Club World Cup

Not a chance it will get binned with the ridiculous price money on offer 100 million to the winner!

Compare that to the 70 million PSG got in total for winning champions league no owner is turn those funds down.
There extending it to 48 teams next tournament also.

No one gives a toss about player welfare case in point the last two end of season International tournaments have been an awful watch and it will continue.
Only saving grace about the Qatar WC in the middle of the season players didn't looked knackered and the quality of the games a lot higher.
 
Maybe they should make it like the LDV/Carabao/Bristol Street Motors/whatever it's called this week...

Invite in the U21s of the leading Nations.

PSG vs Brazil U21s.
England U21s vs Auckland City.

If that doesn't get you excited, then nothing in football will
 
Will the big name teams play there top players. Not sure why they would want to.
Bayern Munich superstars vs Auckland FC whom every player is an amatuer
 
They struggled to sell the TV rights in the UK as no one was really bothered about it. Dazn came in last second after their Saudi owners suddenly decided the rights were worth $1b, they got given the world cup a few weeks later. Funny that. Its all just a big racket as per usual with FIFA and Uefa.
 
With so many countries either at war or on the brink of war , what a time to start something like this. How long will it last if NATO and Russia backed by North Korea and China go at it.

On the plus side though people may remember who was top of the football league when the second world war broke out and we were there for 7 years too.
 
OneStepBeyond said:
Really hope this tournament gets f'cked off after one year or the players that are playing are completely exhausted come the start of the season and thus forcing the clubs to reject a future invite.
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Isn't it on some random sports channel that used to show non-league games?!
 
Where to start with this nonsense?

Firstly, it’s well documented that there is little appetite on the part of the fans.
This week the organisers have been trying to offload five tickets for $20 to college kids.

FIFA might want to project this as a global sporting celebration.
But we’ve already got a competition that does that - the World Cup, which works because now more than ever there is a rough equality.
Senegal can beat England but a Senegalese club side would have sod all chance against a Premier League club.

In contrast, the gulf between rich and poor clubs is so big that mismatches are inevitable.
Anyone daft enough to put money on Esperance de Tunis or Auckland City winning a single game? Or scoring a goal?

And the prize money will have a major distorting effect on domestic leagues.
Boca Juniors and River Plate will each get £11.25m in appearance money - each of the two league champions in Argentina each season receives just £370k in prize money.
Auckland City (ground capacity 5,000) play in the Dettol Northern League (yes, really), an amateur league in New Zealand’s North Island, where player expenses are capped at £70 a week.
They will get £2.56 million from the CWC even if they lose every game.
So FIFA is staging a tournament that will further ruin the competitiveness of domestic leagues.

All so that FIFA, looking enviously at UEFA & the Champions League, can increase its influence over the club game and boost its revenues.

Edit – And to enable an exercise in narcissism by Infantino, whose name is engraved on the trophy twice.
The first says "Founding president, Gianni Infantino", followed by the 55-year-old's signature.
Which might be tolerable, given that the first World Cup trophy was named after its founder, Jules Rimet.

But then the second one reads "We are witness to a new age. The golden era of club football: the era of the FIFA Club World Cup. The pinnacle of all club competitions. Inspired by the FIFA president Gianni Infantino."
* Projectile vomit *
 
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Was reading an article about the influence of the Saudi wealth fund, dazn have paid about eleventy trillion dollars for the rights and are making games free to view, and they are already struggling with debt and behold the Saudi s have stumped up an equivalent sum for a minor stake in dazn. FIFA the last word in corruption.
 
The latest is that they can't sell tickets for it, no one wants them. So the few people that have bought them are being moved to areas that will been seen by the cameras. What a shit show.

Having it in America was never going to work to start with, the times of the games sucks for Europe for a start and they dont have the fan base there to give it the best launch. It should have either been in Europe or south America, times would have still sucked if was in SA, but it would have had full stadiums at least. Its nothing more than a money grab and fifa pretending its anything else is laughable.
 
Toastrack said:
Where to start with this nonsense?

Firstly, it’s well documented that there is little appetite on the part of the fans.
This week the organisers have been trying to offload five tickets for $20 to college kids.

FIFA might want to project this as a global sporting celebration.
But we’ve already got a competition that does that - the World Cup, which works because now more than ever there is a rough equality.
Senegal can beat England but a Senegalese club side would have sod all chance against a Premier League club.

In contrast, the gulf between rich and poor clubs is so big that mismatches are inevitable.
Anyone daft enough to put money on Esperance de Tunis or Auckland City winning a single game? Or scoring a goal?

And the prize money will have a major distorting effect on domestic leagues.
Boca Juniors and River Plate will each get £11.25m in appearance money - each of the two league champions in Argentina each season receives just £370k in prize money.
Auckland City (ground capacity 5,000) play in the Dettol Northern League (yes, really), an amateur league in New Zealand’s North Island, where player expenses are capped at £70 a week.
They will get £2.56 million from the CWC even if they lose every game.
So FIFA is staging a tournament that will further ruin the competitiveness of domestic leagues.

All so that FIFA, looking enviously at UEFA & the Champions League, can increase its influence over the club game and boost its revenues.

Edit – And to enable an exercise in narcissism by Infantino, whose name is engraved on the trophy twice.
The first says "Founding president, Gianni Infantino", followed by the 55-year-old's signature.
Which might be tolerable, given that the first World Cup trophy was named after its founder, Jules Rimet.

But then the second one reads "We are witness to a new age. The golden era of club football: the era of the FIFA Club World Cup. The pinnacle of all club competitions. Inspired by the FIFA president Gianni Infantino."
* Projectile vomit *
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That stuff about Infantino says it all.
 
This is FIFA doing the usual FIFA things. Governing body for football with no interest in the betterment of football.

The background to it all is FIFA’s desire to access Saudi money.

Just like their decision to have a 2030 World Cup which features games in Europe Africa and South America - 3 confederations cleared in one tournament so the 2034 tournament can go to Saudi Arabia.
 
I watched the first half, gushing commentary saying it will be bigger than the World Cup! The Football was league 2 standard
 
That Hard Rock stadium or whatever it's called is fantastic. Love the roof, with Hard rock on it. Imagine a tangerine roof on top with Blackpool fc on? It would look amazing from the air.
 
WIZARD OF TANGERINE said:
I love football ,but I have lost so much interest in it . I don't even watch the prem . The only team I watch is Blackpool and I bet there are a few more like me ,who used to watch nearly all TV games , but don't bother now.
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Oh Dear!

The majority of my old school mates are in this mode.
Dead keen footy fans then other things take priority combined with married life.

They stopped watching Footy and eventually lost interest in BFC.
You only have to think of the regular posters on here over 10 years ago and now they gone.
That’s life I suppose.

Sorry but Footy and other sports are with me to the grave.
I may even watch some of the World club cup.
 
I'm not a great fan of this tournament for a number of reasons, but it is interesting to compare styles of football. European v US, Middle East v South America etc. I don't expect the goal-less first game will endear football to the US crowds. Looking forward to the PSG v Athletico game today.
 
How on earth does an amateur club - Auckland - get into a world cup!? FFS this is a sick joke. The players don't want it (Rodri said he'd support going on strike), supporters don't want it, tickets that started out at $400-600 are now going for $4 and students are being offered free tickets if they just buy one.
 
Templeton_Peck said:
How on earth does an amateur club - Auckland - get into a world cup!? FFS this is a sick joke. The players don't want it (Rodri said he'd support going on strike), supporters don't want it, tickets that started out at $400-600 are now going for $4 and students are being offered free tickets if they just buy one.
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I ready that they got $600k for winning their league as its only semi pro, but they will be getting over $5m for this which gives them a huge advantage in their home league.
 
I bleed Tangerine said:
They struggled to sell the TV rights in the UK as no one was really bothered about it. Dazn came in last second after their Saudi owners suddenly decided the rights were worth $1b, they got given the world cup a few weeks later. Funny that. Its all just a big racket as per usual with FIFA and Uefa.
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Yeh, this distinctive statue of Infantino, created after the Qatar World Cup, seems relevant all over again...

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I missed the start of teh PSG game last night, do they introduce players individually in every game? They better not try this absolute bollocks at the world cup next year.
 
Kyle Seasider said:
I missed the start of teh PSG game last night, do they introduce players individually in every game? They better not try this absolute bollocks at the world cup next year.
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Contrived Yank shoite...

Individually introducing the soccer stars onto the field.
Ten second countdown to kick off.

This is what you get when the Americans start to take control.

I'm no fan of Chelsea but hope they stuff this lot.
 
Satriale's Pork Store said:
Contrived Yank shoite...

Individually introducing the soccer stars onto the field.
Ten second countdown to kick off.

This is what you get when the Americans start to take control.

I'm no fan of Chelsea but hope they stuff this lot.
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All this competition is doing is making me dread the world cup next year. Half time show in the final and all that bollocks is gonna do my head in.
 
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