'Ticking timebomb' Beckham should go, says Real director

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Simon Talbot in Madrid
Friday November 24, 2006
The Guardian

With David Beckham playing an ever more peripheral role and the stalemate over his contract extension at the Santiago Bernabéu still unbroken, a Real Madrid board member has said that the club would prefer the former England captain to leave, describing his continued presence as "a ticking timebomb".

The Spanish football magazine Don Balon quoted an anonymous board member as asking: "Why would we spend [£16m] over the next two years for a player that we know that coach does not like?"

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