Not to be all nerdy, but it kind of irks me when people argue about Beckham's position as a winger or where he'd play in the modern game. Football hasn't actually changed that much in some respects.
There's a sort of overarching narrative that the 90s in England was all 442, wingers and strikers, etc. That's not my recollection. Sure, it defended as a 442, and sometimes you would push both wide players on, but it was pretty commonplace for one of your wide players to be a "winger" and another the be a "midfielder." Newcastle and Liverpool were good examples of this, as were Arsenal when they used Parlour off the right. We were the best.
And Beckham was the best at that in-between role, where you had to be a midfielder covering ground and an attacker making chances. It's a position that still exists in the modern game, they just usually defend in an ever so slightly different space. It's also part of the reason Beckham didn't often dribble, the other being why the hell would you when your distribution is so good that you don't need to move into a better angle to play the vital pass? At youth level he was pretty great as a dribbler, but he was so outstanding at other things that it made that skill largely irrelevant, so it didn't really develop once he hit the first team.
If he was coming through now he'd probably be an even better player.
