World Cup 2030 and 2034

[RadcliffeRick]

It's the journalists that need to look out with these people going off past experiences. I wonder if they will take on a few suggestions??

 

[ninjamonkey]

10 years is a long time in football. They'll be massive changes long before then. The players will band together and demand less games soon enough. in a decades time they won't tolerate another mid-season winter world cup.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

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.

What I don’t understand is if you and other fans can see this, why can’t the so called experts and financial whizz kids holding office in the PL see it?
It’s a licence to print money!

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

What I don’t understand is if you and other fans can see this, why can’t the so called experts and financial whizz kids holding office in the PL see it?
It’s a licence to print money!

That's a very simplistic interpretation. It could result in huge inflation in fees, salaries and agents fees and could even bankrupt other leagues. Having one league so far ahead and sucking up all the TV money means the infrastructure of other leagues could suffer.

The super league was dreamt up by American financiers so already very wealthy owners of clubs could get even richer. It's domestic equivalent is not the solution to funding lower league grass roots football.