I’m all for it, and I hope City and Chelsea reach the final, playing their best teams for 90 mins, game in, game out. I’m particularly all for the impact this will have on their domestic season. FIFA doing the lords work here, as long as they have City and Chelsea….English football’s two biggest cheats….as the representatives of the PL. For such a corrupt, greedy money grab, there is something deliciously apt about those two being the English two that take part.
It’s clear that most clubs, at least the big clubs, have no interest in this at a manager and player level. And why would they? It’s an absurdity that endangers their regular season. Owners, of course, see the cash. This will all escalate quickly once we get an inevitable injury to a big player. Just imagine the reaction if an Mbappe or Haaland tears an ACL at this shambles of a tournament, playing against the Pyongyang Pirates or Washington Wizards.
Complete joke of a tournament, but you feel it’ll be a success now that PIF are buying into Dazn and Dazn are suddenly bidding $1bn for the free to air rights to watch Flamengo pump Al-Titty 12-0 on a Wednesday afternoon in the middle of summer. A deal which I think every savvy business minded person will agree makes perfect sense for a company losing around a billion a year. There’s absolutely nothing fishy going on here.
