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Palace & Giants - Loyalty is a curse 😂

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

@DrizzyDraught @ndlovsas Size doesn’t matter in soccer because the sport presents natural counters to height and natural counters to lacking height. The composition of those counters creates the matchups that play out in the game

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

@CPFCFAN95 I know there’ll be the odd examples like JRS and Ozoh who played with us a little before they went on loan but both of those players got decent loans and sending one of them to sporting sounds good until they come back in January with 180 mins of game time 😂

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

@CPFCFAN95 I get what you’re saying but I’ve said it before our issue isn’t that we’re loaning players whilst being Crystal Palace it’s that we expect good loans based purely on what a guy does in PL2. If we won’t give him a start why would they?

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

@DrizzyDraught There’s a huge player base in soccer yes but the vast majority of those people never have the opportunity to develop into top level pros. They’re not all in academies, they aren’t all talented or take it serious, there’s hella kids in Brazil with crazy skills that don’t go pro

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

@DrizzyDraught I disagree it’s not worse odds to make it to a t5 league. Late bloomers are a large slice of the population and football allows those players to reach the top level later then basketball or NFL where the competition is less consistent league to league

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

@DrizzyDraught Yes but the players making so much is mainly a conversation about NBA players there are a few euroleague guys with great deals but they’re comparable to soccer with less opportunity & the majority of the basketball leagues you mentioned are hardly pro they make next to nothing

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

2 more years of Japanese Zidane I don’t deserve this much joy 😭

[Crystal Palace F.C. @CPFC]

"Thanks for everything. We will get another trophy. I will give my all, I promise you. See you soon." 🫶

- Daichi Kamada 🎌

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

@PaulSpacey @TalkJuJu The solution is the football development system but the athletes will be the compounding factor once we solve the systemic issues (& we will)

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

One big US soccer thought: our youth development has to get more affordable. One of my kids plays travel. It’s at least $5k a year & this isn’t even super high end. We can afford it, thankfully, lots can’t. Youth sports costs in the US are out of control, soccer more than most.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Congrats to Belgium — they dominated us. But I’m not sure we would have beaten any World Cup team today. On the biggest stage in the biggest game in US soccer history in front of an electric home crowd, our team completely no showed and embarrassed itself today.

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

It’s one thing to play bad it’s another thing to not show the fuck up. There’s plenty of performances that would’ve made us proud in defeat but this was not one of them

[🇺🇸🇫🇷🇳🇴 @starsnstripesfc]

No defending this Pulisic performance. Not good enough and he’ll be remembered for injuries at this point

[skellll @willhite_keller]

@W_B_Rick This is what happens when we let rich kids be the only ones that advance in us soccer

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

If you are a US Citizen and you aren’t rooting for USA against Belgium, you are a traitor. No other way to put it. You can’t be trusted if you are rooting against your own country in the World Cup.

[The Heretical Liberal 🇨🇦 @Rob_ThaBuilder]

Regardless of where you stand on Balogun-Gate, the whole reaction to both sides highlights some very key differences in the American vs European mindset.

In the American mind, "getting it right" is the most important thing. Thats how justice is served, is by getting to the correct result based on the play on the field.

The European mind is different though. They have an instinct towards bureaucracy and are obsessed with process. The Process must be respected. Respecting process is more important than the specifics of what happened on the field.

And thats why you get this wild take thats fairly common where a Euro will say something like "He didnt deserve the red card, but once it was given it cannot be overturned!".

To the American mind, justice is served by getting the call right, regardless of process. To the European mind, justice is served by respecting process, regardless of the result.

Its a fascinating look into the psyche of both, and if I'm permitted a little armchair psychoanalysis of both groups, id say the reason lies in their history. The Europeans spent centuries as the peasant class of Europe, essentially being forced to accept whatever shit the aristocracy piled up on them. There was no "appeals" process, they took what they had too, because there was no other option. In this environment, a certain "acceptance of one's fate" or immunity to overt injustice likely seeped into the national psyches. No one had success by "fighting the power", the power imbalance was simply too great. What eventually saved them though, was process. Rules-based orders were the only thing that gave them a semblance of power vs the aristorcracies of their upper classes. And so they came to revere Process as the Ultimate Good and working OUTSIDE process as the Ultimate Evil.

The Americans, on the other hand, never developed their national psyche in the world of Kings and Aristocrats. Class was far less rigid in the new world, and risk-taking WAS highly rewarded there. "Fighting the power" to "do what was right" WAS greatly rewarded during the American Revolution when a few great men "fought the power" and were gifted with what would become the most powerful, prosperous country on Earth. And so a certain disdain against "process" took hold, a general feeling that "process" was only as good as long as it provided fair and just outcomes. As opposed to the European model, where "process " was the only thing that had given them anything close TO "fair and just outcomes".

So in that context, the massive gap between both sides makes sense

Or maybe this is all nonsense and its just anti-American, pro-Euro tribalism, who knows 🤷🏼‍♂️

[claybraham lincoln @ClayLaSoul]

Exactly two years ago, UEFA suspended a one-game ban on Jude Bellingham during their literal last tournament. 🤷‍♂️

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

@gazbod @UwDienstwillige Everyone’s trying to make this seem like this is about the integrity of the game lmao I’ve watched people complain about the U.S. from before the tournament started I just can’t pretend this is neutral

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

@gazbod @UwDienstwillige Nah I get it this is all about Belgium wanting to have a better chance to advance and people hating the U.S. otherwise the reaction would be proportional to the other suspended cards for offenses that were actually red cards

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

@ThePalaceWay IMO the fact that the price is so high is proof he didn’t want to go there.

At least 1 of those 13 million is out of respect for us surely 😂

[DJ @DJ_CPFC]

@ThePalaceWay Ruined his legacy is a bit much they offered him £13m a season wtf 😂 this is the real world it’s a job