Madridistas All Over Copa And Euros Collide While Colombians Dominate - The Other Teams Thread

He drives me crazy because he has great mobility but his ball handling isn't good. I can't believe he was a futsal player because his ball control isn't of a futsal player.

 

A German reporter said a lot of players from Europe simply do not want to be stuck with the rest of team for that long and plan to phone in it at the CWC for an early exit. Said the experience reminded them of a national team tournament and some are already sick of it, mostly guys with families.

 

The players don't give a shit about the money that goes into the clubs pockets.

From what I've heard from Bayern circles every player that negotiated with the club this summer only wanted to play the CWC if they get paid extra for it.

The only thing you can rely on is the competitive spirit of the players, because financially, they're last in line to profit from this circus cup.

 

City phoned it in the entire season. Give me a break.

By the way, the report was live before the Atleti game, during the Bayern match, so nice try.

There will be European sides that will crash out early.

 

Not every player will show the same commitment. I don't see what's so controversial about it.

The entire tournament seems so weird to me. There's this notion about the bonus earnings, but there's no clear picture on the financing of the tournament (which is allegedly not fully provided yet), nor how the bonuses will be spread out to players and participating teams.
No clear picture on costs of participation either, which makes people talk about the bonuses as if players play in this completely for free, or covered by their regular contract, or that the clubs cover zero expenses while doing this.

Just seems incredibly naive and untransparent, but it makes sense that a sport that believed the myth that "kit sales pay for star players" would be equally naive about this.

After being involved with the NFL Europe game last year, I can tell you that the NFL stretched multiple cities completely out of the picture, requesting millions for just a weekend of two teams being there, Berlin said a weekend of NFL football costs as much as an entire week or two of a UEFA/FIFA tournament. I don't even want to imagine how much the cost would be for so many football teams across so many cities. Scaling it up, and looking at what the tournament is generating right now it seems like an insane financial proposal

 

As far as Bayern goes, the reports are that the club sees this as a replacement US pre season tour mixed in with a bit of a Thomas Müller farewell show. Everybody has their own motivations.

 

See, all very fluid and wishy washy. Just typical for this sport.

One day it's a billion in revenue, the other the sport is dying. We're hearing it every other week.

 

You have no idea what the club expenses are and how they distribute it though. I know for a fact for a example that a lot of players with additional occupation ensurance deals found out they don't cover this tournament.

For all the criticism about Infantino, you haven't even reached up for air since this looney tunes cup has been drawn up.

I find it pretty funny. Criticize the influx in cash into PSG and City, then twerk it like a Polaroid picture (oh oh) as soon as it seems some of it might fall on the floor for us to pick up.

Absolutely laughable moral flexibility.

I also love how a participation fee is rolled into a "bonus" when it's clear that it's a fee that is necessary to cover for costs. Tah will cost Bayern up to 4 million in additional fees depending on how far they get into this tournament, and as those bits and piece bonuses are spread around, those financial incentives get torn to shreds before the clubs get to count them.

Whatever, I guess I'm asking for way too much accountability from a sport that has shown absolutely zero of it.

 

I never said that. I'm just not creating some illusion of game changing wealth to justify this.

It's a cash grab, and possibly a political power move to wrestle club football away from UEFA.

Just so many awful people coming together to make this happen.

 

Nobody boycotted the World Cup.

 

It also varies by age, I'm thinking a lot of older guys don't really have the energy for this shit, while for younger players it's more time to be together. Just different life situations.