LONDON – Former England captain David Beckham may be miserable at his faltering career but he can console himself with his whopping salary, The Sun newspaper reported yesterday.
Beckham has been ditched from the national squad and has struggled to hold down a first-team place at Spanish giants Real Madrid this season. But the midfielder’s company Footwork Productions Ltd paid him a salary of around 19 million pounds, (N$260,3 million) the end-of-year accounts revealed.The huge sum is the 31-year-old’s cash earned from sponsorship deals, personal appearances and business ventures.However, it does not include his Real Madrid salary, nor money earned from partnership deals with his former Spice Girls singer wife Victoria.The accounts showed that Beckham shared a salary of 19.7 million pounds with two members of staff, with the global football icon certain to have received by far the lion’s share.A Beckham spokesman said the figure was so high because he paid himself just 100 000 pounds (N$1,3 million) the previous year.He also has another firm, Brand Beckham, which holds the copyright to his latest book, while his wife, 32, has her own company named Moody Productions.Meanwhile Beckham revealed there is no chance of him going back to English Premiership leaders Manchester United.”I had wonderful years at Manchester United – many, many great years there.But that’s finished, it’s over,” The Sun quoted him as saying.”Of course I miss my friends in Manchester and there are certain things I miss at Manchester – but I have moved on from there.”Beckham is stalling on a new two-year contract at Real Madrid after failing to secure a regular first-team spot under coach Fabio Capello this season.A series of clubs have already expressed an interest in moving for him should he be made available in January.US outfit Los Angeles Galaxy hope the high-profile player may be tempted to move to the city where one of his football academies operates.Such a move would be a major boost for the Major League Soccer competition.It could attract other world stars to follow suit, reviving US club football’s 1970s glory days when legends like Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, Johan Cruyff, George Best and Bobby Moore played out the twilight of their careers there.Nampa-ReutersBut the midfielder’s company Footwork Productions Ltd paid him a salary of around 19 million pounds, (N$260,3 million) the end-of-year accounts revealed.The huge sum is the 31-year-old’s cash earned from sponsorship deals, personal appearances and business ventures.However, it does not include his Real Madrid salary, nor money earned from partnership deals with his former Spice Girls singer wife Victoria.The accounts showed that Beckham shared a salary of 19.7 million pounds with two members of staff, with the global football icon certain to have received by far the lion’s share.A Beckham spokesman said the figure was so high because he paid himself just 100 000 pounds (N$1,3 million) the previous year.He also has another firm, Brand Beckham, which holds the copyright to his latest book, while his wife, 32, has her own company named Moody Productions.Meanwhile Beckham revealed there is no chance of him going back to English Premiership leaders Manchester United.”I had wonderful years at Manchester United – many, many great years there.But that’s finished, it’s over,” The Sun quoted him as saying.”Of course I miss my friends in Manchester and there are certain things I miss at Manchester – but I have moved on from there.”Beckham is stalling on a new two-year contract at Real Madrid after failing to secure a regular first-team spot under coach Fabio Capello this season.A series of clubs have already expressed an interest in moving for him should he be made available in January.US outfit Los Angeles Galaxy hope the high-profile player may be tempted to move to the city where one of his football academies operates.Such a move would be a major boost for the Major League Soccer competition.It could attract other world stars to follow suit, reviving US club football’s 1970s glory days when legends like Pele, Franz Beckenbauer, Johan Cruyff, George Best and Bobby Moore played out the twilight of their careers there.Nampa-Reuters
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