LFC Portland @LFCPortland

Representing LFC Supporters in the Portland Oregon area. We watch all @LFC matches at Kells Brewery Rosecityreds.com Portland, OR Joined October 2010

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Gakpo Era 🇳🇱 @Szobo_baller

3 weeks ago

Jurgen Klopp 🗣️" Today we have witnessed a game where officials are willing to do anything for one side to win , ruling out that Egypt goal was injustice!"

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Kyle Ayers @kyleayers

3 weeks ago

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

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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.

dandelion georgism 🔰🏗 @DandyGeorgism

3 weeks ago

“And every four years when the World Cup comes around, we will say that we’d dominate if we had a stronger youth program.” “And will we develop a stronger youth program?” “We will not.”

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LFC Portland @LFCPortland

a month ago

@FreddyLA7 @JJWatt @JJWatt to the rescue

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Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano

a year ago

🚨🔴 Liverpool are prepared to go big for Alexander Isak after Luis Diaz sale done. Isak, keen on the move and not even in talks with Saudi clubs. Only Liverpool. Up to Newcastle now, with #LFC waiting but ready to enter strong with record proposal.

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Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers

3 years ago

🚨🚨 PGMOL RELEASE FULL AUDIO FROM VAR HUB RELATING TO LUIS DIAZ GOAL that was incorrectly disallowed in Spurs-Liverpool match 🚨 PGMOL acknowledge "significant human error" & goal should have been awarded. But that's quite clear from expletives at 1:18 & 1:56. Incredible.

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LFC Portland @LFCPortland

3 years ago

@ChrisRifer Peace out Yimmi ✌🏼

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The Redmen TV @TheRedmenTV

3 years ago

Kill 90-odd minutes of waiting for The Reds to return... Liverpool 4-0 Barcelona 😍 A miracle. x.com/lfc_redmen12/s…

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LFC Portland @LFCPortland

3 years ago

@MLSMoves I’ve been advocating for this for years. They manage to do this in Russia, Germany, Poland, etc. places that are cold AF

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Anfield Sector @AnfieldSector

3 years ago

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Liverpool FC @LFC

3 years ago

We have completed the signing of midfielder Ryan Gravenberch from Bayern Munich on a long-term contract, subject to a work permit. 🙌

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Liverpool FC @LFC

3 years ago

DARWINNN 😍 The moment Nunez secured all three points at St James' Park 👌 #NEWLIV

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LFC Portland @LFCPortland

3 years ago

Fucking joke indeed

Men in Blazers @MenInBlazers

3 years ago

VVD 🟥 Lip Reader Not Required 🤬

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LFC Portland @LFCPortland

3 years ago

Yay, we did a thing correctly #YNWA

Liverpool FC @LFC

3 years ago

Alexis Mac Allister will not serve a suspension after a successful appeal against the red card he received during Saturday’s victory over AFC Bournemouth.