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[zeroregret]

Pog

That should be enough to see Soton at Wembley in a few weeks

I'd like to see the same thing but it looks like it isn't over yet

 

[Black Lotus]

p.s. ter stegen woulda been scored on...

 

[jape]

 
p.s. ter stegen woulda been scored on...

put some respek on my my mans name bruh

 

[Black Lotus]

 
put some respek on my my mans name bruh

 

[Black Lotus]

el pistolero!!!

 

[Black Lotus]

Game is lit man

 

[Black Lotus]

5 - 2 

 

[jape]

rampant

 

[vtotheinay]

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[jape]

we are hitting our stride at great time...sucks busquets and iniesta are injured but i think the experience for the kids will strengthen us in the end and help us push for the treble

vidal 

gomes 

suarez 

turan 

all are contributing 

 

[Black Lotus]

 
we are hitting our stride at great time...sucks busquets and iniesta are injured but i think the experience for the kids will strengthen us in the end and help us push for the treble

vidal 

gomes 

suarez 

turan 

all are contributing 

yea we looking good man

 

[PRIME]

We got these fools feb 14th

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[rck3sactown]

I never understood the point of a draft in the MLS

gives the non affiliated academy players, specifically college players, a shot is all.

 

[northoaklandfc]

I haven't looked into this in forever

so I'm wrong then.

But yea that's what I meant by modifying the draft, so that you can keep your own players.

Still don't understand then why it seems like these clubs neglect the inner city then.

There's also no need to get fired up to the point you gotta drop the not offending disclaimer. Its interesting and I appreciate the info, but I wouldn't get offended about not knowing updates on the MLS

. It's like if I said the WNBA needed a rule change and someone tells me they changed it a while back. It's good info and my bad, but I have no reason to get offended.

Do these clubs do enough work trying to find and develop talent in the inner city? As a New Yorker, I've never heard of the NYRB having anything in the boroughs. I.e. both scouting and a complex of fields for them to play on.

Trust me I'm not fired up at all man, what you said was complete nonsense. I just wasn't trying to come off as confrontational. People often get offended when they're told they don't know what they're talking about. 

We're not talking about some arbitrary WNBA rule change. We're talking about the very foundation upon  which the league in its modern era is built on.  If you didn't know you didn't know, but there's no way to frame a claim that extreme and that ignorant as some minor oversight. 

NYRB isn't based in the 5 boroughs and never has been. The club has always been based in New Jersey, ever since it's inception as the New York/New Jersey Metro stars. The club's stadium, training grounds, and academy are all based in NJ in Essex and Hudson counties. 

That said, yes NYRB absolutely attracts talent within the five boroughs, though now NYCFC which is actually based in NY has a growing presence and seems to be very committed to youth development at both the academy and grass roots level. 

 

It's not as simple as 1 + 1 = 2.

Just because the framework for the system was implemented in 2008, doesn't mean you instantly get stars performing in world class leagues ten years later.  In the scope of youth development at the national scale, a decade is most certainly an instant.  Developing players literally takes time. In a fully functioning youth development system, we're talking more or less 10 years from the time a player begins training at 8/9 years old, to the time they're 18 - 20 and the player might be good enough sign as a professional - in most cases we're talking an additional 5 years after that before a player begins to enter his prime, the time when a player is most likely to be making an impact in a top league, if we're being realistic. 

U.S. academy system was implemented in 2008 but only in the last 3 - 4 years has it really even begun to come close to representing what a fully functioning youth development system might look like in this country. It used to be limited to just U16 and U18 age groups. In the last 5 years its expanded to include the U12 - U18 age groups.  The number of U.S. clubs with sanctioned academies has grown from 64 in '08 to 150+ today. 

To put things in perspective, if we're talking about where we should be when it comes to tangible results from the academies, we can really only look at players born in the year 2000 and later.  Christian Pulisic is born in 1998 and is a product of the U.S. academy system. But when he was 12yo, there was no academy system for talented player of his age.  A few years ago a player like Pulisic had to wait until he was a teenager before he could be exposed to the academy system. In 2017 that's no longer the case.

The current crop of 19 - 23yo American players really aren't representative of the progress the academy system has made. We'll get a better feel for tangible results as guys in Pulisic's age range like Haji Wright and Joshua Perez to mature and begin to enter their early 20's but again, even they're too old to truly be indicative of where the academy is at right now or where its headed in the future.

Be patient and wait for current 14 - 18 year old American players to develop. American representation in Europe's top leagues will continue to grow in the next 5 years. 

 

[jape]

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho said his side "didn't lose" despite being beaten 2-1 by Hull City at the KCOM in the EFL Cup semifinals

mou taking notes from trump i see... 

 

[QU!K]

Alternative facts

 

[evolution fight]

View media item 2313151The squad showing love and support to mi gente

 

[PRIME]

Alternative facts

 

[eiddyfouw]

Gotta admit, United away fans are something special. 

oh you gotta admit?
that must've been hard for you being a united fan and all

I wrote this while sipping at the crib watching the game.

Sue me for my choice of words then

 

[Beans]

don't pay him any mind.. no one else seems to here

 

[jape]

The squad showing love and support to mi gente

bueno. 

united stans still in they feeling i see. sawft 

 

[SadBoi]

Niang to Watford.

Always happy to see Serie A players joining the Prem for some reason. Watford is filled with them (Coach).

 

[jape]

damnnit we have to play atletico in the semis  

all they do is just kick the **** out of our players 

we really don't need to be going through such a physical tie in the middle of our campaign

 

[josh4523]

Dortmund blessings to my Latinos in here and all our other brothers and sisters in here

...I'm an excite for that match up. Atletico's disruption of the norm is appreciated

 

[mastamind89]

Wenger to serve a 4 match ban
I hope Niang flourishes. I wonder what happened, I know he was getting some good minutes. Well, recently it didn't seem as much. Watford also have Success, I want to see both of them do well.


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@NatsAbroad Stuttgart manager Hannes Wolf says Julian Green could start against St. Pauli on Sunday. Also reveals he's had a nagging muscle injury.

Bundesliga's economic strength keeps growing

BERLIN – The Bundesliga's economic strength keeps on growing.

The 18 teams in Germany's top division broke the 3 billion euro mark in revenue for the first time last season. Total revenue for 2015-16 was 3.24 billion euros ($3.48 billion), up 23.7 percent on the season before, with 13 of those clubs each posting more than 100 million euros ($107 million).

"That's a pretty good number," said Bundesliga chief executive Christian Seifert, who presented the annual Bundesliga report in Frankfurt on Thursday.

"In relation to the money the Bundesliga generated, we are very satisfied with the performance in Germany (but) we are not yet satisfied with the performance on a European level," Seifert said of the 12th straight season of record turnover.

Seifert said in a telephone interview that "we're still the number two league turnover wise" behind the English Premier League, adding that "we are the number six in terms of turnover of all professional sports leagues in the world."

Having young and talented players — the next big stars — was key to the league's attractiveness, Seifert said, while established foreign players like Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez of Mexico, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon and Charles Aranguiz of Chile were boosting its appeal abroad.

Germany's second division is also doing well, posting revenue of 608.3 million euros ($653.6 million), up 20.6 percent from the previous season.

The 18 top division clubs made 206.2 million euros in profit, the league's best-ever result. Like the season before, 34 of the 36 clubs in both divisions were profitable.

The figures show that Bundesliga clubs spend less than one third of revenue on salaries — half the average across the major European leagues.

There was only a small increase in match-day revenue from ticket sales as clubs opt to keep prices low. Seifert gave the example of Borussia Dortmund, which has sellout crowds of more than 80,000 for Bundesliga games at Westfalenstadion.

"Of course Borussia Dortmund could increase the price of their tickets but they don't do it. Although we have this policy with our clubs, we were still able to gain over 3 billion euros overall," he said.

German clubs also profited indirectly from the Premier League's new TV deal, leading to inflated transfer fees.

Transfer income was up some 300 million euros on the year before with 532 million euros accounting for more than 16 percent of revenue. Five transfers alone accounted for more than 180 million euros.

"A really impressive number," Seifert said. "We cannot ignore transfer income any more."

Powerhouse Bayern Munich overshadows the rest of the league with a record turnover of 627 million euros in 2015-16, well ahead of Dortmund on almost 377 million. Darmstadt was the smallest in the top flight with turnover of 41.5 million euros.

Bayern's dominance — the club is on course to win an unprecedented fifth straight Bundesliga — is not yet a worry for the league, despite concerns from abroad that it may be getting uncompetitive.

"From today's perspective, it's not yet a problem because in Borussia Dortmund we have a very interesting club, high-profile, that plays fascinating football in a great atmosphere," Seifert said.

"If Bayern Munich wins the title 10 or 15 times in a row then it will become a problem but we are not yet in this situation. I think that all other Bundesliga clubs know that they will be able to compete with Bayern Munich, but this is not something the league can influence directly. We can see that there's a need to invest money in a good way."