The owners of most big bulgarian clubs (apart from Ludogorets - aka the billionaire club) tend to scout free agent foreigners and bring them in by the dozen.

The script they all follow is standard by now: bring in foreigner for no money, hope he does well, sell him in a season or two for profit, rinse and repeat. Because of this, clubs never really improve, because even if one of them has a good season, chances are by the next season they will sell half of their team and replace them with new free agents.

This basically means very few youth players make it into the starting 11’s. Also because of the way the BFS has managed our football for the past 20 years, the youth systems are completely fucked as well. You can walk into any age group of a big clubs youth system and it’s almost guaranteed you’ll see at least 3-4 kids in the starting 11 who are absolutely shit, but they’re playing because their parents are paying.

Holy shits it’s over. What a fucking game.

So proud of the boys. Instant Premier league classic.

OH MY GOD

Just an average Messi goal.

Crazy the standards he’s fucking created. I wish he’d play for 10 more years.