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@ThePalaceWay not a chance

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@MPringles676967 @Mikey_CPFC Mathis and mehmeti in my opinion

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@DeePalace_ he’s class. been unbelievable in the MLS this year and will soon break through to the US national team

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Clubs like Brighton and Crystal Palace can find talent in the lower ranks of the system or even around the world and develop them into unbelievable players to sell for double or triple what they originally paid for them

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A lot of talk about youth soccer in the US, this is easier said than done, but if the owners of the MLS clubs invested into more youth scouting around the country and development, they would realize they could make a profit off of home grown talent

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Look at clubs like Ajax, dortmund, Barcelona, Brighton (unfortunately), and Crystal Palace. With Ajax and Barcelona, they scout the entire country and even out of the country to find young talent and bring them through their ranks for profit

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People pointing to Cavan Sullivan for help will soon realize that Adri Mehmeti is the help we really need and are going to get

[Brett Kollmann @BrettKollmann]

On the bright side, in four years #he is coming to save us

[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.

[seak @seakerrs]

The MLS modeling their league to something similar like the Eredivisie would be a big stepping stone in the right direction for US Soccer

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@ManagerTactical We need to call Albert up to the September camp and get him involved with the team asap

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Darg how on earth are we going to keep ismaila sarr this summer

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@MIK3MCDANIEL @CraverJukes tide hoops and fb going to win it all

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seeing a player you’ve known about for years explode on the scene is a different kind of dopamine rush

[FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer]

Johan Manzambi powers it past the keeper to make it 2-0 Switzerland in Vancouver! 🇨🇭

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@Jiroknowsball @MIK3MCDANIEL never said the way arsenal plays defense is why they’re boring that was all you

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@Jiroknowsball @MIK3MCDANIEL if you want to classify how arsenal plays as just good defense then so be it

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@MIK3MCDANIEL And it’s fun to support an underdog and not a top team

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@MIK3MCDANIEL Palace is the biggest roller coaster it’s fun + we have Chris Richards

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