Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber will not allow David Beckham to leave the Los Angeles Galaxy until November at the earliest. Garber said any talks regarding a return to Milan will have to take place at the end of the current season. “We’re going to wait until after the season before we get there,” Garber said. “We’ve heard from David that he wants to go back to Milan and he wants to play for the English national team. We’ve also heard from him that he also wants to spend the rest of his career here. So we’re going to get through this year and let the Galaxy take this as far as they can take it and then sit down with David and his people and figure it out.” Since David has returned back to LA, he has had mixed reactions from the fans and words with two spectators. However, Garber said he considered the matter dealt and sought to draw a line under the controversy. “You know, it first starts with the fact that we’ve got a team that was struggling and now they’re doing well. On Saturday we’re going to have what could be the largest crowd in the Rose Bowl for an MLS game when the Galaxy play FC Barcelona. We’ve dealt with the incident that happened with David this week. We don’t want to see our players interact with fans or even be interpreted as encouraging fans (onto the field). We dealt with it, he was fined for it and he gets it now.”
Garber added that Beckham had been spoken to again since last Saturday’s incident in Kansas City when he reacted to comments from the stands that were abusive towards his wife. “We have (spoken) and David’s very passionate and let me say this, we’ve got fans that are saying things in our stands about David, about his family and these are things that no player in any sport, no person should ever have to deal with. That doesn’t excuse any reaction from any player but if I have anything to say it’s that we’ve got a guy that is really working hard to build this game, that’s really trying hard to get his team to a championship, so let’s get focused on what’s going on on the field and move on.”
