Madridistas All Over Copa And Euros Collide While Colombians Dominate - The Other Teams Thread

Probably written in their contracts since the Barca days.

 

Prob offering him twice what we can offer him in salary, if the prices were the same.

 

Not a single World Class player in that shitshow of a team

 

Ok, guess I wasn't clear. When I wrote MLS in general is basically "Messi & Friends" I was referring to the fact that the entire league revolves around Messi. Not just Inter Miami.

 

Borussia Dortmund are pushing to sign Jobe Bellingham (19/) IMMEDIATELY - they want him available already for the FIFA Club World Cup.

No agreement with the player yet. #BVB are respecting that Jobe has a crucial match with Sunderland on Sunday vs Sheffield. But Dortmund are preparing an offer and plan to submit it after Saturday.

BVB don’t feel they are in pole position but still pushing hard. Price tag: €25-30m. @SkySportDE

⚫️🟡 Borussia Dortmund are pushing to sign Jobe Bellingham (19/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿) IMMEDIATELY - they want him available already for the FIFA Club World Cup.

No agreement with the player yet. #BVB are respecting that Jobe has a crucial match with Sunderland on Sunday vs Sheffield. But Dortmund…

— Patrick Berger (@berger_pj) May 19, 2025

 

I think Jobe should make the move.

 

Looks like Wirtz rejected City and their PR through the likes of Romano claiming City backed out because the deal is too expensive.

 

Lol nothing is "too expensive" for them. He's going to Bayern. We all know it.

 

What do you think of the rumors that Mourinho would take over Portugal national team?

 

Sure, doesn't make them any better.... I hope they get destroyed in comical fashion in the CWC

 

Seen quite a bit of him over the last 1-2 seasons and he isn't close to where Jude was. This feels a move underpinned by his surname. If he was Jobe Smith, Dortmund and many others would have no interest. Hope I am wrong and he has great success though.

 

I don't think anyone thinks he's the level of Jude at the same age. But he has 100+ appearance at 19 in the Championship, and his metrics are very good. He's exactly the type of player Dortmund go after, regardless of his name.

 

Yea. Jobe not in the league of Jude talentwise. I am rooting for him to have a good career like Thorgan Hazard had.

 

Szczesny's son does a SPECTACULAR bicycle kick and his father stops the ball and doesn't let it go in.

📹‼️ ¡Este es el vídeo del que está hablando Sique Rodríguez en el #CarruselCanalla!

🤣🧤 El hijo de Szczesny hace una chilena ESPECTACULAR y su padre para el balón y no le deja que entrepic.twitter.com/JQPj7sp7Ex

— Carrusel Deportivo (@carrusel) May 18, 2025

 

Miami (Messi &FriendsFC) isn’t good for the game here. The Apple TV deal handicaps the league exposure as most people don’t have it and are not going to pay 14.99 a month on top of the other subscriptions they already have.

The money doesn’t go far either. Here’s a good breakdown, where the spend/player in the MLS is still far below European leagues.

https://www.americansocceranalysis....rs will get 12.5% of,time the deal was struck.


Messi is just a sugar high that will fade as soon as he leaves to Argentina and a bunch of fair weather “fans” will tossing out those pink kits to the rubbish bin.

The MLS has bigger issues to grow successfully but those will never get solved. It will always be battling the NHL for 4th in terms of popularity. Globally it will always be known as “The burger league”

 

Nice article by Sid Lowe about Villarreal and Marcelino.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...-villarreal-takes-village-to-champions-league

 

Agree, until you wrote "battling NHL for 4th". MLS is light years behind the NHL in popularity.

 

The kids who are watching Messi live are already playing, as they have the means to do so.

The main problem is our youth soccer is a pay to play system. This foundational problem is what holds the country back as far as growth for the sport, ie our leagues, players and US National Team.

Even the MLS academies still charge the players believe it or not.

There is a running joke that if you add the word “elite” to your club name you can charge extra.

 

Everyone hating on my hometown club

I do share the gripe with regards to the Apple TV deal. It's ridiculous that locals can watch the Dolphins, Heat, Marlins, Panthers for free but they have to pay Apple TV + MLS Season Pass to watch a team in their backyard. I get it for the rest of the country, but the fact the locals have to go through two paywalls is nuts.

But with regards to the results, Inter Miami had a great season last year but had a piss poor offseason weakening both the midfield and backline. It's no surprise they're leaking goals right now. Reminds me of a club in Spain

 

Probably, I didn’t check the rankings that come out every year.

College football is ahead of both NBA and MLB so it shows how popular American football is.