Ou Sparks

Stimming is love

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

You don’t get to just not be a piece of shit anymore when you die

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

Uhhh fuck Lindsay Graham

[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.

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

Wendy Fucking Byrde

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

@fcb_dexx @its_ND_ What the hell is this guys problem

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

5:25 like oooooo the neighbours hate this

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

So very much miss hearing from Klopp 3 times a week

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

I keep rescuing leeches

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

I quit my job to listen to Drake

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

There is life in the pain of loss, for the privilege of love in the first place.

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

They say no good deed goes unpunished

[Ben Pescod @benpescod_]

Absolute icon. Never forget it.

#LFC

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

Am I having a stroke

[faboian @Faboian]

🚨 Vincent Kompany confirms FC Bayern München are were once they are did.

They became the first ever to have the first as in the era of that when of a football club and the league began.

Congratulations 🎉

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

@Footballtweet He’s back

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

@Mrjamieohara1 He could replace at least 14 of these dudes

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

someone once told me “emotional intelligence is the discipline of sitting with a feeling long enough to understand it before you hand it to someone else” and that honestly changed how i move.

[(Fan) Shedy🔰 @FcbShedy]

How on earth have I not seen this video of Messi before 😭😭😭
That goal is an absolute beauty

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

You know what, man, we're all in this
Now, whether we're all in this together
Or you're all in it for yourself
The fact of the matter is that we're in it

[Ou Sparks @7Sparky_7]

@nadine5324 So that’s why my septum so deviated