"I'm not going to apologize for the way I felt," he told The Times. "What I feel badly about is that I should have been a man and told David how I felt as opposed to telling a reporter.

"David and I will sit down when he gets back and just talk it through. What you don't get from reading a few excerpts and what you do get from reading the whole book is that we all want David to be here. We all want him to succeed, and he wants to succeed.

"Something happened at some point last year where a switch went off, and that's what I want to talk to him about, and we'll figure that out man to man."

Excerpts from Wahl's book were published in Sports Illustrated last week and caused a stir.

"All that we care about at a minimum is that he committed himself to us," Donovan was quoted as saying about Beckham in the book. "As time has gone on, that has not proven to be the case in many ways -- on the field, off the field."