Hopefully this money grab wipes out City and Chelsea. https://www.fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/club-world-cup/usa-2025/articles/teams-dates-venue-groups-draw-matches-tickets If we rest up and do our business early, we should be set up nicely.
Claudius Guardiola on the CWC:
"They told me the golf courses are really nice in America. If my back allows it, I’ll play absolutely […] I draw the ball really well. I have a problem with putting but I’ll practice. We are going to try to try to enjoy that experience."
It amounts to FIFA boosting its scoop of all available broadcast revenue. What else are they gonna do? And they have to make the prize money vast to justify the disruption for the top clubs—whose attitude is always gonna be "We'll get as much of that as we can, but we're not gonna work for it."
Chelsea? So teams that won something years ago qualify? Really is just a money grab. Consequence of winning something I guess is having to deal with this shitshow. Will there be half time shows and commercials during the games too?
This whole thing is a scheme to get the big Saudi clubs up against the big European and South American clubs in an attempt to legitimise them.
Having Chelsea in the competition is hilarious and shows how corrupt the whole thing is. I wont be watching.
Qwiss i am in the same boat. could give a rat's big old ass about this farce. and you are right. the more people see random Saudi club playing against Boca Juniors and Juventus, the more FIFA can legitimize stuffing every competition in the Middle East. They will surely find a way to do an Abu Dhabi/Dubai WC soon.
Qwiss
I'm not against more competitive leagues in the world. The Europeans bought their prestige, so why can't the Arabs?
A World Club Cup with truly competitive Asian and South American teams would be great IMO. That's how football used to be back in the 70's when all the South Americans played on their continent and the biggest match was Santos vs Benfica in the Intercontinental Cup.
Sicario2 somebody let him know Salah ain't the only Muslim player.
daredevil Let's not try to normalise state sponsored sportswashing. There's a clear MO that the Saudi's have been running across the sporting world in the past decade and it's not comparable to the development of club football in Europe or South America or in other parts of Asia.
Pool are getting battered. If only we had competent refs. Tarkowski wouldn't even have been around to cheat against us.
Annoying watching the wheels come off for Liverpool but us being too far behind for it to matter.
Qwiss Annoying watching the wheels come off for Liverpool but us being too far behind for it to matter.
Tell me the 8 points we've had ripped off us by PGMOL doesn't matter, eh. Beating Liverpool in May to remind the world what should've been is one of relatively few potential pleasures the season has left to offer us.
Pool pull one back, but not before Van Dijk escapes a blatant red card for an elbow.
Jimenez is honestly a plonker.
FT.. Fulham wins 3-2. Good win for them, too bad we shit the bed yesterday.
We gain a point on them, woohoo!
So.. Soton relegated (again).. Earliest a team has ever been relegated in the Prem (7 games remaining). And Ramsdale has now been relegated 3 times.
USArsenal more than that, I think it's relegation, relegation, Europa League, we nearly won the league, subs bench, relegation.
Who'd be a goalkeeper eh?
USArsenal
Ramsdale, Holding and Zinchenko in our defence for the title run-in in 2023. We never stood a chance once Saliba did his back in.
Would be typical if Liverpool fall apart in the last games. We still play them too
Dom Once you think this over, it makes perfect sense Arteta's spent more and more money on centre halves, keepers and left backs since.
