Dominic Adams

Husband I Father I Account Executive I The whole duty of man

[Nativ @Nativ__app]

Football is a game of space and time.

The jump to first-team football isn't just physical. It's about processing speed.
Reading the press before it arrives. Making the decision before you have the ball.

Loans aren't a step sideways. They're a way of closing the gap, one level at a time.

[Soca Warriors 🇹🇹 @socawarriors]

Trinidad and Tobago's U-17, and Inter Miami CF Academy U-16 goalkeeper, Levi Williams, has been named to the 44-player MLS NEXT All-Star roster.

[Nativ @Nativ__app]

When a loan stalls on a League Two bench, every week of radio silence craters a player’s market valuation. Strategic Loan Managers aren't just tracking minutes; they are auditing environments to actively manage asset depreciation. #FootballData #SportsAnalytics

[Nativ @Nativ__app]

The difference between a multi-million-pound academy investment leaving on a free transfer or generating a £1M relocation fee comes down to the speed and granularity of data visibility.

[Nativ @Nativ__app]

Top clubs are shifting.

Instead of treating loans strictly as a path to the first team, they use them to build a senior resume, protect asset value, and engineer profitable permanent transfers.

[Nativ @Nativ__app]

Roughly 75-80% of U21 academy players sent out on developmental loans are eventually released by their parent Premier League or Championship club.

But a high release rate isn't always failure of talent. It's a structural reality of asset management. 👇

[PSG Infos @InfosPSG]

🚨 Luis Enrique explique pourquoi Khvicha Kvaratskhelia vaut chaque centime que le PSG a payé pour lui :

«La première fois que son nom a été évoqué, je savais honnêtement très peu de choses sur lui. La Géorgie n’est pas un pays qui produit régulièrement des joueurs qui attirent l’attention des plus grands clubs européens, donc il y avait naturellement une certaine curiosité.»
«Un scout m’a dit : “Ne regarde pas le ballon. Regarde les défenseurs quand il le reçoit.” Je trouvais cette instruction étrange, mais il avait raison.»

«Lors d’un match avec Naples, chaque fois que Khvicha touchait le ballon, deux ou trois défenseurs se dirigeaient immédiatement vers lui. C’était comme si toute l’équipe adverse changeait de forme à cause d’un seul joueur.»

«Après vingt minutes, j’ai arrêté de me focaliser sur ses dribbles et j’ai commencé à observer la réaction qu’il provoquait autour de lui. Les meilleurs joueurs ne se contentent pas de jouer le match : ils changent le comportement de tous les autres sur le terrain.»

«À la fin du match, j’ai dit à mon staff : “Si les défenseurs sont déjà aussi inquiets à son sujet maintenant, imaginez ce qu’il pourrait devenir dans trois ou quatre ans.” C’est à ce moment-là que nous avons compris que nous avions affaire à un talent spécial.»

[Dominic Adams @_DomAdams]

@j_antz1 How greeeedy

[Kachii @badasskachii]

If you weren't watching United in late 2015, you will never understand the hype. We were playing dreadful sideways football under LVG but boy did he give a lot of youngsters minutes. He really had us believing Borthwick Jackson and Guillermo Varela were our long-term fullback pairing for the next decade😂. His crossing technique was so pure it belonged in a museum. His crossing accuracy in 2015/16 was genuinely higher than half the starting left backs in the Premier League right now. He was putting it on a plate every single game

[Manchester City @ManCity]

Pep's Taxi: 10 years later! 🚖

Pep finally gets the chance to show Braydon where he kept all of those trophies... 🏆

[TobyWrites @tobyasky]

I’ll tell you something for free.

At the highest level of football, there are certain things you cannot fluke.

Glasner won the Europa League with Frankfurt, this was a time big teams use to drop from UCL into Europa, so he had to face teams like Barcelona on the way. Still, he won the Europa.

He came to Palace, with a small budget compared to the other English teams, he won the FA Cup, the first trophy in Palace’s history, he beat Man City to win it. You can’t fluke that, he’s a winner.

He qualified them to Europa by winning the FA Cup , but they dropped to Conference league because of the multi-club ownership saga with Textor. Despite the setback, he has just won an European trophy for a South London club.

In 2 years, he has changed a club’s history and won 3 trophies for them if we add the community shield. He did this while losing big players, lost his captain January, lost his best player to Arsenal in summer, lost Olise.

This guy is a winner.

[Football Critix @footballcritix]

Edinson Cavani: "PSG ile sözleşme imzalarken gol bonusu istemedim. Memleketim Salto'daki yoksul çocuklara her yıl gizlice 500 bisiklet ve futbol topu gönderilmesini şart koştum. Kulüp bunu gizli tuttu, ben de her Noel'de o çocukların mutluluğunu izlemek için gizlice köye gittim."

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Bailey Wynne @bailey_wynne2]

CL footy at Lake Como, sounds like a hell of an away day.

[GUVNA B @GuvnaB]

The boy becomes a man.

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: A very emotional Bruno Fernandes explains why he rejected a €200M contract from Saudi Pro league:

"Instead of becoming the richest person from my town ever, I want to live my dreams. And I want to pass these values on to my children."

"Look, my wife.. she chose to live my dream with me when I was still 17. I have been with her since age 16. At age 17 I went to Italy and I earned €1.7k per month. There was a lot of uncertainty. There was nothing guaranteed. My wife had her own life, her own dreams, and she said: 'I am going to help you, and that's what she did'.

"Today we have a beautiful family, with 2 beautiful kids."

— @StevenBartlett

[Palace Report @PalaceReport]

Rio Cardines vs Arsenal. 🇹🇹

97 Minutes played
23/31 Accurate passes
2 Chances created
1 Big chance created
7 Defensive contributions
2/3 Accurate crosses
4/10 Ground duels won
6.7 Fotmob Rating

[Tyrell Malacia @TyrellMalaciia]

Grateful for every moment, every challenge and every memory. ❤️

Thank you to the fans, my teammates, the staff and everyone at the club for the support throughout this journey. It’s been an honour to wear this shirt.

Wishing the club all the best for the future. 🙏🏾

[Crystal Palace F.C. Academy @CPFCAcademy]

90 minutes. Premier League debut. First senior start. 👏

A proud afternoon for Rio Cardines and the Academy. ❤️💙

Congratulations, Rio!

#CPFC

[Nick Huber @sweatystartup]

The worst part of summer is watching a bunch of otherwise great parents spray chemicals on their children.

Don’t put anything but Zinc oxide on your children’s skin.