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Always like to look back at previous youth tournaments and see how different players turned out.

2007 U-17 World Cup:

🥇 Toni Kroos 🇩🇪 One of the best midfielders in Europe, WC + CL winner

🥈 Macauley Christantus 🇳🇬 Benchwarmer in Iran Pro League

🥉 Bojan 🇪🇸 Barça➡️Stoke➡️MLS
Top goalscorers in the 2005 U-20 World Cup:

🥇Lionel Messi 🇦🇷 One of the greatest in the history of sport.

🥈Fernando Llorente 🇪🇸 Well respected target man who’s played for Spain, Juve, Spurs etc.

🥈Oleksandr Aliev 🇺🇦 Been playing amateur football in Ukraine since 2016.
This is especially the case for African players. They just don’t have anywhere near the amount of opportunities as European or South American players, and they can more or less disappear after a few years due to a lack of chances.
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On paper alone, I don’t think any club in Europe added more quality to their squad than Real Madrid this summer: Eden Hazard, Éder Militão, Luka Jović, Takefusa Kubo, Rodrygo, Ferland Mendy is one hell of a mercato.

That doesn’t necessarily mean they improved the most, though.
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Seriously? You’re frustrated with Khedira for not wanting to leave for a less prestigious club that would offer a significantly lower wage?
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Frenkie de Jong will earn €16 million a year at Barcelona, Matthijs de Ligt will earn €14 million a year at Juventus, yet apparently De Ligt chose money, while Frenkie chose to “fulfill his dreams.”
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It had nothing to do with the fact that De Ligt’s chances of starting at Juventus were better than at Barça.

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