Expanded FIFA Club World Cup: Tournament News & General Discussion [R]

It will be interesting to see how many Conmebol+CAF players in UEFA clubs will run out of gas on 2026 WC.

That's 3 consecutive northern-hemisphere summers without a vacation, by July 2026.

 

Very difficult indeed. Especially when in AFC all the qualified clubs come from oil rich nations or the big clubs of ROK, Japan. So the ones getting the Euro 50mn are thr ones that need it the least.
And I don't see that changing.

And wake me up when someone other than Auckland City qualify from OFC.

Similarly, cutting the divisions to 18 teams means less revenue for smaller clubs so that the rich clubs have more time to go out and rake in even more cash.

 

Not necessarily if there are proper solidarity mechanisms in place for premier leagues to distribute part of their revenue to lower divisions.

 

Ancelotti Confirms Real Madrid Will Refuse To Play 2025 Club World Cup

 

That's massive if goes through.

And if it really does, the annoying Swiss-Qatari-African-Arab gay disabled migrant should leave. Along with his committee.

 

FIFA is probably going to entice teams to play in this thing.
Just cause a manager reportedly says no a year before the tournament does not mean a thing.

 

That would almost certainly start a domino effect within UEFA. In this UEFA versus FIFA power struggle, one area where FIFA doesn't have a leg to stand on is that there are 12 UEFA teams partaking in the tournament. That's a lot.

 

Yes, it is inconceivable that the club which won the UCL twice during the qualification period in 2022 and 2024 wouldn't participate.

 

I don't follow the finances of the game that closely, but seemed like he was pulling that number out of his arse. (?)

 

Very likely, yes.

FIFA has not yet released details of the financials.

 

If I understood it correctly Ancelotti said Real gets 20 million for a friendly match.
I think that's right out of his arse or the Spanish IRS is going to have another look at the books of Real.

 

Yeah, even if 75k fans pay $200 per ticket, that's "only" $15 mn and 2 teams have to split that (minus costs of course). If the match is played in Spain you can divide that ticket price by about 4. I guess there would be other sources of revenue but its not like you are gonna strike some massive TV deal for a friendly.

 

Some of those are stretches. Barca v Santos? Sure, there was a lot of hype. The best player in the world versus "the next one". But much like Neymar's career, the match didn't live up to that hype. Neither Neymar nor his team were able to get anything going so it ended up looking a lot like a Man City v Fulham game. There are at least 4-5 EPL matches every weekend that are more entertaining.

 

lol What a joke it is to wait until after the completion of the competition or late in the competition to determine what team from that competition will be selected.