[Football] Club World Cup

[Guy Fawkes]

FIFA have announced a 'Club World Cup' consisting of 32 teams, every four years, and the first edition will be summer of 2025.
"They will be the best teams in the world invited to participate".

FIFA's answer to the failed Super League? or just another way to keep the richest clubs at the very top by boosting their income even further?
How will the sides that compete be selected? Will 'big clubs' that fail in say European cup competition still get a spot based on their name and historic achievements?

 

[KZNSeagull]

How selected? It's FIFA, so it will be the clubs that bung them the most money.

More unnecessary travel. Are we not supposed to be saving the planet?

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Since 2007 every team that has won it (other than Corinthians in 2012) has been European.

No one wants to see this. It's a worse Champions League.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

The concept was a great idea, when I was a kid in the seventies I used to do a mock draw based on the team names in the Subbuteo brochure (Hearts Of Oak, O’Higgins, Home Farm, AZ67 etc) I’m surprised it’s taken this long. However it’s not 1980 anymore so it’ll be corrupt and a load of shit. I’ve got no interest whatsoever

 

[amexer]

Crap. Who even takes notice of world team final now. All ready to many meaningless games in the 3 European competitions. If it comes in will be another go at reducing size of PL to fit these games in. All about money with no thought to what supporters want

 

[Swansman]

The Club World Cup is seen in a different way on the other continents, very prestigious competition. Can't say I usually watch it though.

 

[Motogull]

As ideas go, its pretty sound to me. Tough on the players mind.

 

[Mustafa II]

I'm all for it as long as there is a fair qualification system, so we're not seeing the same big names in it every time around.

 

[Brok]

As ideas go, its pretty sound to me. Tough on the players mind.

Who gives a toss about the players, if there's money to be made?
And the fans as well.

 

[Questions]

I’m sure we were ranked in the top 26 in the world recently on here for our income/blah blah …. We’re in then.

 

[Super Sub]

If Fifa are going to try and introduce something new, id much rather it was something different like a league against league proposition. Premier League squad against the same from Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Argentina, Brazil etc. Nationality doesn't count... just the league you play in and represent.

 

[Insel affe]

Mafia leader Infantino spoke about player welfare in his news conference. Adding more competitive fixtures to the calendar means more 'important' matches...

It will mean more money for FIFA is the underlying theme, players will clearly be prone to injury and in some cases play neigh on all year round.

This will no doubt lead (with further investment from aboard in the top six) to a reduced size of the Premier League, this will happen now, with probably one automatically down and a play off promotion (entrainment value, nothing to do with more money, honest Guv).

This makes it even more paramount we do not lose on position in the league over the next few years, sadly this is true, because we are here already, if we go down down, it will be neigh on impossible to rise again. Another reason why football is broken....

 

[Official Old Man]

Does it say how it will be run? 2025 is an 'off' summer with no Olympics, Euros or World Cup so is this a tournament that fills the summer gap? Will it be a home & away fixtures or all off to some rich country for sportswashing?
Personally I'm against it, unless we get picked of course.

 

[GT49er]

FIFA have announced a 'Club World Cup' consisting of 32 teams, every four years, and the first edition will be summer of 2025.
"They will be the best teams in the world invited to participate".

FIFA's answer to the failed Super League? or just another way to keep the richest clubs at the very top by boosting their income even further?
How will the sides that compete be selected? Will 'big clubs' that fail in say European cup competition still get a spot based on their name and historic achievements?

Both.

 

[Rookie]

So all the chat about player welfare is just crap really (not a shock).

 

[5Ways Gull]

Unless a few big footballing countries grow a pair and tell this retard and his acolytes to f*** off I can see the game ceasing to exist as we know it very soon