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Leonard Lim
Sports Reporter
Is it really Milan Becks wants?
March 10, 2009 Tuesday, 08:00 PM
Leonard Lim thinks Beckham's moves to stay at Milan reeks of desperation.
David Beckham is fast becoming a joke. The midfielder will do anything, it seems, to remain in the frame for a spot on the England team at the 2010 World Cup. Forking out a few million pounds, going back on his word, what next for the 33-year-old who is already on the decline? Last week, Beckham paid 3 million pounds from his own pocket to ensure his loan period at AC Milan was extended till the end of the Serie A season. Some may say it showed his commitment to playing his way back into the England set-up, but to me it reeks of desperation. The other option - returning to LA Galaxy and playing in the backwater of Major League Soccer, which kicks off in the middle of this month - would spell disaster for his England hopes. But when Beckham's loan to Milan was first announced last October, he pledged he would return to the United States in time for the start of the 2009 season. The move to Italy, he said then, was just to keep himself fit during the MLS off-season, so he could fight for a spot in Fabio Capello's national squad. And now, Golden Balls is reneging on his word. Becks now says he will return to the Galaxy and play for them between July and November, the second half of the season. But the damage to his reputation has already been done. Want more proof of the depths Beckham will plunge to to keep his England dream burning? Last December, he claimed it was his lifelong dream to play for Milan - but this fact was curiously not in his autobiography. 'Sorry, I thought I had mentioned it,' he replied when reporters questioned him on this. 'Maybe I will write another one and I'll definitely mention it, and I'll have some pictures of me playing there too.' These recent moves mirror the sad state of his career. His transfer from Spanish club Real Madrid to the Galaxy in 2007 was due to his pop-star wife Victoria Beckham and the lucrative payout being dangled before him. She wanted to rub shoulders with the Hollywood elite, and the Galaxy gave him a $365 million, five year deal - the richest contract in world sport. What's the big deal about Beckham anyway? In Theo Walcott, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Aaron Lennon, Capello has three outstanding wingers who can slot into the right midfield position, are much faster than Beckham and fitter too. Tags: beckham, football 
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Leonard who are you? what kind of journalist are you? your arguments are weak and make you look a fool. find another occupation - for your own good. this so called article is laughable
This article is another example of run-of-the-mill writing present in our local newspapers, so give Leonard a break. Maybe he had a tight deadline to meet so he just rattled off whatever pap he had in his head.
Journalist, yeah right.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article5600589.ece
opps sorry forgot the link
this stuff is laughable....you can't seriously believe yourself to a journalist can you leonard?
i can't be bothered to waste anymore of my time correcting your writing skills or lack of, so heres a link to a great article on beckhams situation as written by matthew syed of The Times paper. A great article which surprises and challenges the obvious views of beckham....which is why matthew syed was a former sports feature writer of the year in the UK.
seriously, can we get some proper columnists at the straits times already?
"The midfielder will do anything, it seems, to remain in the frame for a spot on the England team at the 2010 World Cup."
- and would any professional footballer not want to play for their national team?
"But the damage to his reputation has already been done.
Want more proof of the depths Beckham will plunge to to keep his England dream burning?"
- your sensationalizing of this issue is really loathsome.. i seriously doubt anybody in his right mind in the footballing world would think of this as a damage to his reputation.. you associate playing at ac milan with plunging into depths? seriously? seriously? do you even know what a football looks like?
"In Theo Walcott, Shaun Wright-Phillips and Aaron Lennon, Capello has three outstanding wingers who can slot into the right midfield position, are much faster than Beckham and fitter too."
- while i agree that these threesome do indeed have some talent, they have as yet nothing to prove for it. whether they are being misplayed by their club managers or not, beckham brings something to the table that these three cannot, skill and experience. sadly, our st reporter has neither of these two qualities either.
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