Re: 5/7 - Philly Daily News - $occer Owes Beckham I usually like smallwood's articles about soccer but I really think that MLS is in different situation than the NASL was years ago when they brought in pele.
Re: 5/7 - Philly Daily News - $occer Owes Beckham I agree, just happy to have writers locally that know more than Beckham. Wish he would have done a little more research into the Golden Boy's current form though. Truth is Madrid has to be pissed that he is leaving with the way he is playing right now.
Re: 5/7 - Philly Daily News - $occer Owes Beckham I usually really like Smallwood, but this article is reeking of bad reporting and no research. The league is only paying Becks $400k and AEG, the multi-multi-billion dollar investor/operator of the Gals is paying +$5mil. Gillette, addidas and freaking Kelloggs is paying the other $20mil a year. To compare that to what the NASL is just retarded.
Re: 5/7 - Philly Daily News - $occer Owes Beckham Seems like he was up against a deadline, and said "I know, I'll bash soccer/MLS....that won't take long to finish". He really comes up short on actual operational MLS details on this one. He stops just short of pulling out the "Wookie Defense" as an argument.
Re: 5/7 - Philly Daily News - $occer Owes Beckham I actually sent him a quick note with the couple links of serious business analysis seen recently. Be interesting to see if he reads or responds. (Well, that was a couple days ago, so probably not).
Re: 5/7 - Philly Daily News - $occer Owes Beckham thats interesting...i only sent him a note once during the WC, but it actually turned into a full blown e-mail coorespondence conversation...i figured he was good for getting back to his e-mails