Club World Cup - Summer 2025

urban genie said:
It a money making scam

They had many clubs saying they would fuck it off early doors as no one wamted extea pointless games until they offered massive paydays and incentives

They shoehorned Inter Miami in on a technicality so Messi would be able.to be used to give it some global interest

It's fucking up the tsansfer window and disrupts participant preperations for the new season.

Lastly Hosting it in America to court sponsprships and the ridiculously priced tickets will see less proper fan engagement, as itnisn't national teams you won't get the ame as say an ashes tour or the euros or world cup where a core large group will travel over for it.

It shite, it's mainly unwanted by Players, fans and clubs admittedly mostly in Europe where the existing club world cup is considered meaningless, nice to have the gold shield on your top for a year but be realistic, winning it ain't as important as your domestic league or cup or the champions league.

I mean if we were not in it you wouldn't even hear about it as it is hardly grabbing the attention of fans of clubs not participating, no broadcaster has taken a serious interest to show it and the silly rules (special kits, strongest squads, etc) have give it a negative press.

I would rather we had rest time for a title charge and won't be sad if we go out early
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Exactly.
The fact it's in America makes it twice as shit as it would be.
Add the fact they have shoe horned the pointless team messi plays for into it
It's a farce fuck it off
 
Betterdeedthan red said:
Exactly.
The fact it's in America makes it twice as shit as it would be.
Add the fact they have shoe horned the pointless team messi plays for into it
It's a farce fuck it off
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If any club had a backbone they would boycot any American sporting trip while the country is ran by people no better than Kim Jong Un, Netanyahu or Putin.


Imagine you won it and the trophy is presented to you by that orange tanned shitgibbon and his crackhead sidekick, urgh no thanks
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
That’s what the Football League Chairman, Alan Hardaker, said (not his exact words) about the European Cup in 1955 when he denied Chelsea the right to play in the inaugural competition.

The first final got 127,000 attendance at Hampden between Madrid and Frankfurt, and it soon became the biggest most prestigious club competition in the world.

I think this competition can become as big as the Champions League and International World Cup. We may look back at playing in the very first one as a great honour.

I do think there’s too much football. However, I think there’s mainly too much international football, with the quality of which being poor. Club football is miles better than international football. I’d rather watch a Club World Cup over an international World Cup, any day.
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That was the fifth final not the first.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
That’s what the Football League Chairman, Alan Hardaker, said (not his exact words) about the European Cup in 1955 when he denied Chelsea the right to play in the inaugural competition.

The first final got 127,000 attendance at Hampden between Madrid and Frankfurt, and it soon became the biggest most prestigious club competition in the world.

I think this competition can become as big as the Champions League and International World Cup. We may look back at playing in the very first one as a great honour.

I do think there’s too much football. However, I think there’s mainly too much international football, with the quality of which being poor. Club football is miles better than international football. I’d rather watch a Club World Cup over an international World Cup, any day.
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They were trying to explain how to qualify for next world Cup on radio there's play offs for play off lol just to get there amazing
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
FIFA big wigs:
Ok boys, we need a way to shoehorn Liverpool and Manchester United into this tournament, any thoughts?

FIFA Lackies: Leave it with us boss.....
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I get wanting one of these 2 in there, but Cristiano Ronaldo is a bigger ticket draw than either of those. And ultimately that's all that seems to matter here given how they've dropped ticket prices.
 
Gorbachev said:
I think there is a risk of burnout so how Pep deals with it I don't know.

I do think however there will be stipulations where you can't have more than 3 players who have only had less than 5-10 caps this season play for example. Basically whatever it takes avoiding the European clubs playing loads of kids and reserves.

I think there will stipulations in our contract with FIFA that Haaland, Foden etc etc have to play so many minutes in a game, likely 45 mins.

There is too much money in this tournament alongside extortionate ticket prices for this competition to be treated like a set of friendlies and pre-season and if we don't meet requirements there will penalties that have to paid.

FIFA want this tournament to become the biggest tournament in club football, so I am expecting severe and stringent guidelines all clubs will have to abide by.
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Is that so our opponents get a head start?
 
Tbilisi said:
Correct.

Just looked on Citys website, 2 news articles about the CWC in the last 4 days.

City will be taking it seriously.
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100% they will and the players they’ll want to win it with it being a brand new competition that will probably only ever get bigger
 
Mcfc1.9.8.0 said:
100% they will and the players they’ll want to win it with it being a brand new competition that will probably only ever get bigger
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its not a new competiton, we are listed on FIFA as the current champions, which we are

all they have done is extend the numbers involved and created a new design for the trophy, but it is still what we played in last year
 
urban genie said:
its not a new competiton, we are listed on FIFA as the current champions, which we are

all they have done is extend the numbers involved and created a new design for the trophy, but it is still what we played in last year
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Suppose it’s like triggers broom. Extra teams different format new trophy and only every 4 years instead of every year
 
urban genie said:
its not a new competiton, we are listed on FIFA as the current champions, which we are

all they have done is extend the numbers involved and created a new design for the trophy, but it is still what we played in last year
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You forgot the biggest thing about it, the prize money. If this was worth a few million I wouldn’t be arsed.
 
I'm all in, hope we win it

I can see this surpassing International Football.

IF is boring as fuck, all nations are putting out teams of similar make up because of mass migration across the world.

Africa should have some of the strongest teams in world football but African players choose to play for European teams.
Fair enough, it's a career after all.

Throw in the passport checking nonsense, oh my great grandad bought a Tunnocks in 1960, that makes me eligible for Scotland:-)

Can't be arsed with it.

This tournament may give the powers that be a kick up the arse?

IF should be secondary to Club football (where the money is) but it's taking over.
 
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