Landon Donovan Rips David Beckham
Interesting to see Landon Donovan say what everyone else is thinking regarding Beckham’s status with the Galaxy. Below are some interesting thoughts from Donovan’s interview with the Guardian.
“All that we care about at a minimum is that he committed himself to us,” Donovan said. “As time has gone on, that has not proven to be the case in many ways – on the field, off the field.
“Does the fact that he earns that much money come into it? Yeah. If someone’s paying you more than anybody in the league, more than double anybody in the league, the least we expect is that you show up to every game, whether you’re suspended or not.
“Show up and train hard. Show up and play hard. Maybe he’s not a leader, maybe he’s not a captain. Fair enough. But at a minimum you should bust your ass every day. That hasn’t happened. And I don’t think that’s too much for us to expect. Especially when he’s brought all this on us.
“I can’t even say he’s a good team-mate any more. He’s not shown that. I can’t think of another guy where I’d say he wasn’t a good team-mate, he didn’t give everything through all this, he didn’t still care.
“But with Beckham, I’d say no, he wasn’t committed. Let’s say he does stay here three more years. I’m not going to spend the next three years of my life doing it this way … I don’t want to have soccer be this way. I’ve got to confront it somehow. If that’s the way he’s going to be, fine, then hold him accountable. Bench him. Just say, ‘We’re not going to play you, we don’t think you’re committed’.”
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:01 am
This is the same Landon Donovan who a couple of months ago was on loan at Bayern Munich and saying he wanted to extend the loan till the end of May, but they sent him back to the USA because he is rubbish? Pot, Kettle etc. Landon is just jealous thats all.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:39 am
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July 2nd, 2009 at 11:06 am
Minor edit…..the guardian took the qoute from an advance copy of ‘The Beckham Experiment’ by Sports Illustrated writer Grant Wahl.
July 2nd, 2009 at 4:30 pm
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May 18th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
David Beckham is my idol and i wish that i was as good as him in the game of football.’`’
July 15th, 2010 at 11:44 am
i heard that David Beckham is also suffering from OCD.’;: