MORE Zidane to MLS Rumors

By: Laurie | April 12th, 2007

I don’t know that this is really news, but the Zidane-to-Galaxy rumor has spread to Italy. Martha sent me this fantastic article Google-translated from the Italian. (I LOVE Google translations. They give people the world over an excuse to drink large quantities of alcohol, because I don’t think it’s possible to figure out what they say when you’re sober.) But at any rate. My favorite part of this article

“True E’ and every square has straight to go beyond the roof for a single player, than for we it is Beckham. But in rose we also have Landon Donovan, the better player American, therefore we had acquired the possibility to go around the “salary CAP” for an other athlete. Hour that has opened the Zidane track, we have spalmato the contract of Donovan on the next season so as to to be in rule if Zizou will decide to come from we”.

I’m far too sober to figure that out. Doesn’t “spalmato the contract” sound like something you’d see on “Sopranos”? (Watch your back, Landon.) But it seems to be saying that we can bring in Zidane next year, because we can just dump Landon and use the magically appearing second DP slot to bring in Zizou. Because Italy SO understands how that DP thing works.

But wait! This just into my inbox! TribalFootball, the site that thrives on unsubstantiated rumors, confirms what the Italian article says! So it must be true!!

LA Galaxy president Tim Leiweke has confirmed an offer is on the table for Zinedine Zidane to come out of retirement and join his ex-Real Madrid teammate David Beckham at the MLS club this year. “We have contacted his entourage about coming to play for us this year,” Leiweke told Gazzetta dello Sport. “He knows our door will always be open. His contract won’t be a problem.” Despite working to a salary cap, Leiweke says the Galaxy are cleared to sign Zidane and Beckham for this MLS season, which kicked off last weekend.

When somebody figures out how this works financially, let me know, okay? Because I’m dying to hear the salary cap and DP manipulations and shenanigans that would be required to make this happen. Still, though? Anything, however fallacious, that keeps the Zidane-to-Galaxy myth alive is golden as far as I’m concerned.

P.S. Technically Zidane has never, ever, not even once, activated my maternal area. Just so you know.

(And yes, this article did start out as part of the previous one. But when I got hit by the TribalFootball article, I decided it deserved a post of its own. And it had NOTHING to do with me being able to post another Zidane picture, okay?)