LOS ANGELES -- Au revoir, David Beckham.
Although your aides-de-camp keep insisting nothing has been decided, everybody knows your move to the French club Paris Saint-Germain is pretty much a fait accompli.
(By the way, David, I hope you're reading this closely because you really should learn the language.)
When the deal does become official -- which probably will be after New Year's to assure the greatest possible media coverage -- we hear a "movie star" unveiling will be staged in central Paris. Sounds as if this will be the biggest signing on French soil since the Treaty at Versailles.
And the French may wind up regretting this deal almost as much.