Selling Becks is right, says financial expert

IT may be unimaginable to the 67,000 Manchester United supporters who witnessed David Beckham’s free-kick at Old Trafford on Wednesday night, but the word in the financial world is that offloading the England captain to Real Madrid would be a shrewd business move.

Rumours abound that the European champions are lining up a whopping bid for Beckham, somewhere in the region of £38million, to complete their set of the world's five best players.

He may be United's leading light, captain of his country and one of the most marketable men in world sport, but according to financial experts, the loss of Beckham would hardly register on the Richter Scale in the corridors of power at Old Trafford.