Mark Frommage

@talkSPORT Alexi said he would love soccer to be free for kids but who is going to pay for it. If you can figure it out, go for it. Horrible and dishonest reporting

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@MenInBlazers Obviously

SHOULD ENGLAND'S GOAL HAVE BEEN RULED OUT? 👀

@TheBolivianYank Horse is out of the barn. MLS owns & controls youth soccer. They’ll never willingly give up that power

Hope nails it. There’s not enough developmental academies to cover our whole country. It’s laughable to think MLS can do it. This is why we need to take away their division one status and open up the pyramid so teams can develop around the country without MLS bottlenecking our first division status. If you let teams start from the bottom an option to make it to the first division through merit, do you know how many teams would organically develop across the country to become a “Wrexham” USA??? It’s the American dream story waiting to happen….

@usmntonly I’ll translate Craig’s words. ‘I want to be in good graces with Pulisic and USMNT so I’ll be super nice after a shocking performance for the first time ever’

ESPN’s Craig Burley has come to the defense of USMNT forward Christian Pulisic and blasts some of the pundits and critics who are making him out to be the scapegoat following the United States' World Cup Round of 16 defeat to Belgium 🎙️🇺🇸 “It seems to me it's almost a personal attack on an individual rather than an analysis of the football that's gone before.” “It’s people from FOX. It's the same people that when Flo Balogun was told he could play, they were on that network, and they embarrassed the hell out of themselves for about half an hour. It’s embarrassing.” “They all danced around the fact that it was wrong, and said, this is the greatest decision in the history of U.S. sports, Flo Balogun's going to play. That's how embarrassing these people are. They have no shame.” “You're criticizing a player for not carrying a team, no further than you yourself never carried a team.” “Look, do I think he's perfect? No. But I'll tell you one thing about Christian Pulisic, and going back to [Landon] Donovan and one or two others, at least he's had the stomach to go to Europe over a long, long period of time and forge out a pretty good career for himself at Dortmund, at Chelsea, at Milan.” “And listen, they can analyze games all they want. I don't care. That's their job. But here, I think this is personal. It's a real personal attack on this young man.”

@usmntaut Do you think Poch overachieved, underachieved or did about what was expected, given the talent level on the team?

Another MLS shill in the media wants Poch out so they can hire another mediocre MLS coach. Who’s surprised?

@AlexiLalas It’s criminal. Women don’t deserve a dime more than they make & shouldn’t take from the men because they complained about it. USSF and the men caved b/c they didn’t want to be perceived negatively. I’m sure women would do the same if the roles were reversed 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Because they negotiated for it and got it.

@KYOTO_SSS @StephenChaconas @sinatraswinery @AlexiLalas @dpshow @KevinFrazier Other countries have A LOT more pro clubs per youth soccer player so it isn’t as spread out. Pro clubs will not be able to come close to financing this dream. It would be amazing tho

@StephenChaconas @sinatraswinery @AlexiLalas @dpshow @KevinFrazier So why not have teams set up youth academies and stuff so it's not pay to play, literally this is only a American problem

"You are part of the problem!" – @KevinFrazier doesn't hold back on Alexi Lalas and U.S. Soccer 😳

@wooden_files @golz_tv Let’s say everything said is true. Is LD wrong about how Christian played this WC, especially last game?

@MarkFrommage @golz_tv Landon has zero big club experience while Christian has Dortmund, Chelsea and Milan Landon was the “golden boy” before Christian showed up and he has been salty ever since

“It’s interesting to see one guy speaking. If we played overseas, he was injured, but then in MLS, he played two days later.” 😳 Former USMNT midfielder Jermaine Jones has come to Christian Pulisic’s defense, and hits out at former players criticizing him. Jones was speaking on ESPN FC about the fallout in the U.S. following Pulisic’s exit from the Belgium match. “I played with Christian, and I always said that Christian can be the best player America has had in football, in soccer,” Jones began. “That's clear. I played with him, I see his quality, and everybody sees his quality. “But I know too that Christian is not somebody who is, when he's injured, he says straight away, ‘Oh, I'm out.’ “He wants to play if he can play. So I'm not a fan of it when you see people who retired working now on networks or working with their own podcast going against people. “And that's nothing to do with the game. Because in that game where you lose against Belgium, [Sergiño] Dest made a mistake, Tim [Ream] made a mistake. [Matt] Freese made a mistake. “But we hear nothing about these three players. It's just Christian. “He's the face, yes. But in general, the whole team has to be good. And that's why I say, we live in a football world in the landscape in America where if you criticize, especially if you criticize other people, they get angry, they feel like, ‘Oh, you are attacking me personally.’ “That’s why you just attack Christian, because he's right now the biggest face. He's played in Italy, he's played in Chelsea. “But that has nothing do with football, because if you look at the football side, what he did already since his young age till now, for this country, is a lot. “I don't understand, because people are attacking him for exactly the same stuff. When they say, ‘Oh, he's going out because of injury, or he's doing this, or he's not coming to the game.’ “I was there where other players did the same. I saw it. So I just listen to it and think it’s interesting to see one guy speaking. If we played overseas, he was injured, but then in MLS, he played two days later. “So there's different stories on everything, and I think they should just focus on the game. “Yes, you can criticize if he played bad. But then you have to criticize everybody for this game against Belgium.”

@HenryBushnell Or… it’s a sign of growth that so many people are talking about it. Any press is good press

Tough to overstate the whiplash of past week for USMNT fans. Went from "unforgettable run, we'll talk about this forever" to "big scandal, classic American arrogance, worst WC result in two decades, generational letdown, star player scapegoated, youth system broken" So damaging

@dpshow Back to Alexi’s question, ‘We all would like youth soccer to be free. Who is going to pay for it?’

"You have to leave the country, it feels like, to be successful." – DP on U.S. Soccer and Kevin Frazier's comments

@ManagerTactical Pretty sure Spain bosses most teams, skippy

Spain 🇪🇸 is now showing the World how bad Belgium 🇧🇪 actually is… they’re bossing them around. Man… the USMNT 🇺🇸 really fumbled this one.

@SoniaBaschez Or, the guy who has a massive ego and is all over the commercial had a complete shocker in the biggest game of USMNT history & people are calling it like it is. Very talented, not an alpha & the moment was too big for him

Now we know that the Christian Pulisic pile-on is a coordinated media effort from Pochettino and everyone that believes in his vision for the USMNT He wants to break the power hold that Pulisic and his team has and I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s contingent on him staying on

@herculezg My pt is USSF/Trump, as any federation/politician, has right to support players & ask questions. It’s up to FIFA to take calls or not, to suspend or not. Again, you know all of this

@herculezg Stop being a drama queen. US Soccer/Trump should have challenged. It’s FIFA’s decision. The game was decided by players on the field, not decisions by FIFA. You know this so stop acting like you don’t

Red Card was never overturned, and FIFA never admitted there was a mistake by the referees. They even fined Balogun $40K. They just ‘suspended’ the suspension. He's on probation. An embarrassing way of handling the situation that has opened up Pandora’s box.

@golz_tv Absolute nonsense from Burley. Pulisic is a big talent, has shown he can dominate games for club & country. However, if you do documentaries & lead commercials then have a shocker in most important USA game ever, criticism is warranted. Is Burley his agent?

“I think this is personal. It's a real personal attack on this young man.” Scottish legend and former Chelsea midfielder Craig Burley has come to USMNT star Christian Pulisic’s defense and hits out at pundits from FOX Sports. 😳 “I don't like it,” Burley said on ESPN FC about Pulisic’s critics. “I get it, he's had a tough tournament because he started well, got injured, hasn't really found his flow again, ends the tournament the way he pretty much started and got injured. “But the pile-on, the pile-on to an individual, is way over the top. “It's like, if Christian Pulisic had a great tournament, the U.S. would have gone all the way. That's kind of how the talk is. “And I get it, he has a responsibility, and he didn't come into this tournament to try and be under par or play badly. “But to me, if I was Christian Pulisic, I would be big-time annoyed. In fact, if I was Christian Pulisic, I think I'd be digging some of these people out, personally. “Because it seems to me it's almost a personal attack on an individual rather than an analysis of the football that's gone before. “Because if it's an analysis of the football, you could go through pretty much the whole team and say, well, he had a bad game, he had a bad game, the goalkeeper made a mistake, you saw Sergiño Dest had a terrible game, letting balls bounce in the box, all that sort of stuff. “But it seems that he has been painted up there as the poster boy, and now that some of them, who should know better by the way, some of them, because they've been in that position, want to kill him. They're absolutely killing him. “It’s people from FOX. It's the same people that when Flo Balogun was told he could play, they were on that network, and they embarrassed the hell out of themselves for about half an hour. “They all danced around the fact that it was wrong, and said, this is the greatest decision in the history of U.S. sports, Flo Balogun's going to play. That's how embarrassing these people are. They have no shame. “You're criticizing a player for not carrying a team, no further than you yourself never carried a team. “You know, it’s not like some of these past players got to the semifinal or whatever and they said, well, he had a disrupted tournament. “Look, do I think he's perfect? No. But I'll tell you one thing about Christian Pulisic, and going back to [Landon] Donovan and one or two others, at least he's had the stomach to go to Europe over a long, long period of time and forge out a pretty good career for himself at Dortmund, at Chelsea, at Milan. “He’s gone over there for a long period of time and he has produced some very good performances. “Some of this lot sitting on their cozy sofas, they can't say that. Yeah, they can talk about what they did in MLS, they can talk about what they did now and again with the national team, but they didn't have the stomach, some of them, to go over there and train your butt off and play at elite level for years at a time. “They dipped their toe in the water and they jumped back over the pond. But yeah, they want to sit here and kill him. “And listen, they can analyze games all they want. I don't care. That's their job. But here, I think this is personal. It's a real personal attack on this young man.”

@poulomib22 Zlatan is a douche

There have been so many funny moments with the Fox broadcast crew for the World Cup, but this is a top 3 moment easily between Zlatan calling out his beef with Alexi to singing Pump it Up

@tombogert I hope Poch stays and is able to dismantle the diabolical and delusional attitudes of this group of players. I’d bring them in, ask their opinion of what happened vs Belgium. If they give any sense of ‘style of play’ instead of we let go of the rope, I’d never bring them back

🇺🇸 From the inside read of the USMNT World Cup campaign... which really started when Mauricio Pochettino took over and found some culture shock: “The situation was worse than we really believed,” Pochettino said last month. Ahead of their first training camp in Austin, Texas, that October, he and his staff expected to meet players who “would be so desperate to help (and) come to the national team.” Instead, “we received a big punch,” he recalled. They felt they were the only ones excited for the World Cup to start. Christian Pulisic, the team’s star, left that camp early to return to AC Milan, a decision that was described as “load management” and roundly criticized by U.S. national team veterans, including Tim Howard and Alexi Lalas. Pochettino went along with that plan publicly, but it was symptomatic of dynamics that had to be fixed. He encountered players who had too much power, who dictated time off, and who sometimes used it for golf outings or meals with friends. Pochettino felt he had to strip away that power. The teardown was, at times, tumultuous. A March 2025 window, which culminated with losses to Panama and Canada, “was painful,” he’d later say. “But it was necessary … for the players to realize that (doing things) this way, it is impossible to arrive in a good condition for the World Cup.” A big read, with @PaulTenorio and @HenryBushnell nytimes.com/athletic/74291…

@3four3 @g_rockets Maybe, just maybe, they have good intentions and disagree. Make your case rather than name call

@g_rockets The vile, corrupt, scumbags in the media are the problem. Especially those masquerading as "journalists".

Cherundolo for the US U23s There you go. As predicted before the World Cup, they're now trying to stuff an MLS lapdog down your throat.

@3four3 Only chance for an open system is a new and competing system to MLS, promote the hell out of it and poach top players. MLS owners have invested billions & cannot lose their position in the top league, no matter how poor they play. It would only happen over their cold dead hands.

"Leagues" don't go under in an open free market (aka pro/rel). Clubs are the ones that could fail, although it's relatively rare. "Fail" as in, they disappear. Gone. No longer exist. No re-incarnation, nothing. Yes, rare - don't be reactionary with your [MLS] indoctrination and ignorant on this point. And if a club fails, like any business in every sector of an economy, for whatever reason, that's perfectly fine. Another will take its place. And if it's difficult for a particular city to "sustain" a club at a particular level, also totally fine. Not every city or province in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, France, etc ... has a *top club. Nor does every city or state in the US have to have one. Most all cities in every country in the world don't. That's fine! The market is the market. By the way, Maine (which this person's post references below), has a club Portland Hearts of Pine, which has a reported average attendance on the order of 6,000. And that's in a closed ecosystem! A closed ecosystem, where there is NO significant incentive to pump far greater capital into the club since there is ZERO hope of meriting your way up. Without an open ecosystem, you don't know how much bigger that club can get. Or for that matter, what other clubs and investors would pop up there - or anywhere across the country. Every time your mind goes straight to talking points as to why an open ecosystem in the US "won't work" or "might not work", check yourself. It's a signal you've been brainwashed. x.com/BallzSoccer/st…