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[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔵🔴 EXCLUSIVE: RODRI TO BARCELONA, HERE WE GO! 💥

Deal agreed for Spanish midfielder to join Barça from Man City, all done for the former Ballon d’Or.

Green light from Man City to last Barcelona bid.

More follows. 💣

[Selección Española Masculina de Fútbol @SEFutbol]

⭐️⭐️ ¡¡𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗦 𝗕𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗘𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦 𝗗𝗘𝗟 𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗢!!

#VamosEspaña | #CopaMundialFIFA

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

☝🏽🇪🇸 Lamine Yamal: “Por ti y por la calle. De la calle a la gloria”.

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

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[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.

[Erling Haaland @Erling]

Well well well 😂

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨💣 BREAKING: Anthony Gordon to Barcelona, here we go! Official bid accepted now by Newcastle board and Saudi owners.

€70m fixed fee plus add-ons to bring final package over €80m for #NUFC.

Gordon set to travel this week for medical and contract signing at FCB. 🔵🔴✈️

[Futebol Nostálgico! @futnostalgico]

Ronaldinho. 2005. 🇧🇷🤩

[ceciarmy @ceciarmy]

El día en que Adidas hizo el anuncio más épico del fútbol sin IA

[Timbss @saidnothingyet]

I pray me and all my brothers find our Napoli.

[JR Levert @JRho_11]

Inside used to be punishment lmao

[Out of Context Libertadores @OC_Libertadores]

“¿Por qué no compraste Bitcoin en 2011?”

Yo en 2011:

https://t.co/oyeETxdh9F

[Motivaciones Fútbol @MotivacionesF]

No existirán mejores comerciales en la historia que estos 🇧🇷

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

Yamal vs Sommer. This moment 🤯

#UCL

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

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[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

Ousmane Dembélé, Ballon d'Or winner 2025 🏆

#UCL || #ballondor

[Cleveland Browns @Browns]

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[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🇺🇸 Heung-min Son to LAFC, here we go! Verbal agreement in place between all parties.

Son, ready to complete his move to MLS with Spurs due to receive fee in excess of €15m.

Son didn’t travel back to UK with Spurs squad as he’s waiting for documents to be signed with LAFC.

[GOOD JOB LARRY 🍊 @LarryJuneTFM]

I thank god everyday.