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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCUA currently has an 18 year old former academy product at a Premier League Club listed on the Senior Team roster[/quote]
LOL at calling him as an "academy product." He was there for like 5 minutes. [b]Arguably[/b], Loudoun United has a stronger claim.[/quote]

Arguably is right

Because if its the player at Bournemouth, he spent years in the DC United organization including getting a homegrown contract at 15 years old

He spent brief moments at Loudoun United, but we know this thread is facts lite[/quote]

Same arguments recycled.  We already established DCU was not good for this player or his career.  Just like griffin yow. He was successful despite DCU not. Because of them.   If that story is the best you have then literally God help all the kids at DCU [/quote]

Facts of club history

https://www.transfermarkt.us/matai-akinmboni/profil/spieler/994604[/quote]
No one is arguing he wasnt at DCU.  Just that DCU didn't fully support his career.  They almost dropped him when he was 13.   Bet you didn't know that.  He grew physically and that helped.  He played practically no minutes at DCU for the first team.  But they put the homegrown tag on him at 15 just like they did this recent kid because they wanted a PR headline and boost their homegrown numbers. Which they got then and they got now. They stagnated his career and his family and agent got him looks overseas because they knew he had no chance at dcu.  Which he capitalized on.  DCU was not a significant part of his move to Bournemouth.  Even if it was, he is a RARE, probably the rarest of rare cases of DCU actually having results.  It is all you can hold on to???  And if that is the best case, going through the academy to sign a homegrown, sit on DCUs bench even when they are the worst team and franchise in the league, then add that to the long list of reasons to  not go to DCU.

So basically, your argument is one player from the academy went to Bournemouth so the entire academy must be good??  🤣That's like offering that if one student from a very low performing high school goes to a really good college then the entire school must be good.  Hope you can see why that line of thinking and your logic is fundamentally flawed.

You're like dealing with a child.  It's actually.amusing.  keep it coming.  You will never one up me.  I am relentless...[/quote]

It's easy for you to be relentless because you're just rambling your opinion

There's no limits to that

There is a thing called context. The Bournemouth player was specifically mentioned in response to a specific line of argument.

If a player can come through DC United (as an example) and go to the Premier League but every other academy is 4% better in producing top tier professionals, then top tier leagues in Europe should be currently littered with all MLS Club Academy products.

But obviously that's not the case, so, what are these 29 academies better than DCU producing?[/quote]

They are producing better academies and development environments for youth players, from top to bottom, than DCU is.  Full stop.

And MLS academy products ARE all over top leagues in Europe.

Take a look here: https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/mls-abroad-every-export-in-premier-league-bundesliga-laliga-more

Just not a lot of DCU players...
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HAHAHAHAHAHA LOL 😆 🤣

This is not a list of players who were developed at MLS Club Academies then sold to European top division clubs

This is a list of players in January 2025 who played in the MLS at some point.

Eg: Spanish Player, Angelino who was loaned out from Manchester City to NYCFC for a brief period

2015–2018
Manchester City
2015→ New York City FC (loan)

Be relentless with the truth and facts and you'll have less to say

Okay, you're on your own. Enough of the nonsense for me, time to board 
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And no matter what, nothing youre saying makes DCU a good academy.  So it's really irrelevant.  But toying with you is very amusing to me.  [/quote]

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