posted Jul 16, 2007

Good Idea! They can call it the LA/Beckham circus.

I can just imagine an army of blond cheerleaders roaming through the streets heralding the arrival of the LA?beckham circus with its Galaxy of stars!

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posted Jul 16, 2007

Beckham has done fantastically well for someone whose ability is so limited, his ability to make generate loot is world class, he football abilty is average.

Beckahm will generate cash for the 'LAGs' as you can be pretty sure sky will televise thier matches.

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posted Jul 16, 2007

Since I started watching seriously, I have had a chance to watch both the Premeireship and Mls and I really don't think that you can say that it is on par with League one. The Quality of the league is probably somewhere on the level of the Championship and on good days they could beat some of the lower level teams in the premerieship. Let's be serious here for a minuete. Nobody here is sugesting that they will beat Manchester United or ARsenal. If MLS was no better than league one or two do you really think Beckham would be coming over here? Probably not.

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posted Jul 16, 2007

I think he'll be grazing nicley on all his $$$$ over there. He really, really isn't a great player.

I could ask what premiership/la liga/serie A teams even expressed an interest in him ?

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posted Jul 16, 2007

comment by camdentownred
posted 32 Minutes Ago

I think he'll be grazing nicley on all his $$$$ over there. He really, really isn't a great player.

I could ask what premiership/la liga/serie A teams even expressed an interest in him ?
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Who was the one player that was the driving force behind Real Madrid's charge to win La Liga this past year? It was Beckham. Ever since he returned from the Bench in Febuary, no other player has played hard or worked as effortlessly to lead his club to the championship. DAvid Beckham is far from washed up. Bringing in a player of the calibre David Beckham helps MLS in its efforts too improve.

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posted Jul 16, 2007

In answer to your question it was Ruud van Nisteltooy and his 30 goals for Madrid NOT Beckham.

You may not be aware but in his last game for Madrid he was playing poorly, Madrid were losing at home and he got substituted, when he went off Reyes came on and scored the winnner.

Beckham aint the player you think he is.

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posted Jul 16, 2007

Van Nistelrooy may have scored the most goals, yes. Down the stretch how many of them were set up by Beckham? And yes Beckham was substitued in the Last game. But why was he taken off? His ankle was really realy killing him. The fact that he was able to play at all is a testiment to his competitive spirit. How many athletes to day, in any sport, would go out there and play on a bad ankle? David Beckham is about more than scoring. Infact he is at his best when he is setting up other players. When he actually starts playing for the Galaxy, he will start setting up other players and one of them will start getting noticed as a goal scorer in part because of Beckhams corner kicks and crosses.

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posted Jul 18, 2007

AmericanSportFan - you missed my point and supported it at the same time.

1. Lack of salary cap wasn't the only thing plaguing the NASL and it is not the true reason we have on in the MLS. After all - leagues all over the world do not have Salary caps and do not fold because of it. It is to create a closed, controlled league with a guaranteed profit margin for the few private owners who pay the admission fee to join.

True - most American sports operate on a closed door model - that doesn't mean the MLS had to. Again it's an artificial entity that will always lack the spirit and heart of the best leagues where everyone has a chance to make the top tier. BTW - teams who are promoted to higher divisions in England must also pay to be a part of that league. I will point out the financial success of football league worldwide with promotion/relegation to discredit your argument that it provides for a stable financial environment.

You missed the point on international play completely. I am not complaining about playing in the summer - that makes sense. I am complaining that MLS does not schedule season matches around international matches as they do all over the world. If your best players miss 1/2 of their club matches on international duty then can you really say the best team won? It's a joke and kills the game for the fans.

Your insistence that we will abandon divisions, playoffs and championship is wrong. The league is still trying to sell this to other sports fans so they are trying to make the format as similar as possible. Plus they make a boat load of money off of the playoff/championship games.

You said, "would you rather have a crowd of young hooligans half drunk ready to start a fight or a situation where you can take your kids and share your memories of the game?"

I opt for the former. The memories of the game for me are the quality of play and the win...not sharing a hot dog with my kid. Football is and always has been a young man's fancy and a place for older men to relive their glory days. It should have a lively atmosphere - cheering, arguing, singing, etc. "Family atmosphere" is exactly what has ruined baseball. I've seen more lively crowds at a tennis match than at MLS.

I am 40 years old and no I don't want to fight with a bunch of skinheads, but I don't want to have to listen to a bunch of whiny kids and soccer moms who are more concerned with their juice boxes than the performance on the pitch.

Surely a match between Toronto and Salt Lake lacks any competitive spirit in the fan base what so ever. Look at DC-NY or Chivas-Galaxy. That's what we need.

I am tired of you "left out" people who don't have a sport to call your own trying to claim football as the safe family game. No wonder it has failed here for so many years and that the player development has absolutely sucked.

You're not an American sports fan and you aren't a spokesman for the football fans in America either. We don't need you to defend our game - we can do that on our own while fully realizing the faults of it.

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posted Jul 18, 2007

You guys are all idiots...

Well... at least those of you that say this effort by the MLS will all go down in flames.

The fact is that the states have a population of about 43 million Hispanics that are crazy about soccer and if you get just 10% of the white population interested thats about 23 million more fans.

Those numbers together exceed the population of the United Kingdom and should be a solid base for "Soccer" in the states.

The League is in it's infancy and is building itself up. I give it 10 years and it will be on par with any league around the world. I'm sure it's a bit of a surprise to everyone that we here in the states are willing to be this patient. But we are and we like the direction the league is going in.

I just bought my Beckham jersey over the weekend and I've already seen some kids(I'm a teacher) wearing theirs on campus(summer school). It's to early to judge beckham... but I think in America anything is possible. Unlike OLD europe... HAHA Just Kidding!!!

You guys are way to pessimistic over there... And yes I know you think your just being realist. How about you let your grandparents be realist and the rest of you just dream of accomplishing the impossible. You might just surprise yourselves. And if you don't succeed... well at least you went for it...

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posted Aug 2, 2007

comment by AmericanSportFan
posted 2 Weeks Ago

comment by camdentownred
posted 32 Minutes Ago

I think he'll be grazing nicley on all his $$$$ over there. He really, really isn't a great player.

I could ask what premiership/la liga/serie A teams even expressed an interest in him ?
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Who was the one player that was the driving force behind Real Madrid's charge to win La Liga this past year? It was Beckham. Ever since he returned from the Bench in Febuary, no other player has played hard or worked as effortlessly to lead his club to the championship. DAvid Beckham is far from washed up. Bringing in a player of the calibre David Beckham helps MLS in its efforts too improve.

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dont talk such rubbish, please, just because ur getting him dont mean he's good.


jeez, you'd probably say the same for franny jeffers if he was moving to mls.

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