World Cup 2030 and 2034

[Chris-NCL]

I think we'll find that the structure of world football will have changed beyond recognition by 2034.

Super Leagues are the way forward

I don’t think they are the way football should go forward, but I do think it’s heading that way.
At the very least, the Premier League will become a closed league, and the way Masters is running it, it will be sooner rather than later.

 

[Chris-NCL]

knob head on ssn kicking off because no vote for 2034 world cup
bit difficult when only one country in vote

There was a vote, the U.K. actually voted for both the ‘winners’.

 

[Lavinda Past]

I don’t think they are the way football should go forward, but I do think it’s heading that way.
At the very least, the Premier League will become a closed league, and the way Masters is running it, it will be sooner rather than later.

It will go that way because the current set ups (particularly in the PL) are nearing the point where they can't justify the amounts spent on wages, transfers etc, or charged to watch games.
The creation of a Super League in Europe will allow the top clubs to do whatever they want.
I dislike it as much as anyone else, but its been heading this way since 1992.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I predict this wont happen tbh..... Not voted for by all. Rich despotic countries getting it. EU and US not getting it.

Have you checked to see where it is being held in 2026?

 

[Chris-NCL]

It will go that way because the current set ups (particularly in the PL) are nearing the point where they can't justify the amounts spent on wages, transfers etc, or charged to watch games.
The creation of a Super League in Europe will allow the top clubs to do whatever they want.
I dislike it as much as anyone else, but its been heading this way since 1992.

The sad thing is, for the Premier League, we don’t need it.
There has been a study done which found that if the Premier League sold all the TV rights directly to the consumer word wide for £10 per month, then the revenue could balloon from the £3bn they get today, to £26bn, that’s per season.

Now I think there is some flaws in that assessment, but still, if we looked at different prices and, different customer levels etc, £10bn-£15bn per season is achievable.
Better still, if we gave every club in England an equal share (not just clubs, but football academies etc) which is estimated to be as high a 7,000, then that would equal just over £71k per club.

Let’s say we were able to get £15bn per season. We could give each Premier League club a basic £500m costing £10bn. With £1bn, each EFL club would get £13.88m, and with £500m each non-league club and other football related group would receive just over £72k.
The remaining £3.5bn could be split into rainy day funds for the Premier League, running costs, grants to football clubs for additional investment/infrastructure upgrades, merit payments, and possibly even a charity arm of the Premier League.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

It will go that way because the current set ups (particularly in the PL) are nearing the point where they can't justify the amounts spent on wages, transfers etc, or charged to watch games.
The creation of a Super League in Europe will allow the top clubs to do whatever they want.
I dislike it as much as anyone else, but its been heading this way since 1992.

In many respects i'm not unhappy that i'm in my eigth decade.

The direction of travel for the sport dos'nt look appealing for my generation.

The issues are too numerous to list.

Future generations will not appreciate our experiences and will accept their present as just the norm.

I'm happy to have seen City at their very worst and very best and to be the best and only team in Manchester,supreme above the rags.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Have you checked to see where it is being held in 2026?

no soomeone told me though so I take back 40% of what I said.

 

[East Level 2]

Baffling that England have never got a sniff of another World Cup. I guess we're about as popular as a fart in a lift with FIFA/UEFA.

We aren't popular with FIFA, possibly because we've called out their corruption, but had the Euros in 1996 and 2021 (delayed from 2020) and we've got them again in 2028 (shared with the rest of the British Isles).

 

[smevchenko]

Whilst I may be somewhat 'head in the sand' when it comes to Saudi and there merits of hosting such an event, the scale of some of the plans for the country are incredible! I would be surprised if they pull off anywhere close to half of what they say they will in time for 2034. The futuristic urban area of Neom for example which will have part of the 'The Line' situated there looks bonkers. One of the stadiums is planned to be on top of the linear city development that is supposed to one day reach 170km in length all at a height greater than the empire state building!! I believe they wanted a 5km section of this complete by 2030, but looking like that is already overambitious.

Whilst money will obviously be the driving force behind these decisions, perhaps human rights issues will be addressed beforehand and positive change will be made.

Having said all that, Western countries are hardly utopian places!

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I’m sure the Saudi’s are shitting themselves over this warning from the FA…..