Man United & Man City amongst seven clubs in secret talks with FIFA

razman

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New York Times Article here

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/sports/soccer/fifa-uefa-club-world-cup.html

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Representatives of seven of the world’s richest soccer teams, including Manchester United, Barcelona and Real Madrid, visited FIFA on Wednesday for a private meeting aimed at winning the clubs in the increasingly fractious battle to set up a new multibillion-dollar world club championship.

The group also included the English champion Manchester City, Italy’s Juventus, France’s Paris Saint-Germain and the perennial German champion Bayern Munich.

The seven clubs invited to the meeting had combined revenues of more than $4 billion in 2017, and they command a massive global fan base that would be critical to making FIFA’s secretive discussions about the new tournament, code-named “Project Trophy,” a success.
 


New York Times Article here

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/sports/soccer/fifa-uefa-club-world-cup.html

Few Paragraphs from the Article

Representatives of seven of the world’s richest soccer teams, including Manchester United, Barcelona and Real Madrid, visited FIFA on Wednesday for a private meeting aimed at winning the clubs in the increasingly fractious battle to set up a new multibillion-dollar world club championship.

The group also included the English champion Manchester City, Italy’s Juventus, France’s Paris Saint-Germain and the perennial German champion Bayern Munich.

The seven clubs invited to the meeting had combined revenues of more than $4 billion in 2017, and they command a massive global fan base that would be critical to making FIFA’s secretive discussions about the new tournament, code-named “Project Trophy,” a success.


Brilliant. A world league is inevitable at some point. The very least this proposal will do is focus the minds of UEFA on whether it is in their best interests to continue to run the CL for the benefit of the traditional G14.

The bigger boys have come out to play, set football's governing bodies against each other and it's going to be delicious.
 
How are they secret if everyone knows about them?..
 
FIFA’s talks with a handful of elite clubs could threaten the harmony among members of the European Club Association, which has a membership of more than 200 teams. Liverpool, a Champions League finalist this year; Roma, the team Liverpool vanquished in the semifinals; and Arsenal, whose chairman, Ivan Gazidis, sits on the E.C.A.’s board, were among the powerful teams not involved in Wednesday’s discussions

That will teach them to write letters
 
That will teach them to write letters

Oh yes and get their corrupt refs to screw us over. As Khaldoon famously said, "We will take a pinch for now." Well we've taken the pinch now it's time to hand out the bloody nose!
 

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