Club World Cup - Summer 2025

pauls said:
They get nothing like the shit we get from the media and have took the piss with FFP, in their laborious attempts to nobble us by Masters and his cronies these have assembled a YOUNG superb squad under their very noses with a 27m fine by UEFA so far paid for by winning the CWC.
FFP my fuckin arse, depends who the club is, the only positive it's not a cartel club!
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It’s more than a fine they are under very stringent cost control rules for next three seasons which restrict their squad A costs to a zero balance
 
Damanino said:
I think qualification depends on CL performance actually. if you win it like PSG this year you qualify but if no English sides wins next 3x CL seasons, then the two highest rated English will qualify for example how it happened with Germany where Bayern or Dortmund havent won CL in 2021, 2022,2023, 2024 but those two clubs were highest rated German clubs based on their CL results.
I dont think EL or Conference matters its very much an elitist ranking with only CL performance included. club like Man United basically have no chance this way hahaha...

as 24/25 is the first season that is checked we currently behind Arsenal, Villa, Liverpool in this ranking given we didnt even make last 16
if we dont make some deep CL runs while Arse and Liverpool does or just enough to stay ahead of us we wont be in the next CWC.

or Pep can just win one of next 3 CLs and then its sorted.

having said that Infantiono can easily change the format in 4 years time, much of it depends if he can get the Saudis again to back it again at this level financially. there was some odd Saudi bankrolling of DAZN that made the prizes so high in the end, without that the European mega clubs would have not given a shit to it to this extent like if the prizes are what the old CWC were which we won and got something like 5m USD total. now we got 40m GBP for beating Wydad, Al Ain, Juventus and losing to Al
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Corky said:
If City had won in 2021 I don't think Chelsea qualify either, as they would be have had less match and competition points in the qualification table, they finished 3 above Liverpool so it would have been crucial.
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So the decision to play no DM vs Chelsea scuppered the inclusion of dippers in this tournament?
Now that is some long-game tactics right there!!
 
Not arsed about the actual tournament, just pissed off that we could have got more prize money towards transfers, and how much more productive Palmer is than any of our attacking midfielders.
 
mosssideblue said:
Why, they thoroughly deserved to win. The only joke was the American spin on hosting the tournament
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I was being sarcastic. Satirising the views of people who believed the press narratives (million empty seats and all that bullshit).

As far as I can tell, the tournament had some problems (what a surprise) but was a success on the whole.
 
They fucked up hosting the first tournament that was already being met with widespread critisim and contempt in the USA, where extra cheese and Donald Trump was added. Personally I hope City turn down future invitations or at least only send the kids it was farcical, and I was actually looking forward to it
 
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