Tbilisi
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Agree, I cant wait for Fridays draw. At my age I may never get the chance to go again.FIFA have told the clubs involved they will each receive $Xm for competing, and additional for winning games, and progressing. It will be very lucrative and worthwhile which is why the clubs are helping to promote it.
FIFA have something like $4b in cash reserves, so if they wanted to, they could completely underwrite the competition.
However, ticket sales, sponsorship, and eventual broadcast deals will mean they won't need to. FIFA just won't make as much money as they were expecting for this iteration, but they won't lose any.
It's happening and we're part of it.
I think that the league is gone now and maybe we might be out the CL early so the number of games will reduce in the normal season, all about top 4 now.
That said it shows how fractured football is when FIFA can put a tournament like this on but not have any balance for the league programme, crazy really.
On a separate note, I am going to now struggle to get a ticket via the club for this so wonder do people know how easy it will be to get tickets through FIFA and other channels?