" of Beckham's contract. For Beckham's pay day to actually equal $250 million, Americans are going to have to go ga-ga for soccer.
>> Anonymous
>>427121
btw, nba cap rules prevent NBA players from getting humungous salaries. Even shaq when he was the highest paid was getting paid ~23 mill a year, I think. Kobe already has an offer from olympiakos that's more representative of a top flight soccer contract- 30+ million a year
>> Anonymous
>>427139
http://top--10.blogspot.com/2008/05/top-10-highest-paid-football-players-in.html
>> Anonymous
>>427141
I'm sure if you net Kobe and LeBron's earnings, they'd be more similar to those numbers, considering $49 million of Beckham's supposed earnings on that site is certainly a far cry from his salary of $5.5 million
>> Anonymous
>>427152
not to mention, it isn't even correct, as the whole $250 million thing has been refuted here:
>>427139
>> Anonymous
>>423569
all i have to say is......

neckbeard
>> Anonymous
"AC Milan is one of the biggest clubs in the world," said Beckham.

"It doesn't mean I'm leaving the States - I'm still very committed to being a Galaxy player. I came to the Galaxy to win trophies and I want to do that."
>> Anonymous
>>424054
Even that hunchback of Blanco was better than Beckfag.