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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 7, 2016 9:05:41 GMT -5
Hey everybody. I know it's been a long while, and I'm sorry for that. How's everybody been? Good to see you back here Ms Sabra. You have been missed in your absence. Hopefully life is treating you well.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on May 7, 2016 9:23:46 GMT -5
Just a little insight for our american friends on football : contrary to US football, players aren't sourced from colleges and such but mostly "formed" in the various teams youth centers from an early age. Teams will also source young players from anywhere possible (and allowed : until recently, it was allowed for a french team to hire a brazilian 12 year old!). When a young player hits 16, he can get a professional internship withe the A team of the club, whichever league they belong to. most good players get a full pro contract around 17-18 these days. This all means that every year, plenty of top new talent emerges and becomes subject to mercyless bids between top teams since budgets aren't restricted in football. The next interseason will probably see the 100 million player buyout barrier be first broken, and so several times.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2016 9:41:46 GMT -5
Just a little insight for our american friends on football : contrary to US football, players aren't sourced from colleges and such but mostly "formed" in the various teams youth centers from an early age. Teams will also source young players from anywhere possible (and allowed : until recently, it was allowed for a french team to hire a brazilian 12 year old!). When a young player hits 16, he can get a professional internship withe the A team of the club, whichever league they belong to. most good players get a full pro contract around 17-18 these days. This all means that every year, plenty of top new talent emerges and becomes subject to mercyless bids between top teams since budgets aren't restricted in football. The next interseason will probably see the 100 million player buyout barrier be first broken, and so several times. This is interesting stuff and I did not know that a 16 year old soccer player gets a professional internship and they get started out that young!
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2016 9:45:02 GMT -5
Long time, no see and I'm happy to see you back in the hunt of things ... Your presence has been missed! I'm sorry for that, but it's good to be home I'm glad to be back to living No problems and glad to see you online again ... I was very happy to see you doing just great!
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on May 7, 2016 9:58:21 GMT -5
This is interesting stuff and I did not know that a 16 year old soccer player gets a professional internship and they get started out that young! I must specify this isn't that common though. Most pro players that young will usually play for the B team of the club and get to play if a titular key player gets injured (which is quite often in football), Which will gives the gemms in hte rough opportunity to fully shine. But for a player like Messi, he was bought by Barcelonna when he was around 13 IIRC, it was just obvious he had natural talent. French clubs are bound to develop many talented young players since the english and spanish leagues buy most of the new talent after their first good season : Premier League teams currently have budgets maybe 5 or 6 times bigger than the french teams thanks to unprecedent broadcasts deals. Spain is another case : they have completly different tax laws which allows teams to have huge deficits (Madrid may be the richest club n the world, it also is the most indebted one), something completly forbidden in France. But in the long run this is good for us since atfer brazilian players, french ones are the most in demand/bought in pro clubs in the world, which helps the national team a great deal and which is why the english national team has been underperforming expectations in recent decades : they rarely give their young talent enough play time due to hte positions already taken buy expensive foreign talent.
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Post by Wild Card on May 7, 2016 9:59:27 GMT -5
Hey everybody. I know it's been a long while, and I'm sorry for that. How's everybody been? Good to see you back here Ms Sabra. You have been missed in your absence. Hopefully life is treating you well. Thank you! I missed y'all too! Life has gotten better. It's not great, but it's definitely better! Thank you! How have you been?
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Post by Wild Card on May 7, 2016 10:01:30 GMT -5
I'm sorry for that, but it's good to be home I'm glad to be back to living No problems and glad to see you online again ... I was very happy to see you doing just great! Me too! It took me while to work up the courage to. Then I needed courage more to actually post. But now it's easier now that the doors are open I'm glad to see you too! Have you been good?
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on May 7, 2016 10:03:11 GMT -5
No problems and glad to see you online again ... I was very happy to see you doing just great! Me too! It took me while to work up the courage to. Then I needed courage more to actually post. But now it's easier now that the doors are open I'm glad to see you too! Have you been good? Just start writing about comis you love and it should come easy
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Post by Wild Card on May 7, 2016 10:06:29 GMT -5
Me too! It took me while to work up the courage to. Then I needed courage more to actually post. But now it's easier now that the doors are open I'm glad to see you too! Have you been good? Just start writing about comis you love and it should come easy Good idea! Lol I'll take it!
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Post by Wild Card on May 7, 2016 10:08:25 GMT -5
Oh, you guys!! This is neat!! Not sure if all Walmarts are doing it, but at my Walmart where I work, I found a section in the cards (trading cards) of packs of out of print comic books. There's four in a pack and it's five dollars for a pack. Thought it was interesting. Thinking of picking up one to see what's in it!
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2016 10:13:40 GMT -5
Good to see you back here Ms Sabra. You have been missed in your absence. Hopefully life is treating you well. Thank you! I missed y'all too! Life has gotten better. It's not great, but it's definitely better! Thank you! How have you been? Been busy and enjoying retirement in my 10th year and spending a lot of time in both Victoria and Vancouver Canada visiting friends during my College Years and I went to San Francisco for a week last year attending a wedding of a dear friend of mine and helping my brother with lots of family stuff. My Dad passed away a few months ago and now I've don't have any parents at all. I will be going to Disneyland next May and Williamsburg Virginia in the Fall for a History Conference and that's about it. I will be writing a Family Memoir of my Mom and Dad real soon. My family had asked me to do this because I'm the only one that has the know how to get it done. My sister in law will do the most of the writing and I will try my best to get all the answers from my immediate family and beyond. I was the youngest member in my family and I spent a lot of time with my Parents when I ws growing up. I learned this today from one of my brothers.
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Post by Wild Card on May 7, 2016 10:32:39 GMT -5
Thank you! I missed y'all too! Life has gotten better. It's not great, but it's definitely better! Thank you! How have you been? Been busy and enjoying retirement in my 10th year and spending a lot of time in both Victoria and Vancouver Canada visiting friends during my College Years and I went to San Francisco for a week last year attending a wedding of a dear friend of mine and helping my brother with lots of family stuff. My Dad passed away a few months ago and now I've don't have any parents at all. I will be going to Disneyland next May and Williamsburg Virginia in the Fall for a History Conference and that's about it. I will be writing a Family Memoir of my Mom and Dad real soon. My family had asked me to do this because I'm the only one that has the know how to get it done. My sister in law will do the most of the writing and I will try my best to get all the answers from my immediate family and beyond. I was the youngest member in my family and I spent a lot of time with my Parents when I ws growing up. I learned this today from one of my brothers. That's a lot of places to visit and a lot of places you already went! Sounds busy, but not a bad busy. I'm sorry to hear about your dad. You have my condolences. I hope you find all the answers you need and that they come easy. A Family Memoir sounds like a wonderful idea. You'll be good at it, I know it.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2016 11:10:26 GMT -5
Been busy and enjoying retirement in my 10th year and spending a lot of time in both Victoria and Vancouver Canada visiting friends during my College Years and I went to San Francisco for a week last year attending a wedding of a dear friend of mine and helping my brother with lots of family stuff. My Dad passed away a few months ago and now I've don't have any parents at all. I will be going to Disneyland next May and Williamsburg Virginia in the Fall for a History Conference and that's about it. I will be writing a Family Memoir of my Mom and Dad real soon. My family had asked me to do this because I'm the only one that has the know how to get it done. My sister in law will do the most of the writing and I will try my best to get all the answers from my immediate family and beyond. I was the youngest member in my family and I spent a lot of time with my Parents when I ws growing up. I learned this today from one of my brothers. That's a lot of places to visit and a lot of places you already went! Sounds busy, but not a bad busy. I'm sorry to hear about your dad. You have my condolences. I hope you find all the answers you need and that they come easy. A Family Memoir sounds like a wonderful idea. You'll be good at it, I know it. Thanks for your condolences Sabra! ... and I'm putting together pieces by pieces of my Family Memoir that I spend about a hour or two a day on it. I just spent 40 minutes on it today and my brother appreciated the information that I gave him. My sister in law is a fast typist and a English Scholar and we spend about 2 hours together on a Wednesday Evening putting it all together and hope to have it done by Fall. We wanted to do this for future generations to come.
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Post by shaxper on May 7, 2016 11:12:52 GMT -5
Oh, you guys!! This is neat!! Not sure if all Walmarts are doing it, but at my Walmart where I work, I found a section in the cards (trading cards) of packs of out of print comic books. There's four in a pack and it's five dollars for a pack. Thought it was interesting. Thinking of picking up one to see what's in it! That is awesome! I really miss those.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 7, 2016 11:41:20 GMT -5
Good to see you back here Ms Sabra. You have been missed in your absence. Hopefully life is treating you well. Thank you! I missed y'all too! Life has gotten better. It's not great, but it's definitely better! Thank you! How have you been? Good thank you. Ive been through some struggles but the light at the end of the tunnel seems to be getting brighter. I'll probably be getting back into comics myself too. I've been pretty stagnant. Thank you for your concern. Oh, you guys!! This is neat!! Not sure if all Walmarts are doing it, but at my Walmart where I work, I found a section in the cards (trading cards) of packs of out of print comic books. There's four in a pack and it's five dollars for a pack. Thought it was interesting. Thinking of picking up one to see what's in it! I remember seeing those in Woolworth's and Walgreens when I lived in St Louis when I started with comics in the 90's. Didn't realize they were still around. But to be honest I don't go there much and when I did work their for a bit in 2011, I don't remember seeing them. But I liked them when I would see them because of the surprise of what might be inside.
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