FIFA proposal for new Club World Cup

Mirth

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/may/16/uefa-gianni-infantino-club-world-cup

Depending on how this thing is structured, Arsenal may end up missing out (on current form) and if we're left behind then we'll miss out on a huge chunk of revenue.

That's beside the fact that the whole thing is such a blatant and obvious cash grab that it's sickening.

Rohit

Football has lost its soul.

Claudius

Why has football lost its soul? What does that even mean?

speedy

Teams aren't local owned or local players. And support is global. I used to think like football has lost it soul. But I don't really think that way anymore. If they wanna change it up so more people can watch more fun games then why not?

Anzac

Just wonder how UEFA would be able to fund it - the CL is the poor relation to the EPL.
And that being the case why would the PL clubs want to leave the PL revenues that still have plenty of scope before they reach US Sports levels.
94m each sounds like a lot but it's not a great deal more than they are already generating, and may not be that much more than the new TV deals.

Rohit

speedy wrote:
Teams aren't local owned or local players. And support is global. I used to think like football has lost it soul. But I don't really think that way anymore. If they wanna change it up so more people can watch more fun games then why not?

Change has to be inclusive though. It is already a preserve of a few teams. Strengthening their finances further only widens the gulf. It's more global than it ever was and it's attracting more audience every year. Listening to some kids talk here most times it seems that other clubs exist only to make up numbers.

speedy

Yea that's the drawback of globalisation.