Beckham ‘to make mint from £3 PSG shirts sold for £96’

Posted Sunday, February 03, 2013 by The Sun

Jersey boy ... David Beckham last week

REPLICA football shirts which cost just £3.50 to make but sell for £96 will net David Beckham millions, it was predicted last night.

Sponsorship experts reckon he will rake it in from tops bearing his name and squad number 32 after his deal with Paris Saint-Germain.

The income would outstrip the £3million wages he has chosen to give to a French children’s charity — and save him crippling taxes of up to 75 per cent.

Shirty-two ... at PSG's shop

Profit from the sale of merchandising is subjected to just 30 per cent in tax across the Channel.

Beckham ‘to make mint from £3 PSG shirts sold for £96’ Two days after Beckham signed, the French club was last night reportedly brokering a £110million five-year megadeal with Emirates.

It immediately prompted rumblings that he was bought more as a cheerleader than a player in a bid to put PSG on a similar footing to Manchester United or Barcelona.

Former England captain Beckham, 37, is likely to play in fewer than 15 games during his five-month contract and did not feature in Friday’s 4-0 win at Toulouse.

But Beckham shirts are already flying off the shelves from the PSG shop on the Champs-Elysees.

Brands expert Professor Jean-Noel Kapferer forecast the Hong Kong-made blue and red tops would flood the lucrative Asian and US markets.

It was revealed yesterday that Beckham has been pencilled-in as a player-coach in the Qatar Stars League later this year.

It is part of his £20million role as a poster boy of the 2022 World Cup in the mega-rich Gulf state.