Real urged to drop Becks!

Real Madrid have been urged not to offer David Beckham a new contract by an anonymous board member at the Bernabeu.

Beckham has started only three of Real's last 14 games and contract negotiations between the club and the former England captain are believed to have stalled.

The 31-year-old's current deal expires in the summer, but the unnamed board member has urged the club to let the out-of-favour midfielder leave.

"We can't admit it but it would be best for both sides if Beckham left," he is quoted as saying in Spanish Football magazine Don Balon.

"Why would we invest £16million over two years on a player who is not to the liking of the coach?

"(Coach Fabio) Capello doesn't want him and (Beckham) can't carry on as things are, spending so much time on the bench because it would lose him some of his multi-million-pound advertising deals.

"It's no good for the club either, to have such a famous player on the sidelines like a ticking time-bomb."