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[Jayson🇺🇸 @JayPhoebus]

😂😂

[J. 🇭🇷 @JosipFCB93]

Oh look at me I'm Alexander Sorloth and I only turn up twice a year, when Im facing Barcelona. Fucking prick

[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.

[Andrew Joseph @AndyJ0seph]

The U.S. soccer landscape will legitimately improve once Alexi Lalas loses his platform

[Jayson🇺🇸 @JayPhoebus]

Alexi Lalas is such a clown, he should have no say in the future of US soccer… 🤦‍♂️

[Harrison Lee @HarrisonCLee]

Thierry and Zlatan saying they wouldn't have become soccer players because of the costs of the American youth system, then seeing Lalas say it's a great system because it makes a lot of money for some people really sums it all up nicely

[Krrish @KrrishFT]

This worldcup really reveals how many people are either retarded or dont know shit about football.

[Tandy @LFC_Tandy]

Imagine being so good that people start believing the whole sport is rigged and designed for you to win. 🥶

[Jayson🇺🇸 @JayPhoebus]

TILLMAN AGAIN 🔥🔥

[Da Bronco @DaBronco0]

“WE AMERICANS 🇺🇸 MUST SUPPORT MEXICO 🇲🇽 FOR CONCACAF”

Me When England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Goes Up 3-0🤣:

[🌧️ @wstgoat7]

Being a Messi hate watcher must be the most demoralising experience ever

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

The GOAT plays football today.

[cold viet man nascar guy fuotball (blue check) @maqwelll]

Expanding this World Cup to 48 teams was a mistake, now we got teams like Germany actively diluting this tournament for the worst

[Jayson🇺🇸 @JayPhoebus]

Yall can all start putting some respect on the US Men’s National team now for the way they dismantled this Paraguay team that’s beating Germany…👀🇺🇸

[Neal 🇦🇺 @NealGardner_]

Btw, where are all those Brazil fans who scapegoat Raphinha for all that’s wrong with the national team now?

[Jayson🇺🇸 @JayPhoebus]

@jordyinit

[qǝlɐɔ @EMAWCaleb]

Watching Poch ball after 7 years of Gregg Berhalter

[Jayson🇺🇸 @JayPhoebus]

@agosoujr7 Is Ronaldo playing?

[Jayson🇺🇸 @JayPhoebus]

Brilliant Header from Congo 🔥

[Jayson🇺🇸 @JayPhoebus]

@YashRMFC @agosoujr7

[Jayson🇺🇸 @JayPhoebus]

@agosoujr7 First ever formation with two left wingers