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(From New Straits Times (Malaysia))
SPAIN STG135M `SILLY' TAG ON BECKS David Beckham has revealed that it would take STG135million to release him from his four-year contract with Real Madrid.
Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is thought to be planning a move for Beckham in the summer, but the 28-year-old England captain confessed that he cannot believe any club would meet the 200m euros get-out clause in his deal.
Asked about the size of his contract's release clause, the STG25m midfielder said: "It is a massive amount of money. I think it is about 200m euros, something like that, something silly." Such a bid would almost treble the world record STG47m that Real paid Juventus for Zinedine Zidane in 2001.
But Beckham and …