By IANS
Los Angeles : Los Angeles Galaxy’s David Beckham is likely to be back playing in England next year as part of a money-spinning series of matches organised by his new club, reports BBC.
Galaxy has already lined up a lucrative friendly in Australia.
And club owners Anschutz Entertainment Group’s chief executive and president Tim Leiweke said further games in England are planned.
He said: “It’s more than likely we’re going to take a trip over to ‘Jolly Old’ England and do a game or two.”
Reports suggest the exhibition games could be worth around six million dollars a game and Leiweke admitted that is not a long way off the mark.
He said: “I don’t think it is six million dollars a game but I think it could be a pretty good percentage of that. And if you can do six games a year, that can add a significant amount of value to the team and its revenue.”
LA Galaxy will play Sydney FC at the 83,500-seat Telstra Stadium on November 27 and Leiweke is keen to exploit the possibility of further matches in Asia as well as England.
“We have the Australian dates locked,” he added.
“We have a couple of dates in the US that we’re going to do and we’re mindful of giving David some rest so we’re trying to be a little focused on making sure we don’t overload the schedule this year.
“We’re still focused on training in Asia and doing games there next year at the beginning of the season.”
Meanwhile, Beckham has told his new teammates to use Real Madrid as the inspiration for turning around their season.
Galaxy have won just three games in the league so far this season and were knocked out of the US Open Cup by a semi-professional side two divisions beneath the Major League Soccer, the premier division in the US.
Chief coach Frank Yallop’s men are second from bottom in the MLS Western division standings, although they have played fewer games than most of the teams close to them in the table.
Beckham said: “It doesn’t concern me at all.
“Halfway through the season, people were saying in Spain that we were never going to win. Still and we ended up winning La Liga.
“Things at the moment here with the Galaxy are tough and we’re not doing that well in the league.
“But you have to take in to consideration that we have had players out injured and on international duty and now they’re back.”