Top-selling Italian sports daily Gazzetta dello Sport splashed the news across its front page with a headline in English reading: 'Beckham Forever'. According to reports, it is being said that David loves being in Milan so much that he is considering staying there. Reportedly, the soccer star is learning Italian and is even considering taking a pay cut to stay on AC Milan as a midfielder. The paper also claimed that he was staying up until the early hours every day to brush up on his Italian verbs - not an easy task - and had downloaded conversation classes on his iPod for away trips on the coach and plane.Beckham has a current contract with LA Galaxy which is worth an estimated $200million over five years. According to reports, he is willing to sacrifice this in order to ensure a continued place within the England side. His contract ties him to LA Galaxy until the latter half of 2011, but he can get out after three which would be in October. If he wanted to stay in Milan, he would be able to move in the 2010 January transfer window but he feels this is to late because he would be almost 35. He wants to ensure regular football so he can play in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and Fabio Capello's No 2 Franco Baldini has been keeping an eye on him.
AC Milan vice president Adriano Galliani has also praised Beckham and said, "He is a great player. At first we were criticised for taking on a doll but now there is regret that he is leaving in March. We always knew that this was the deal. I always knew that he would be useful to us and for our plans." Baldini refused to comment on what future plans they had for Beckham but Gazzetta said that 'secret moves' were underway to ensure that he stayed at AC Milan.
source: DailyMail
