I don't think I'm about to enter into the politics of greed - but .... did I really hear what I think I heard?
The clearly very talented footballer that is/was David Beckham is looking for a new challenge so is leaving Real Madrid. Fair enough. However, the next sentence stuck in my craw just a tad when he said "It's not about the money" - That's $162,000,000 US 
It's not that I doubt his talent, but can anybody really be worth a million dollars per week, or put another way £42 per minute for the next five years?
If you really want to find a new challenge try stringing a sentence together without "you know" or sending out Victoria with the prerequisite that she must return with no additional shoes, bags, houses, cars or £70,000 ear-rings.
I feel I need to justify myself - if anyone has worked for their salary then good luck to them and on one level I don't really care ... but this is more than some 3rd world countries entire aid budgets. It's the vastness of the payment that makes it almost obscene - at least to my mind.
Then I see in the news that we're worried that we're paying doctors £120,000 p.a. in flat rates and retainers with no real incentive to do anything. - Just skipping between stories that means Becks could fully fund 20 doctors for a year and still not notice he'd missed a months money...
Am I going totally round the twist or is something slightly rotten in the state of Denmark?
