David Beckham stands to make millions from football shirts bearing his name which cost just £3.50 to make but which are being sold for £96, it has been revealed.
The football idol was lauded this week after he revealed he will donate his entire salary at new club Paris St-Germain to a French children’s charity.
But it seems he will still be able to take home a huge pay packet as the shirt sales will be taxed at just 30 per cent – compared to the 75 per cent he would have had to pay on his reported £150,000 a week salary.
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Big business: David Beckham is donating his salary from new club Paris Saint-Germain to charity but is still set to make a fortune from shirt sales, which will be taxed at a much lower rate than his salary would have been
According to The Sun, sponsorship experts say this means Beckham can make more from the sales than from what would have been his £3m salary over his five-month deal with the French club.
Two days after Beckham signed, PSG were last night allegedly trying to broker a £110m, five-year deal with Emirates Airline, prompting rumblings from cynics that Beckham, 37, has only been brought to the French capital to act as a cheerleader rather than actually play football.
The former England captain is likely to have only have 15 games for PSG before his contract runs out in June.
But his shirts are apparently already selling well at PSG’s Champs-Elysees club shop.
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Brands expert Professor Jean-Noel Ka[pferer say the Hong Kong-made shirts will prove a major hit in the US and Asian markets.
It was revealed yesterday Beckham is being lined up as a player-coach in the Qatar Stars League later this year.
Qataris own PSG and want to use Beckham as a figurehead for the Gulf state’s hosting of the 2012 World Cup.
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