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[David™ @gallostarr]

How my work persuades me to work during my lunch hour....
A thread.

[David™ @gallostarr]

@MessiXtraHQ Give him credit though

[Sam Dean @SamJDean]

Lots of people have posted this extraordinary image of Lionel Messi without any credit to the photographer. Someone has even edited the credit out, which is just pathetic. It was taken by Julian Finney.

[David™ @gallostarr]

@CaseyToGo Can you elaborate on your reasons of why you are for this?

[David™ @gallostarr]

@bogachev_al Mex cs England?

[David™ @gallostarr]

@espnW @espn wtf!?!?!

[David™ @gallostarr]

🤔

[New York Post @nypost]

USMNT's World Cup $12.8M payout will be shared with women's team after equal pay CBA https://t.co/wZ8yHUtKK4

[New York Post @nypost]

USMNT's World Cup $12.8M payout will be shared with women's team after equal pay CBA https://t.co/wZ8yHUtKK4

[MLS Transfers @MLSTransfers]

Riqui Puig played on a torn ACL in the 2024 MLS Western Conference Final and got the game winning assist.

[David™ @gallostarr]

@lhenry019 WTF ain’t no way?

[David™ @gallostarr]

@CantHitWRISP Depends do you want to support the lakers or clippers of MLS?

[KinG £ @xKGx__]

🚨The clearest angle yet of Mac Allister pulling Hamdi Fathi’s shirt inside the box!

And the referee still says: no penalty. ❌

[slayer @nofoids]

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[David™ @gallostarr]

@FOXSports No replay on the potential penalty?

[David™ @gallostarr]

@FOXSports No replay on the potential penalty?

[David™ @gallostarr]

@TelemundoSports Y la replay del posible penal en el tercer gol?

[David™ @gallostarr]

@TelemundoSports Y la replay del posible penalti?

[Jmack111 @Jmack1117]

So no replay on the foul by Arg before the 3rd goal! 😂🤣😂🤣 @FIFAcom @FIFAWorldCup

[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.

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

Matt Freese with everything on the line..