Talj

King of the pirates.

[Vez™ @Lordvez77]

So Pedro Neto's case was unprecedented...

Jorge Mendes was brought in by Chelsea to help serve as an emissary between Chelsea, Man City and the Enzo Fernández camp.

Mendes has been rumoured to push players to the Saudi League more often than not, especially when there are huge amounts of money to be made for his pockets.

All of a sudden, Al-Ittihad are interested in Pedro Neto...

I'm glad Chelsea slapped them with the £100m bill. #CFC

VEZ™

[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.

[Travis @usmnt_historian]

“tainted by accusations of favouritism”

[Talj @theCFTaljan]

@all90saltrock Stars by Hum

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $1.2 trillion that he's worth today.

Elon would still be the wealthiest man alive & every family in America would have universal childcare.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

They want you to forget. They don’t want you to see this.

Keep sharing this so we can’t forget what they did to us that day.

[Rebecca Aguilar (on Blue Sky & LinkedIn) @RebeccaAguilar]

Everyone COPY this video, share it far and wide. Paramount Skydance billionaire baby David Ellison can’t handle that Stephen Colbert is getting millions of views . @Youtube we will cancel our subscription as we did when we dumped @paramountplus.

[DividendBoomer @BoomerDivvies]

The US deficit is now $39 trillion dollars.
But the US population is also huge, 349,000,000 people.

So if they all paid $112 then the deficit would be paid off.

Why aren't they doing this??

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

There are more instances of United States Citizens being detained by ICE than there are of illegal immigrants voting in elections.

[I am kerubo🇰🇪 @KeruboAnyega315]

Paying taxes at this point feels like funding criminals

[Treason Stickers @treasonstickers]

The only logical explanation for Trump’s behavior is that he’s being blackmailed by Putin and Netanyahu for being a pedophile, which is exactly what we learned from the Mueller Report and Epstein files

[KENNY KO @KENNYKANCELLED]

Choosing WW3 instead of arresting the rich pedophiles was a wild choice.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

"Iran lured Jared Kushner & Steve Witkoff to peace talks, and then murdered them"

"Iran bombed an elementary school in Texas, murdering 160 school girls."

"Iran is waging a war of annihilation against New York City, whose residents will suffer from cancerous ailments for decades because the US bombed an oil refinery in NYC, turning NYC skyline into acid-oil-rain."

"Iran murdered Donald Trump"

"Iran murders 1,300 Americans in first week of war of aggression waged on the USA"

This is how the news looks like if you are from Iran.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Rising gas prices are causing a steep rise in consumer prices and will slow any future economic growth. It is a tax on all Americans.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

A year ago we were supposed to be getting $2,000 rebate checks, DOGE was going to find $2 trillion in waste to balance the budget, we were going to pay no income taxes because tariffs would pay for everything, gas & home electric bills would be cut in half, and no new wars.

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

Trump's shortsighted foreign policy is bringing us to the brink of war with Iran and allowing Iran to accelerate nuclear program—just to please Saudis and Netanyahu. This is not America first.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Twenty years ago we invaded Iraq. The war killed many innocent Iraqis and Americans. It destroyed the oldest Christian populations in the world. It cost over $1 trillion, and turned Iraq into a satellite of Iran. It was an unforced disaster, and I pray that we learn its lessons.

[Alex Ward @alexbward]

"The War Department will not be distracted by democracy building interventionism, undefined wars, regime change...We will instead put our nation's practical, concrete interests first." - Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth, Dec. 6, 2025

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

It is extremely wild work to take 10 billion dollars from Americans to launch a peace club and then launch an actual war 2 weeks later.