@OJ_Shakewell@rirokpik Andy stop trolling. You called off work 3 times in the last 2 weeks so stop being an idiot on Twitter and lock back into reality
@raginweald@RupertLowe10 They’re called women Anthony. Stop being scared, talk to them with charm and respect, and you will no longer feel the need to sound like a fool on X.
@ajayiyout@FabrizioRomano Salty morons who are mad he chose Madrid over the Prem. Obviously his skin color plays a part for some of the media treatment he gets too.
@_La_Leyenda@HappyPunch Doesn’t change that Khabib won the fight with relative ease. Their popularity and money is irrelevant once the fight starts, that’s the beauty of the sport
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.
@AGiftFromSorrow@wil_da_beast630 No as humans and horses are different species. You Mikey boy are a human as are those who happen to have darker or lighter skin than you
@KBanny83@ChadimirPoutine Yet it’s being led by an amazing director and a talented cast of actors, so remove the culture war bullshit and yes it has the makings of a good movie. Something Nolan is good at making.