Club World Cup 2025 - Who’s going?

Just read a piece on the BBC website about this competition. It's the most contrived "competition" I've ever seen, teams 'selected' to take part rather than winning anything in particular to qualify, engineered to generate money every four years and nothing else. I get it that the clubs stand to make money but I'd love it if City and maybe a couple of other "big" teams declined to take part. It's been heading this way for a while but football is becoming an 'entertainment show' rather than a sport. I'd much rather watch a plucky lower league team play CIty in the FA Cup after winning their way through the rounds than Inter Miami play City because it's "box office' and Inter Miami have Messi.

They wrote that article because City are in it and not United or Liverpool.

You fell for it.
 
We'd better synchronise our singing sections and get them all together ;)

I'm looking forward to this cup, I'd go for this over the CL, it's new, it's going to be very big and historic in years to come & realistically even if we stay at the top of European football it could easily be 20 years before we get the chance to play in this again (there's a lot of us who could never see us in it again due to age).

It'll be brilliant to see fans from around the world following their teams rather than the international shite.
Well said. Those City fans moaning about us competing in the World Cup which is being broadcast free to air to billions across the globe can just keep their TV switched off. Being a City supporter is not compulsory.
 
So it’s not an Infantino money making racket then?
All competitions are about making money. I prefer this FiFA event to all the meaningless international matches. UEFA have mounted a negative media campaign to discredit this rival event. The media and their pals at LFC, MUFC, AFC have not qualified. The UK media are trying to manipulate English fans as usual, You don’t have to watch it.
 
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So it’s not an Infantino money making racket then?
Both statements can be true.

We are witnessing football eating itself. Personally I can’t take the Champions League seriously. One more tweak and change too many. When I grew up watching Liverpool, Villa and Forest win it, it was……you know….played between Champions. Not sure what this is coupled with Europa League and Conference.

I think we are watching football’s slow demise because there’s too many governing bodies. Now we have a FIFA club competition. It could be great, but something has to give.
 

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