With a yearly salary estimated at approximately $10 million, David Beckham is obviously set to become the Los Angeles Galaxy’s designated player under the so-called “Beckham Rule,” a reality that has implications for the Galaxy’s brightest U.S. star, Landon Donovan. The “Beckham Rule” once again allows any MLS club to sign one player for as much money as it can afford with his salary only counting against $400K of its league-regulated $2.2 million salary cap. Which begs the question: what happens when a club already has a player who makes more than $400K. The Galaxy, for example, already pays Landon Donovan more than that. And he’s not the only one: Eddie Johnson of Kansas City, Carlos Ruiz of FC Dallas, and Real Salt Lake’s Freddy Adu all make more than that, too. Do they automatically become “designated players?” No, not in 2007, anyway. Donovan and the others will have their salaries “grandfathered,” which means the rule doesn’t count this year, but the bad news is that by 2008, the Galaxy will be forced to either trade for a second designated player slot (the New York Red Bulls for example already have two), or trade one of either Donovan or Beckham. “They better not trade me. I’m going to be [angry],” Donovan told MLSNet jokingly. It is, however, something Alexi Lalas and co. will have to think about. Added Donovan, “I’m assuming the sooner the better to get that out of the way so we’re not at March of next year trying to get that to happen.”