[lang_en]David Beckham rings wife Posh to celebrate Milan move[/lang_en]
[lang_en]By Tom Bryant
David Beckham joyfully phoned wife Victoria after sealing his dream move to AC Milan and told her: “Ciao Bella.”
Becks will stay in Italy until the end of the season – while Victoria will remain in LA with their three children.
A source said: “Victoria was over the moon. She knows how important AC Milan is to him and fully supports his decision. It will be tough with him being apart from the family for periods of time but they are stronger than ever.
“They are like two teenagers in love who can’t wait to see each other whenever they get the chance.
“Victoria thinks it is like how they were when they first starting dating.”
Under a unique “timeshare” agreement, Becks, 33, will stay with the Italian giants until the end of the season and then will play for LA Galaxy between July and October.
He will then return to Milan in November for the rest of the following season.
Posh’s acceptance of the deal draws a line under a difficult few months for them.
The 34-year-old was initially wary of her husband staying full-time in Milan because she didn’t want to move the whole family over.
The pair reached a state of “uneasy deadlock” with neither refusing to budge.
But Becks’ agent Simon Fuller – the man behind the Spice Girls – helped broker a deal which has suited them both. Speaking at the Prince’s Trust Ball to the Mirror, Fuller said: “The children will stay in LA with Victoria so that their schooling is not disrupted.[/lang_en][lang_en]
“No one considered the possibility of him playing for both teams before, but because I’m not part of the football industry I can see that more things are possible. I’m not so constrained by what has gone before. Sometimes I’m not even aware of what’s gone before.
“I am not just coming in and shaking things up for their own sake. I want to make things better. If people don’t like it, that’s their problem.” It is understood he was so determined to stay at Milan he funded most of the loan fee.
Meanwhile, Posh is delighted that Brooklyn, 10, brothers Romeo, six, and Cruz, four, will stay in LA.
The source said: “The children have made lots of friends and Victoria would have hated to have seen them all uprooted again.
“The schools are really great in LA and she had a lot of reservations about the ones on offer in Italy.”
The deal follows weeks of negotiations between the two clubs, during which Milan balked at the size of the transfer fee Galaxy were demanding – thought to be around £12million.
Beckham, who still harbours dreams of playing in the 2010 World Cup, will not have the lengthy summer break enjoyed by most European players.
Instead, he will have time off before rejoining Galaxy in July, and then another break before returning to Milan in November.
Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani told Sky Sport Italia yesterday that an official announcement was imminent. He said: “There is a great probability that Beckham will stay at Milan until June. I am very optimistic – all that is missing is a signature and we need to iron out a couple of things.
“In any case we are almost there. We are on the right track and the signature could arrive in a few hours today or tomorrow at the very latest.
“The important thing is he keeps playing with the Milan jersey.”[/lang_en]
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