Beckham earned Real Madrid massive £315M


David Beckham's four years at Real Madrid made the Spanish giants a staggering £315 MILLION, it has been revealed.

Real marketing director Jose Sanchez told The Sun: "In four years that Beckham played in Madrid we have generated more than 440 million euros in marketing and commercial activities.

"In that time, profits from merchandising increased by 137 per cent."

The amazing figures do not even take into account the £115m which winning the Spanish title is worth.

LA Galaxy hope for a similar windfall after handing Beckham a £130m deal.

Beckham, 32, has a £10m-a-year contract with adidas, while other major deals are worth at least £11m a year.

great business decision to let him go

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Real Madrid made more than £300m during David Beckham's four years at the club.
Beckham, who is set to make his debut for LA Galaxy in the USA later in July, moved to Spain for £25m from Manchester United in 2003.

And Madrid claim they sold one million shirts within the first six months of Beckham's arrival at the Bernabeu.

"In four years that Beckham played in Madrid we generated more than £300m in commercial activities," marketing director Jose Sanchez told The Sun.

"In the time that Beckham was here, profits from merchandising increased by 137%," he added.

The former England captain, 32, will be officially unveiled by LA Galaxy on 13 July after signing a five-year contract with LA Galaxy which could be worth up to £125m in salary and endorsements.

Advertising firm Saatchi and Saatchi last month told BBC Sport that Beckham's departure would not affect Madrid's finances.

Alex Fynn said: "If Real win La Liga and Beckham goes, there won't even be a blip that will be felt.

"If Real win La Liga and Beckham goes, there won't even be a blip that will be felt," Fynn told BBC Sport.

Deloitte and Touche rate Real as the world's wealthiest club in terms of sales as its revenues rose to £202m from £186.2m in the last 12 months.

Says it all really, with the Mediapro deal we have enormous sums of money coming into the club.

wtf?

We didn't let him go anyway.

The whole blame game again!

Is this all Real Madrid fans know to do? To blame coaches, then Raul, then some poor kid like Pavon, and now Beckham?
It's never the club's fault.

I'm not blaming anyone for anything. I'm simply saying that Perez, his greatest fan when it came to milking him for all he (was) worth, and the guys after him, tried to sit him down and get him to sign a new contract to no avail. I don't blame anyone, in fact I thank Beckham for stabbing us in the back and leaving for America where he'll earn several hundred million pounds a week (right Crewking?). No blame. Just admiration!

Anyway what a silly topic.

What a star Becks really was for RM

Yeap, overseeing their worst period in 50 years

well he didnt know he was going to be in a squad full of shit when he signed did he

Not financially apparently

It was partly himself that made them shit by giving the ball away 90% of the time :

thus ruining the way Real Madrid have always played, playing 'the ball on the ground, always on the ground'

And it was also him who won them the title this season, weird isn't it, he never changed the way he plays but when Real as a team loses, it was him, when they win, it can't be him, even when he was MotM on so many occasions this season.

Ricky, cut the bullshit for once please. He didn't win us the title. Capello did. Beckham played like the uninspired, unmotivated moron he was until he was told he wouldn't play for the club again (this of course, is after he backstabbed the club and scooted off to America), only then did he raise his game and play football worth watching. As for him being MOTM on "so many occasions", balls to that. One or two good crosses in a game don't make you a MOTM. I understand that you're biased towards him, have a fetish for his pillowcases or whatever - but do look at the scene neutrally for ONCE. Look at the numbers. How many assists did Beckham make since Christmas? Compare it to the other midfielders' stats - you'll see he wasn't the one who won us the title. Sheesh!

It's amazing seeing what a club Real Madrid has become, just listening to you lot make me want to vomit.

It used to be a club about loyalty, about building legends. Nowadays, even legends like Roberto Carlos, Raul and Beckham just get the little applause after winning a league title and fans couldn't wait to see the backs of them.

People talk about English football being corrupted with money, well it's clear that it's across world football as a whole.

I love bitter madrid fans

The way i look at it is becks joined a madrid team in decline with the like of raul, zidane, carlos slowly losing their form and consistancy, and key players like hierro, makelele moved on an werent replaced. Also didnt beckham play out of position for a while in central midfield. Its silly that people use him as the scapegoat, because there are so many other factors for madrid going off the boil in recent seasons

If Real have erned so much, then why are they being stingy on deals?

Dude are you seriously calling Beckham a Real Madrid legend? Are you on pills by any chance? The guy left of his own accord, dammit. Yes we couldn't wait to see the back of him because it was a giant step forwards. An undroppable player with a pretty face and little talent is trouble for a team. I don't claim to know what goes on in the Real Madrid dressing room, but if Ronaldo was said to be causing problems, I'm damn sure Beckham wasn't bathed in milk either. Now for heaven's sake don't give me the whole "he was responsible for you lot winning the title" crap. I've replied to that shit enough.

Now, Roberto Carlos and Raul ARE legends of the club. There's no disputing that. But I think it's abundantly clear that his time had come, he had chosen to move on in mid-season, and we accepted it because it was for the best. You think we won't feel strange seeing our team play without RC? I haven't ever seen a Real Madrid without him. But the time was right, so we didn't lament about his moving. That's not calling "can't wait to see the back of him". Raul also needs to leave for his own and the club's betterment but that doesn't mean we can't wait to see the back of him. You're simply blowing everything out of proportion, but that's you.

A legend is treated as one. A passenger isn't.

I love a postwhore

Firstly Beckham wanted to play in the centre. He said so openly, on several occasions. Secondly, we never used him as a scapegoat. If anyone we blamed Perez for having bought him and made him an undroppable player. Beckham never could adapt to the Spanish game - too bad, and happens to anybody. He should have been used as a squad player and NOT have been made undroppable. We blamed the administration for buying the player and using him the way they did. NOT the player himself.

Oh, and Raul, R.Carlos, Helguera, Salgado etc have all been equally criticized by us, as much as Beckham, for poor performances. It's just that certain people on here keep coming to point fingers at us and curse us for blaming their poor little baby Becksy.

add fat ronaldo to the list as well.

Oh shut up avon ffs you make such a tit out your self some times lad.

Add no one to the list. The second statement he made was right, about key players like Mak and Hierro not being replaced. Zidane, RC, Figo and Ronaldo were still pretty kickass players themselves in 2003 when Beckham came. They just didn't have the ballwinner behind them.

He's right in a way that he didn't fit into the team's way of playing - but that happens all the time in football, he should just have been used as a squad player instead of trying desperately to fit him somewhere in the team, and of course not allowing him to be benched. Centre mid, right wing, right back, WTF was Queiroz thinking.

Real Madrid made more than £300m during David Beckham's four years at the club, not "Beckham earned Real Madrid massive £315M" by the way

and if you believe that then your as much a tit as avon

Honestly, who gives a shit. He's no longer a Real Madrid player thank f**k.

thank f**k for the Galaxy, Man

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it was a horrible business decision,and Capello not playing him led to him signing for another club, and the management let it happen.Perez was a good businessman

Becks has never played in the centre before he went to madrid. maybe he did fancy the role but that doesnt necessarily mean you guys shouldve played him there. it was done more to accomodaTe him i reckon. he was englands key player when he went to spain, a year on he wasnt half the player, probably due to a loss of confidence or form caused by playing out of position. Had madrid used him correctly from word go i think he wouldve made a much better impression at least for the first two years. Lately age has caught up with him a bit but as weve seen under capello when used correctly he can play an important role in the team

His decline had begun before he left Man Utd though, Fergie was hardly sad to see the back of him? He had a bad World Cup 2002, and he had a bad 2002-3 season, by the end of it Solskjaer was keeping him out of the team on the right flank.

He did quite well in 2002 i thought, dont foget the injury meant he was well below 100 %...I dont think becks had a bad season necessarily he was still outstanding in many games, however i think due to his fallout with ferguson and also for tactical reasons he was left out for solskjaer in certain games. solskjaer had a fine season btw

Dude you just didn't read my post at all. Nevermind.

Because they haven't signed a new manager yet

I thought bernd schuster was all but confirmed

The Galaxy are crazy if they think they'll make anywhere near what Real Madrid did. Americans don't go in for soccer the way Europeans do. The best they can hope for is to avoid bankruptcy. I still don't even know why Becks wanted to come play in the States, the competition is nowhere near what it is in a major European league.

You are so wrong, though. Galaxy jerseys will be the hottest jerseys off the shelves - ahead of any European club - in the US for at least the next year. And there's no denying it. I think you underestimate Americans. This is David Beckham we're talking about, the celebrity. He's the biggest soccer star to hit hte States in 30 years. You can bet his jersey sales will be sky high not only in the US, but especially in places like Japan and Korea.

I think when all is said and done and Beckham is retired he will have a much bigger impact with the Galaxy than he ever did with Real Madrid.

No dude, if you remember when he first came he was used on the right wing itself, not in the centre, for a few games. He was pretty abysmal there too. That's why we had to shift Figo back there and since Becks had to be on the eleven he had to move to the centre (where he'd said he would be comfortable playing, but obviously wasn't).

Again, not blaming the player. It was the administration.

you have to give player a little more time than that especially when adapting to a new league

Beckham wanted to play in the centre as evidenced by the fact he has convinced his national team coaches to play him in that position as well. He likes the comfort of sitting back and launching balls forward so that even when he was played on the right he'd still drift back to the centre. Beckham joins a long list of players at Real Madrid who didn't play in the natural positions. Not unique in that respect.

Abysmal eh? He scored on his debut, making a fantastic run into the middle even though he was a right winger to head the ball in, better finishing than Raul

And Canada

The Galaxy will make money off of this deal, the worst they can for is to break even.

Trust you not to read my post fully.

How about the next bunch of games where he was benched halfway through the game because he was playing like shit and went to the dugout smashing water bottles around?

they tried that in a couple of games with england but not until hed been at madrid a couple of years. it didnt work all that great. becks is a natural wide player at the end of the day