Hey…Shut up :( You’re mean

As far as I’m concerned, from a strictly professional standpoint, Laurie is right- you make an agreement (especially as publicly as Beckham did to advance football in the US), you’re obligating yourself to follow through. Anything less than that isn’t going to be or feel adequate to the fans. It’s a shame that some footballers just can’t seem to stick out commitments nowadays… If you can’t deliver, don’t make the promise. The whole “if idiots pony up the money” argument to me isn’t classy and is relativistic.

Beckham has begrudgingly earned my respect in the past (at Real Madrid) for the same reason Landon Donovan is sort of now. I can’t criticize Landon for leaving Germany because it was killing his career and frankly, he wasn’t up to the quality. The Molinaros of the world don’t deserve hate.

And let’s keep in mind that this came at a time when people were saying he was toast. Even he was pretty much thinking that way when he agreed to the deal. Then he put in a great run of games right at the end of his Real Madrid stint, which even led them to ask him to stay on for another year, but the offer had already been made.

His loan at Milan confirmed that he could still play. Unfortunately, Landycakes loan deal didn’t work out the same way.

Excuse me? He should have considered this before he signed a five-year contract that, with merchandising, would net him something over $100m.

Nobody forced him to sign. Nobody held a gun to his head. If he thought it would be bad for his career, he shouldn’t have come. Once he did, though, he had the responsibility to behave like a professional and give it his all.

He didn’t.

Good for Grant Wahl for telling the truth. I hope this seriously tarnishes the golden boy’s ability to mint money.

Furthermore, I’m no Beckham supporter by any means (far from it), but he has to prove himself to no one. Him staying in the MLS is going to do absolutely nothing for him and his desire to represent England in 2010. In fact, the only thing playing in the MLS can do is hurt him.

Back to Landycakes, while he did have a decent run in the Confed Cup, he still can’t make it in a real, competitive league. His loan to Bayern wasn’t a success. How do you claim that? He scored in some friendlies? Big deal…even Caracciolo can do that (side note: i dont expect anyone outside of maybe alessio or Serie A followers to get that reference lol).

The point is he quit on European football once, tried to come back and it didn’t work out. It seems to me that he’s a much different player when he plays for the NT – and so be it. There are plenty of players who seem to only be able to cut it for club or country (SEE: LUCA TONI).

Donovan should be the captain of the Galaxy plain and simple. When Beckham comes back in he knows he has to earn the respect of Donovan and that would be that. I’m sure a couple of games will constant running and hustle that Beckham is of course capable of will win Donovan over.

Also we’re not abandoning the Landycakes stereotype, some things are too good to just throw away.