Ka-pi96 said:
Or maybe it just shows that players aren't as good when they get older? |
Aged 28, he was already old? What about Zidane that was already 31 when Beckham joined?
He was just a set-piece/crosser man. Madrid got him, because they knew he would sell Jerseys.
Let me give you an excerpt of then Real's president (Ramon Calderon) comment: A few days later while speaking to the students at Villanueva University Center in Madrid, Calderón said that Beckham is "going to Hollywood to be half a film star", adding "our technical staff were right not to extend his contract, which has been proved by the fact that no other technical staff in the world wanted him except Los Angeles"
