Forabout a 5-6 year spell Beckham was terrific. A really top class footballer actually.
United were the best team on the planet for a 3-4 year spell and he started every week in a midfield alongside Keane, Scholes & Giggs; three of the best midfielders in the last 50 years. You don't get in that side every week if you can't play.
I couldn't tell you his goals record but I'd venture to say it was double figures or around there every year, with the same and change in assists. And he went both ways; none of this Ronaldo/Ginola/Pires shit of waiting around on the halfway line for the ball to come to you, he worked his cunt off at both ends of the pitch.
He was a super footballer, don't let the extraneous bits of 'Beckham' cloud your judgement.