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Hey @grok how good can Adriano Jagusic of Slaven Belupo become ? Transfermarket just increased his transfer value to 850k (from 350k 3 months ago). What is the next club that will buy him and for how much ? Will he play for the Croatian Senior National Team one day ?

@DougieCritchley Jeremy Jacquet 55+5

Only Ilya Zabarnyi, Dean Huijsen, Leny Yoro, Josko Gvardiol, Wesley Fofana and Matthijs De Ligt have transfered for more than Van Hecke’s £52m fee amongst centre-backs in the last 5 seasons. I’d say it’s probably £10m too much for a player with 1 year left. But I really, really rate Van Hecke, I think he’d improve any Premier League side’s squad and the starting XI of nearly all of them. Good luck to him!

@markus_467887 @CroatiaFooty Budimir and Perisic.

@DFG456DFG789 @CroatiaFooty Who are the other 2?

🇭🇷🤔 Who will be Croatia's STAR player this World Cup? My pick:

@KSnetne It's probably just Canada "woke" PR. Give him a visa waiver with restrictions (stay in hotel, travel only to/from training/match) and it's solved (and in-line with US). Otherwise, if he's acquitted in the UK trial he could easily sue them for lost "opportunity/wages".

This comparison is dominating sports-law discussions right now because it perfectly highlights the rigid, complicated, and often frustrating world of border control during a multi-nation tournament. While the optics look like a glaring double standard on the surface, immigration experts point out that the two players face entirely different legal mechanisms under Canadian immigration law.

🚨 The US basically said: 'We know about the UK charges, but we need the TV ratings and the midfield battle against England in Boston, so sign here.' Meanwhile, Canadian immigration is acting like a strict boarding school principal who doesn't care if you're Thomas Partey or a regular tourist. You can't help but laugh at how two neighboring countries looked at the exact same passport and came to completely opposite conclusions.

@JasdeepR1 @fmeetsdata Ha! Amazing.

@DFG456DFG789 @fmeetsdata Funnily enough, AFCON 2023 did, and in that tournament they did well and made quarters.

The power of football 💙

@CroatiaFooty “English journalists, pundits from television, they underestimated Croatia tonight and that was a huge mistake. All these words from them we take, we were reading and we were saying 'ok, today we will see who will be tired'" Luka Modric, 2026 & 2018

Love the English media 😂 Underestimating Luka might be the stupidest thing to do nowadays. He's literally proven EVERYBODY wrong, at every point in his career. Young, prime, and even now. Some people just never learn...

@hbrooks_coach He can’t even drag Italy to a 48 team WC. Pass.

Out of interest, what is it in games like these that make people say “pay whatever it takes”? Or is it just the dopamine of a big potential transfer? Okay, two goals, one of them a beautiful strike, but you’re not signing tonali for his goals. So what does he do that makes people so excited?

@InvertTheWing He can’t even drag Italy to a WC lol.

@HolyMolySakura EQ = Emotional Intelligence. Involves 4 core skills: self-awareness (knowing what you feel), self-management (controlling impulses), social awareness (empathy), & relationship management (resolving conflict/communicating clearly). Punch ranks VERY high in all 4 core skills ;-)

@DFG456DFG789 What?? Hahaha... ☕

#punch IQ Analysis 🐾🐾🍧 Punch, a Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) born July 26, 2025 and now roughly 11 months old, has no human-style IQ score. Japanese macaques are among the most socially intelligent and fastest-learning primates. They are famous for cultural behaviors ,such as washing sweet potatoes and seasoning them in seawater 🏖️(ˆ˚ˆ✿) that spread through entire troops, as seen in the landmark Koshima studies. They excel at cooperative tasks, detecting unfair reward distribution, and rapidly mastering complex skills. When compared with human children, their performance in problem-solving, object permanence, and basic social cognition often aligns with the 2–3 year old range, with particular strengths in hierarchy learning, visual-spatial skills, and reading social cues. Punch himself shows impressive progress. After early rejection by his mother and initial isolation, he has successfully integrated into the troop. He now demonstrates strong social resilience — coolly deflecting threats, following the adult males to forage, playing energetically, and eating with the group. The “humanized” quality we see comes from his highly expressive face and relatable behaviors, which are characteristic of the species. Conclusion: By Japanese macaque standards, Punch’s cognitive abilities are excellent and likely above average.🐾🐾🐒❤❤ Have a great day. 🍧❤

@TheCroatian_ @CroatiaFooty @SashaGrey rated all 48 kits. Croatia home got a "S", her highest rating. Grey said "It's on the tip of my tongue...Croatia...a classic...a S...the holy grail...Nike put thought into this...this feels like football." twitch.tv/videos/2796921…

@TheCroatian_ Thank you for the bulletin board Gabby, Modric thanks you.

Gabriel Agbonlahor on Luka Modrić and Croatia ahead of the match against England: "I’m not being funny, fantastic player but there should be no issues in that midfield against Modrić. It’s fantastic he’s still playing, but you shouldn’t be fearing Modrić." "No offence to Luka Modrić, fantastic player. He was one of those players when he was at his peak you try and press him and he’s already popped it off, got a one-two, outside of the right boot passes, the goals he scored, fantastic player." "But let’s be honest, you should not be worried about Modrić. He’s 40 years old! Croatia haven’t really got those players that run in behind with pace. If Modrić was playing and he had Rashford and Gordon running in behind then I’d say ok, he’s still got that pass in him, but they’ve not really got that squad of players." "We should not be worried about Croatia, we really shouldn’t." [@talkSPORT]

@BouafifNour This sounds like a typical Croatia line-up with 5 CB/defenders and 5 CAM/10s playing in midfield and upfront.

I know this might sound harsh, but that was genuinely one of the biggest managerial disasterclasses I've ever seen. This man called up 4 wingers and 3 strikers, only to bench all of them and start the opening World Cup game with a 5-3-2 that he hadn't used even once during the friendlies. He benched all of his forwards and lined up with 5 defenders and 5 midfielders against Sweden. It gets worse. He played a defensive full-back who is basically a hybrid CB profile like Kounde for example and he played him as a wing-back, used our backup left-back, who arguably didn't even deserve a call-up, as a left centre-back, and after going 2-0 down by halftime, he didn't make a single substitution until the 72nd minute. And when the changes finally came, they somehow made even less sense. He brought on a central midfielder to play wing-back, and a left winger to play on the right, and then took off both of his defensive midfielders for an attacking midfielder and a striker. We literally finished the game with a double pivot made up of two number 10s. I'm serious when I say this is the kind of squad management you wouldn't even see in FIFA Career Mode. We've faced teams like England, Belgium, France, and Spain at World Cups before. We've always been underdogs. Yet somehow, our biggest defeat in World Cup history came against Sweden. That alone should tell you everything you need to know about how badly this game was handled. I know most of you probably don't care about Tunisia's tactical disasters, but I just needed to get this off my chest.

@InvertTheWing Sell tails get wrecked! Moronic use of capital. Just like the genius risking 300k for 6k profit that Morocco won’t win the WC.

Spain without Yamal. Mediocre, lethargic attack with zero dynamism.

What a goal that was... 🚀

@CroatiaFooty lol - maybe this is the problem? World Cup 2022 Serbian NT cheating scandal: Vlahovic rubbishes allegations It was reported in Serbia that Dusan Vlahovic had an affair with Predrag Rajkovic's wife and that Nemanja Gudelj had a relationship with Luka Jovic's partner.

🎙️ Dušan Tadić on Serbia’s missed opportunities at major tournaments: "I think we could have done better and got out of the group. If we had managed that, I believe we could have done a lot. For example, look at the Croats in Qatar. They scored fewer goals than us in the group, but they reached the semi-final. Okay, they didn't concede goals, but I think we were really just a little short of making a breakthrough. I'm sure we would have been dangerous if we had gone further and we could have done a lot."

@YVemula5063 @pu2022138 Punch’s status within the troop is only going to grow as these babies continue to follow/defer to him as they all age. He’s building up his entourage from the ground up. ❤️ 🤴 👊

@pu2022138 Punch with other monkeys 💥 Punch with babies 🥰🥰🥰

펀치 형아 뭐해? 🐒🤎