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@CommonSense503 "@MLSMoves I know you only started paying attention to the sport after playing FIFA a few years ago but forgive the league owners wanting to put some guard rails around super clubs considering the history of the sport in this country (ever heard of NASL)"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 17:22:18 UTC XXX followers, 1663 engagements

"@OHBairn @medium_gray @NobletStrength @MLSMoves The names don't stick. The casual soccer fans in America that glory hunt a big Euro club don't know these names but long time MLS fans will tell you the level of quality over the last XX years has increased impressively. Beckham's teammates had to have summer jobs ffs"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-16 20:10:36 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Blue_OrangeG8r @JayHrndz2 I see you left out Tillman. You didn't X months ago. Interesting. Maybe because ya know TILLMAN FUCKING PLAYS FOOTBALL AT HIS CLUB. You're making the argument that a single season defines a career comparison it's honestly so retarded I can't believe I'm reading it"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 18:31:01 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@shitpost314 @reformussoccer @ussoccer That's the problem: you and a handful of Americans are diehard fans that give a fuck. The reality of our soccer landscape is most fans are casuals that only really watch top European and USMNT matches and couldn't give a fuck about San Antonio FC vs. Portland Timbers"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-16 21:57:20 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@ConcacafEdgar Name location age employer. Thanks"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-08 17:36:27 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@TaylorTwellman MLS sux salary cap rules are antiquated and prohibit growth of the league - US based Real Madrid supporters WHY IS MLS LETTING MIAMI SKIRT THE RULES - also US based Real Madrid supporters (that constantly hate on MLS)"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 16:59:24 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@Blue_OrangeG8r @JayHrndz2 I'm sorry what Adams was sold for 20m to Leeds and was at least a spot starter after Marsch left RBL. Reyna's agent is twerking for clubs WELL below EPL level he'll likely leave on a free to a middling club in Eredivisie or MLS and barely played while Adams had 2000 EPL mins"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 17:49:49 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@OHBairn @medium_gray @NobletStrength @MLSMoves Exactly. MLS isn't going to go from Championship level to Serie A level overnight or by just throwing absurd money at players (see TFC). We've learned the NASL lesson. Slow steady youth development grow in transfer dealings be a good jumping point that doesn't hold talent"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-16 20:11:47 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Blue_OrangeG8r @JayHrndz2 Dude you are well and truly a fucking retard. Seriously you're so fucking stupid I can't even fathom someone is actually making this argument. Your career is not defined by one or two seasons a half decade ago that went well. It's the width and breadth of your career"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 17:56:02 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@VoxProMLS As much as it pains me Evander should be the face of MLS for real soccer fans. A guy my Timbers snagged for a 10m transfer fee as a top Danish league player. XX years ago Evander would be playing for some mid-table Bundesliga club at this point of his career. Today MLS"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 19:46:44 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@Blue_OrangeG8r @jopan89 @JayHrndz2 Not ONCE have I said his career is over and he doesn't have it. But the market is quite clearly telling you what the reality is. Gio's level is a super cheap transfer to Parma at best. Tillman's level is a record transfer to a top Bundi side. Adams level is a 20m+ EPL"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 22:23:08 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Blue_OrangeG8r @jopan89 @JayHrndz2 I think the differentiator here is that European clubs value club performances far more than national team. TIllman was slowly integrated into USMNT and until this GC rarely was given the keys. Reyna and Puli were basically handed the team when GGG joined"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 22:36:22 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@shitpost314 @reformussoccer @ussoccer @hearts_sc I look at it like this: San Diego Loyal was unpopular and MLS gave their ownership every opportunity to get the MLS spot. They couldn't pull it off. Now we have a popular club ownership that spends on players and a truly world class academy facility in development"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 17:16:22 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@GuntherEagleman Always remember Donald J. Trump was friends with Epstein for XX years. He partied with him flew on his plane knew he liked young women all while DJT also owned a teenage beauty pageant. It was only after a sour business deal that their friendship ended. ALWAYS REMEMBER"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-18 17:00:48 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@PolAdIntel14 @DouglasRitchey @USMNT_2026 Agreed on huge mistake reupping but the idea that he was a bad choice to begin with looking at our current results and discourse around the National Team is nothing short of laughable. His first cycle has aged like fine wine he did very well with a less mature pool"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-15 20:35:37 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Blue_OrangeG8r @jopan89 @JayHrndz2 Tillman has been incredibly good at PSV. That quality has consistently shown to translate into the next layer of European club football. Tillman is a MUCH better club player than Reyna is and at the time of Puli's transfer CP as well in terms of value. Also age"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 22:37:23 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@AlamoCitySC I'm largely agreeing with the details but the overall face value does tend to seem like the big city clubs get support for side stepping rules from MLS FO whereas it's by the book with mid/small market. TLDR I don't even really care if they did do that"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 22:25:25 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@shitpost314 @MarioALNG @reformussoccer @ussoccer and this again is my point. Instead of making proclamations about USL Pro/Rel (which I don't believe will actually happen this decade) and taking D1 sanctioning from MLS perhaps they should drive proper investment in the league to make MLS come to the table on Pro/Rel"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 16:48:25 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Celoer0 @Jadentheman1 @ManagerTactical Actual rumors pushed by agent: PSV Ajax MLS. Gio stans on X: Only thing holding him back from La Liga move is Dortmund's willingness. Dude at this point Dortmund would sell him for 5m fee plus sell on to offload his wages. La Liga clubs don't want him"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 19:40:54 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@OHBairn @medium_gray @MLSMoves It's not about who you rate. You're making assertions those assertions aren't accurate and I've given you detailed refutation. Miami has a plan. X. Milk Messi & Friends X. Fill out roster as much as MLS rules apply with young players X. Anchor around WC26 and stadium hype"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-16 20:01:01 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Kat_A_Tonic Understand your frustration but your blame is more on Atleti and Miami for working the deal out as a "loan" for the first year. This isn't a case of MLS letting Miami buydown a DP with TAM against the rules but a creative transfer to side step them entirely. I'm not mad"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 19:42:50 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@ManagerTactical Define Europe. He's agent has twerked for the top clubs in small leagues and there have been ZERO credible reports any of the PSVs and Sporting's of the world are looking at him. I doubt he wants to drop off to 600k/year to play for a small Eredivisie side. so MLS it is"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-15 20:03:54 UTC XXX followers, 1796 engagements

"@JayHrndz2 @Blue_OrangeG8r Adams played over 2000 minutes at Leeds and flopped so hard he got transferred for 20m+ to another EPL team that he's a locked in starter for when healthy. Seriously what the fuck are you retards talking about Is this real life I shouldn't be but I'm shocked"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 17:52:27 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@shitpost314 @MarioALNG @reformussoccer @ussoccer Current state can you actually imagine a world where the #2 from last year and current #1 gets auto promoted to MLS Battery play in a tiny erector set of a stadium that wouldn't be fit for a first division club in Belgium ffs"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 16:50:32 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Hermesish @Celoer0 @Jadentheman1 @ManagerTactical Love Reyna geeked on the Parma rumor own a Dortmund jersey despise QSMNT. Next"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 22:15:15 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@AlamoCitySC The folks that complain about RDP to Miami are the same folks that shit on MLS constantly about not spending enough. Tbf there are some legit gripes from Cbus fans that got wrist slapped on buying Nagbe down but this was just a creatively crafted deal to sidestep rules"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 22:17:11 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@OHBairn @medium_gray @NobletStrength @MLSMoves and that's the fucking point. I've been involved with MLS for over a decade of my professional life and watched it grow from a soccer crazy kid in the late 90s. No league in the world has grown as quickly. They're doing it today rather quietly steadily raising the level"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-16 20:09:48 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Blue_OrangeG8r @jopan89 @JayHrndz2 Interesting question and fair point but if Puli left now (say to Saudi) I'd venture he'd fetch 35-50m. It's not the ONLY factor but without question a major one"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 22:30:37 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Blue_OrangeG8r Who the fuck cares what Gio did X years ago That was a great season for a USMNT teenager it's why I bought his kit I thought he was going to go down as the greatest #10 we've ever had. Now he doesn't play can't get a transfer and his NT career is in the dumps. Failure"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 17:55:11 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@ManagerTactical The saddest thing about all of this: all we have is Gio's agent twerking for clubs rumors. It's so rough for him that his agent started with trying to generate PSV/Ajax type links and has moved to MLS. I don't see Bundesliga in the cards unless it's a free loan wages paid"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 19:39:27 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@FcDallasChelsea @MLSMoves @hazebrew_ and again I think they can do a lot just be killing off all these Garber bux rules and opening up the cap a bit but we need to stop pretending MLS clubs can afford to double their wage bill without serious pain to a good chunk of clubs"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-18 15:57:05 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"This is the level of intelligence our QSMNT supports have. Reyna has the 2nd best USMNT career vs. guys that start for EPL clubs Juve etc. You can't make this shit up"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 17:50:34 UTC XXX followers, 1261 engagements

"@Blue_OrangeG8r @JayHrndz2 Tyler Adams plays when not injured for his club"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 17:42:54 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@OHBairn @medium_gray @MLSMoves Yeah sorry but I'm ahead of you and disproved your second assertion. I'm a nerd for transfers because I work in big data for clubs and Miami has quietly added young South American talent. See my 2nd comment"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-16 19:47:22 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Blue_OrangeG8r @jopan89 @JayHrndz2 I don't know how many times I need to say this: I don't think his career is over. He's still quite young. My original point was gloating at the legions of Reyna stans that shit on GGG's entire first cycle and lauded Reyna as the example of his failed management"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 22:59:37 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@_captainpulisic The Cult of Reyna continues to live in a land of delusion"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-16 19:45:37 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@reformussoccer @ussoccer I'd like to see you celebrate MLS clubs that have weathered multiple failed leagues Seattle Portland San Jose Vancouver Montreal for example. I'll wait"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-16 19:09:51 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@shitpost314 @reformussoccer @ussoccer @hearts_sc Portland Timbers were a scrappy D2 club playing in a rented baseball stadium slowly putting together a passionate fanbase with $X beer nights and substandard footy and a great atmosphere. Now we're got X MLS finals appearances and spend millions on European players"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-16 23:42:56 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@ManagerTactical Secondly it's a pretty hard argument to make in 2025 that playing for a NAC Breda type club would be any better for his development than LAFC"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-15 20:04:41 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@AntoOAzer We do have major sporting competition with the NBA NFL MLB NHL and NCAA and a bunch of failed leagues and clubs with ONLY MLS standing a test of time and helping establish a foundation of soccer stadiums F2P academies and steady rise in quality across the board"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-16 16:21:57 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@Blue_OrangeG8r @JayHrndz2 Tyler Adams is a 20m+ pound player for a EPL side. Gio Reyna is a full on failure that has seen manager after manager toss him to the side. His club doesn't want him can't sell him and his career options are essentially mid-tier Euro clubs or MLS. WHAT THE FUCK"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 17:56:55 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@Blue_OrangeG8r @JayHrndz2 Just LOL. Using PSV stats don't prove a point when PSV doesn't want Reyna after his agent twerked for them. Reyna is below PSV's level and would be lucky to land a club of Rangers' size at this point. Hence we're talking about fucking MLS for him. My god man"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 19:23:00 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@NSC_Stats He is the worst thing about American soccer "media". Guy has ZERO experience with the game I'm quite sure he'd stub a toe if he tried to kick a ball and he's just constantly toxic. Made a jab at Bogert for being short was probably the lead voice in attacking Ageymang"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-15 15:23:46 UTC XXX followers, XXX engagements

"@OHBairn @medium_gray @MLSMoves So their plan is: Milk Messi for as long as fucking possible probably a solid 2-3 more years given his level. Anchor the WC hype around a new stadium that seems like a great fit for the city. Continue to target talented young players to fill out the roster and push MLS rules"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-16 19:48:38 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@FcDallasChelsea @MLSMoves @hazebrew_ LOL. You realize FC Dallas has actually splashed significant transfer fees over the last few years yes 10m+ in 23/24 nearly 15m last season"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-18 16:04:22 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@OHBairn @medium_gray @MLSMoves Post Messi they will have NO ISSUES acquiring other big names. In fact I would expect we'll continue to see those ages go down over time as MLS grows and most other clubs anchor around transfer targets like Denkey Da Costa and Lozano"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-16 20:03:01 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements

"@GorgeousMorganT @jeffcowles @ChrisIvey865 Yeah apparently what they've done here is taken him on loan for the first year and they'll probably cut Busi down next year so slightly different variation of skirting the rules. I would assume MLS would allow any club to do this but that's probably a wishful assumption"
@CommonSense503 on X 2025-07-17 16:35:21 UTC XXX followers, XX engagements