After only getting through 45 minutes of a pre-season friendly against Tirana back in October, AC Milan centerback Alessandro Nesta has finally gone under the knife to fix chronic back problems by the same surgeon that advised him against surgery just 5 months ago.
“According to SkySport24, the lawyers of David Beckham and LA Galaxy have found an agreement on the terms for the termination of his American contract. Now it’s up to Milan to make a deal with the player.”
After being replaced in the 57th minute of their 2 - 1 loss to Inter Milan due to what looked like an injury to his right calf, David Beckham opened up to the press about the ongoing saga between AC Milan and the Los Angeles Galaxy and the difficulties that could lie ahead.
Big scare at the end for Inter after they should have put the game away three different times in the second half.
Former LA Galaxy head coach Ruud Gullit has weighed in on the AC Milan / David Beckham situation and what could possibly be in the future of both player and club.
Spanish giants Real Madrid have retained their position as the richest football club in the world — according to an annual survey issued by accountancy firm Deloitte.
from Deloitte UK
Welcome to the Deloitte Football Money League 2008 (register to download your report). This is the eleventh year of the publication, profiling the largest clubs in the world’s most popular sport. The Deloitte Football Money League is the most contemporary and reliable analysis of clubs’ relative financial performance and is released less than nine months after the end of last season, as soon as all the clubs’ revenue figures are available to us. For the purposes of this publication, we look at the best publicly available measure of financial comparison: turnover from day to day football business operations.
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from the LA Times:
Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber today said he wanted David Beckham’s future resolved by Friday or he would not approve any transfer between the Los Angeles Galaxy and AC Milan. Speaking at a World Cup 2018/2022 function in Columbus, Garber said that on Tuesday he had sent a letter to AEG, which owns the Galaxy, telling it to resolve the situation within 72 hours.
”If David believes that he wants to continue his career in Milan and Milan wants to purchase him, we’re interested in accommodating that request,” Garber said. “But right now it just continues to go round in circles and it needs to come to a conclusion by Friday.
“There’s no reason why this should drag on. They either want to do it or they don’t want to do it.”
I like it! Nobody is bigger than a league and no one is bigger than the game. I like how Garber is trying not to let this story hijack his league before the season starts.
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…Is what the News of the World (UK) is reporting the LA Galaxy are asking of AC Milan for the services of David Beckham, otherwise AEG expects Becks back in LA.
Choice quotes from Tim Leiweke after the jump.
