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[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@jasoncabinda Buttgers

[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.

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@stoolpresidente I agree Dave. It was an awful call. Not sure why they wouldn’t want the best players on the field. It’s all entertainment anyways.

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@MarkMaddenX He’s perfect for all star game. 1 inning. About his max

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@MarkMaddenX Who do you like in Mexico England matchup?

[Dan Rapaport @Daniel_Rapaport]

What a horrific, awful, horrible decision. Watch the game with your eyes. Balogun steps on the guy on accident. Potentially ruining our World Cup on a play that wasn’t even given a yellow in real time.

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@MarkMaddenX Horrific call. If it was Liverpool you’d be livid

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@stoolpresidente Trump has to intervene. There shouldn’t be another game held after that

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@MarkMaddenX Skenes?

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@MarkMaddenX You are 100 percent right. Bigger question is. Do we want Egypt to win tonight to avoid Belgium?

[Mark Madden @MarkMaddenX]

Misiorowski is what Skenes was.

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@DKPghSports At least we know he can hit something

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@ThePoniExpress I was always 2028.

[Andrew Fillipponi @ThePoniExpress]

If the Pirates had game 1 of a playoff series and could set their rotation. I’d start Braxton Ashcraft over Paul Skenes. And that’s not at all crazy.

[neal @nea1__]

LeBron went to eight straight finals and it was just normal

[Mark Madden @MarkMaddenX]

Skenes’ ERA is at 3.
If the Pirates lose, they’ll be 6-5 in games he starts.
They need better from him.

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@ThePoniExpress It was always ‘28

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@jaffa2828 @MarkMaddenX Mark normally talks reason. Rodgers delays any development. Not like they will win Super Bowl with him. Better chance he hurts himself

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@MarkMaddenX I meant this era. Your original remark is turn the page. That means from this era. My point is the 4 cup runs were great but they have not performed well those other years where they were a favorite almost every series.

[playmaka25 @playmaka25]

@MarkMaddenX Take away the 4 cup years they are 5-13 in the other playoff series. Were they underdog in any of those? A lot of disappointing playoff performances.