Why did he do it?

Money.

We paid £55m for Joao Pedro and he just earned us £22m in one night.

>>149682592 (OP)
>Why did he do it?
His ex is a Fluminense fan.

>>149682592 (OP)
least self hating brazilian

>>149682643

We sold him for €11mi.

>>149682658
Modern day slavery. Poor fucking guy

>>149682631
Based Tedd Bowly

Pelé stayed in Brazil and made our football what it is. Now everyone leaves and ends up playing against us. Simple as that.

>>149682709
Maybe pay your players then?

>>149682592 (OP)
That's just how being a mercenary works.

>>149682631
>Chelshit needed a new CF to beat some banana farmers

>>149682722
when they leave this behind for a paycheck while they are still teens all hope is lost

>>149682722
It's not about money. If Brazil had the money to pay them more, we'd just turn into Saudi Arabia.
The European problem is not that they pay more for the athletes. Thirdie kids now grow up not with the dream of playing for their childhood clubs or big Brazilian clubs, but of playing the UEFA Champions League for Real Madrid or PissG. You can see from certain Brazilian players that their biggest dream is not even winning a WC but winning the UCL for a big European club. Like Vini.

>>149682904
>there was a small chance that Flu would win this cup and reignite that passion for BR clubs, making kids want to stay here to defend their country
>instead, it got eliminated by an ex-player who got merc'd to yurop so the opposite happened and the future remains unchanged
It's over. Not even O HEXA can save us anymore given how even our coach is a yuro now.

>>149682972
>>149682904
Needs to made into a separate thread. We all just watched something tragic in sports and most don’t even realize it.

>>149682972
>o hexa
Never happening because of what I mentioned earlier. The UEFA psyop worked. The next Pelé is playing as Barcelona in EA FC and his dream is to play in the Camp Nou, even if it means leaving Cruzeiro the second he turns 18 and go to Mallorca. Win the Champions League and the Ballon d'Or, that's the highest goal. The Seleção is an afterthought.

>>149682904
I also think the appeal of European football, aside from the high pay, is the fact that it has fans from all over the world and makes anyone who performs well in it into a global sensation and a lot kids dream of that. Meanwhile if you play well in Brazil, Argentina or Saudi Arabia, nobody cares outside of those countries.

>>149683259
It could work if there’s a player who stars and wins a World Cup or even multiple.

>>149683038
Yep, people are not realizing a brazilian team took two goals from a dude they trained in his first match for Chelsea.

This was so depressing. They buried brazilian football. Even the fans were not mad with their team.

>>149683259
Internet put the nail in coffin for any sort of national isolation. Now even people hope and dreams are globalized.

>>149683372
Japan always retains lots of their baseball talent for their domestic league. Brazilians should try to learn from them.

>>149682592 (OP)
Socioeconomic reasons

>>149682592 (OP)
>Huh, Fluminense, I see? Long time no see these colours. Back then I was a different man, a poor kid they thought they had saved off the street. They laughed, pitied me, underestimated my capacity. They never knew. They never knew this fire I carry today, that back then was but a spark. Now else I consume the world, it threatens to consume me. These English men paid me for what the vengeance I would have enacted for free, and they celebrate their investment as if the truth I made manifest had not exposed them and the reality of this sport to all who watched
>Huh, let'em laugh and cheer and booze
>Little do they know their time shall come too

>>149683291
Stop being dramatic, Brazilian football is not any worse off than it has been the last few decades because of this tournament.

>>149683496
>the best compliment a german can ever formulate

>>149683259
Naturally. Agents themselves sell the European dream to prospective players from their childhood. As if the European spectacle wasn't ensnaring enough, agents will seduce them with the money, the fame and the prestige that Europe can offer so that they can get their own cuts from multimillionaire transfers and inflated salaries.
>>149683387
Football is far more aggressive in hiring talent from other countries. Despite being by far the biggest and most important basketball competition in the world, only 1/4 of the talent in the NBA is foreign-born. If you look at Chelsea's starting XI against Fluminense, only Adarabioyo, Chalobah and Palmer were born in England. They also had Dewsbury-Hall, Nicolas Jackson and Reece James coming out from the bench. That's 6/16 English athletes.
Nips can retain their baseball talent, but not their football talent. Nakata, Japan's most celebrated player, made his career in Italy. Other Japanese legends like Honda, Kagawa, Hasebe and Uchida all went to Europe too.

And not all Europeans are made the same. Even the biggest clubs in countries like Portugal, Croatia and Belgium are in no position to compete if clubs like PSG and Bayern get their eyes on their best players.

>>149683528
I'm not German, but perhaps I've been here too long.

>>149682592 (OP)
He knows Europe is Superior

chikaner was right
UEFA psyopped latin america
messi vs ronaldo was a trap
thirdies fell for it

>>149683387
I can see alot of Japanese talents will looks a way to move to the MLB following Ohtani footstep. The biggest hurddle isn't their willingness to move or even the state of the national league but American clubs is way more exclusive and strongly prefer American talents over all else due to draft system.

>>149683600
true
meanwhile the most sought after young star in Germany since Wirtz is off the market says this

>>149682592 (OP)
>you now remember Brazilians seething a few months ago because he was called up instead of Endrick

>>149683600
trvth nvke
>>149683637
8-1

>>149683600
this

>>149683617
that's not how Japanese players come to the MLB at all. They have rules in Japan where you have to play x amount of years in their domestic league (NPB) and then you can request your team to post you. Only then are you allowed to move to the mlb, where you become a free agent able to sign to the highest bidder.

>>149682592 (OP)
>>149682631
What a glowup
He's so handsome now

>>149682643
she needs my bbc