$210,000 A Day!?

Yes! If you’re David Beckham.

If you’re a soccer football fan, you’d know that he just signed a 5-year 128 millon pound deal with the Los Angeles Galaxy. You work that out and that’s more than 70,000 pounds a day! This is the biggest deal ever so far for a soccer football player. By a looooong mile.

Convert that to our humble currency and we triple that to a lovingly obsence figure of S$210,000 a day. For the next 5 years.

Imagine what you could do with that amount of money?

You could buy one HDB flat a day! woohoo! The whole of Toa Payoh could be yours! You could tell your banker to shove off saying ‘I want to pay off my 30-year mortgage TODAY! muahahahha!’

Or you could wait a week and then walk into a Ferarri showroom, have them show you around, have them recommend you the Modena and then you snigger and say, ‘I’ve seen 37 other people driving that car around.. it’s too common! Do you have something more expensive? muhahahah!’

Or maybe you could the buy planet Mars or something… get creative a bit ya?

Considering that the American “soccer” league is a relative backwater (what does that make the S-League? Ha!) compared to the European one and they are still prepared to wave this amount of money in front of his chiseled face, it truly is amazing.

And is also a reflection of how BIG the American market is to be able to afford this type of wages for just one Brit. And they pay even more for top players in the NBA, NFL, MLB. Isn’t this insidious capitalism just simply amazing?

Anyway, I am now his biggest fan. Anyone who can create that sort of wealth kicking a ball around has my undying adulation. I’ve always liked the bloke but to mention that before meant getting a lot of stick from the ‘real football fan’.

Because DB07 was just too popular with everyone.

Even with those short-skirted japanese schoolgirls who don’t know a thing about “socca”. Can’t be associating myself with them if I’m a ‘real football fan’, can I? (I don’t mind actually… Ha!)

I hope my girlfriend doesn’t read that….

I mean to play a game you love once or twice a week and have someone pay you $210,000 a day to do that? And have short-skirted japanese schoolgirls worship you? Greatest job in the world. Just don’t get caught by the wife.

Oooops, he did get caught.

But people still love (paying) him. And David’s not too bad looking either. Plus he’s not a bad guy, my only gripe is that his voice is a bit whine-y. If he had the crisp tones and accent of a nice upper-crust English snob, he’d be perfect!

And the best thing is David Beckham is still a long way from being the first sports billonaire.

Tiger Woods is on his way there seeing that he makes almost US$100 million a year. (That’s more than S$420,000 a day) So David’s still got some catching up to do.

Doesn’t that make us feel a wee bit better now?