Club World Cup - Summer 2025

Watched every Chelsea psg game apart from the 2am one those was the two best teams and psg just looked the better team till Chelsea played them of the park last night! PSG just couldn’t live with the pace of the Chelsea game and the pressing plus the defending without the ball then especially the transitions they did to score there goals! I bet if you looked at the whole tournament bet Chelsea was the team who’s scored the most goals in transition..
 
its a Barm said:
Well I wanted to win it and I still can't believe we got beat by Al-Hilal the camel herders that trophy was there for us to win.
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No, it never was :-) . Not this time around.


I really wish we had, though. A pucker trophy, needing as many games to win it as the old European Cup did.

Certainly won me over - and I didn't even want us to be there. Just like our early UCL exit this year, I really felt like we were missing out watching any match after we'd gone out.

This will be double-huge in 4 years' time. Seeing Chelsea with that shiny badge will hurt...
 
halfcenturyup said:
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.
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The UK media dinosaurs called it wrong as usual. The football was fantastic and the razzmatazz was a bit OTT. But it will grow into a major event. The UK press will be falling over themselves when LFC qualify for the next one.
 
its a Barm said:
Ffs it was ment tongue in cheek, but I suppose some only see the serious side of every post.
Sorry for any hurt feelings NOT
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I'm not hurt mate, I just think that it's a racist slur (tongue in cheek or not), made even worse by the fact that our own owners are from the same people you were insulting. Passing off an insult as a joke if you get pulled up on it is the oldest trick in the book. If you disagreed that's cool.
 
Manchester_lalala said:
considering how good we looked against Juventus
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It was great to put five past them, sure - but the telling stat was that they had two shots on target for their two goals.

Difficult to quantify, but it would be interesting to see stats ranking the quality of chances offered up by teams.

Looking back to, say, December - so many of the goals we conceded seemed almost inevitable from early on in the attacks. At least that's how it seemed to me.

I don't remember many unlucky goals, or deflections, or worldies.

I think that's why the other teams looked so comfortable biding their time and just waiting for the inevitable chances to arrive. And that's what we need to have addressed before the season kicks off.
 
Damanino said:
Chelseas ability to win trophies despite not having a fully settled side is incredible. their CL win in 2021 vs our side that was building towards it since long time while their squad was brand new at the time with Tuchel just taking over in January
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That's the secret, obviously - di Matteo had only been caretaker-manager since March when they won the UCL the first time...
 
halfcenturyup said:
No. Because it isn't true.
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FIFA desperately scrambling for £2bn of promised prize money, no TV companies touching the competition with a barge pole, the Saudis then pumping £2bn into DAZN, who then bid £2bn for the TV rights with no real competition, and the Saudis then get awarded the World Cup, is all a massive coincidence.
 
I enjoyed the tournament on the whole, bar our horrible defensive display against Hilal.
However… The Americanisation of the tournament was awful, the introduction of the players, the ‘countdown’ to KO, the timing of some games and the suspension of games for weather.
Another thing weird was the in tournament ‘transfer window’. The fact Chelsea could sign a player for £60m+ for the semi final and he scores both goals to secure their place in the final, is a bit strange and feels like playing ringers.
 
TheGhost said:
FIFA desperately scrambling for £2bn of promised prize money, no TV companies touching the competition with a barge pole, the Saudis then pumping £2bn into DAZN, who then bid £2bn for the TV rights with no real competition, and the Saudis then get awarded the World Cup, is all a massive coincidence.
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No, it's bollocks.

Firstly, because the rights were $1 billion, not $2 billion, and

Secondly, because the rights were awarded in December 2024 but the 2034 World Cup was awarded in October 2023.
 
The clash of competitive football and US TV style production made it strange to watch.

Overall I enjoyed it. Seeing competitive club games between different continents have an insight into how they play the game.

It will stay and adapt.

The UK laughed at the first ever international world cup. When the scousers are in the next one guaranteed it will be covered by both BBC/ITV with full blanket coverage.

Only FIFA can fuck it up and they have a track record of it. Wouldn't surprise me if they decide they follow world cups and they go for Saudi in November 2032.

South America or Europe should hold the next one I hope. A traditional country to stabilise the tournament.

Brazil would be phenomenal and add greater fan engagement.
 
dublinblue12 said:
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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What evidence do you have that the CWC was met with widespread criticism in the US? The crowds were massive, especially in the later stages. The football was mostly fantastic and much better than the international dross we see. Ok the cheese was OTT but please don’t believe what you read in the fake media.
 
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