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Who cares? It will be always the wealthier countries with the biggest financial packing and human resources. So, essentially more of the same. But football as a business doesn't operate that. Evolving here isn't about bringing a contender to the World cup, that is an absolute narrow minded way...

Absolutely, without a shade of doubt. Africa produce more and more from their domestic academies, their leagues are better. And you think players from Japan and Korea are product of European academies? What load of nonsense is that. You are arguing about something you have no clue about.

70M is a fair price to sell him. And on paper, it is easy to replace him than other players. However, Barca generally struggle with the idea of reinvesting, and it is why they keep their players to fault. Expectations will be selling Fermin and bringing Gyökeres for the same money, reality will...

Football in Africa, North Americas and Asia didn't evolve in the past 20+ years? That is some bs right there.

What are they playing for? They are out of the U20 WC anyway, actually, not even the African Cup of Nations.

Qatar had the best group stage of any NT tournament I've seen. 2018 was also fairly solid. Qatar was the only dogshit team and the tournament, and that was because they decided to take players from their clubs for months rather than letting them play competitively, if it wasn't for this stupid...

Fully deserve, congratulations

There is a legal shenanigans around the Varela transfer, they won't bring him before he is 18

He makes Fermin look like Hulk tbh, usually those guys needs to be elite talent to actually succeed with such limited physical presence.

Rodri?

Raphinha will play in the same position while Nico will be the first one from the bench, he will easily get 2.5K minutes if we continue to play the same number of games.

From what I've read, he is earning over 10M gross in Bilbao, and his wage demands from other clubs are around 15-18M which so far no one is willing to pay. Bilbao are doing well on sporting level too, arguably theor best spell in this century. He is staying close to family and getting paid...

Saw a post on reddit that yesterday G.Romero talked about his situation again. The first problem is his wage demands, which other sources previously said it is 15M (English sources said 18M) along an expensive BO. But in addition to that, Laporta was offended by the way Nico handled things...

This is why I said "insane progression ". Both went to City, massive mistake. Mastantuono going to Madrid isn't the smartest thing either. For example, Germany won the U17 WC and it doesn't seem any of their kids will make it big, Uruguay U20 seems already wasted, Brazil's hope for a no9...

Teams like Chile and Uruguay suffers from the greed of agents and clubs. Talents will move from their domestic league to the highest bidder, and that is usually in USA, Brazil, Argentina or gulf countries. And then they continue in treadmill of stagnation. When they could gave joined smaller...

Looking at this squad, I wonder what is the future of this team will look after next WC. I know they are missing many names, like Enzo and Mccallister, but other than their coach I feel they will be closer to the current level of teams like Germany, Italy and Dutch, rather than the Spanish &...

I think it will be Estevao or someone who didn't emerge yet. Mastantuono seems like the next Di Maria, which is great and everything, but not a guy to challenge for Ballon. Bright future ahead for most of them.

I was unlucky enough to watch several Brazilian league games, and I will be surprised if current generations are used to this type of football.

https://x.com/lamasiapolska/status/1930583173177434185 Regarding Cardoso: 5M RC only 2.7M are for Dinamo, the rest for the agent and the family. 5M add-ons based on first team appearances with Barca. He will stay a year or two in Dinamo's first team. Lawyers aren't done reviewing the...

Vivian is having a bad end for a strong season.