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[Depressed Oracle Red Bull F1 Fan Account @FlyoutChase]

Him in 2035: “$30 million dollars really not a lot of money”

[️s @big_sam_atari]

POV: how it feels when you haven't had a haircut in a month

[Dolo 👁‍🗨 @e38]

EST Gee is genuinely the best lyricist, it’s just cut with so much fent that people can’t concentrate

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Daily Naruto @NarutoDaily_]

life imitates art

[NFL Drop @TheNFLDrop]

REPORT: The #Ravens believe QB Lamar Jackson is the current front-runner over Diego Pavia for the starting job this season.

[Deuce @DeuceThomas]

It was real being a fake Laker fan for 8 years ✌🏽

[Tans @tanmay1705]

No one believes you can pull a girl more than your girlfriend

[Avataryaya➡️ CEO 2026 @avataryaya_]

Not even gonna lie this the most relatable TikTok of all time 😭

[i like food @messedupfoods]

Excellent use of free will

[Adika @Adikastakes]

I just realized that I’ve wasted my whole life on the side of twitter that speaks English 😭

[Vogue Papi™ @itsdedinnn]

Bro these two nations might be bonded for life

[29K @29K_J]

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[BIG HYCE @thehyce]

do not go broke trying to play husband at a young age.

[JD13 @jmi1323]

Niggas don't know pain for real.

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