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The Club World Club




degsy said:
Via the BBC, (yes I know)

Fifa is set to give more than $1bn in prize money to clubs participating in the Club World Cup as the European Club Association (ECA), negotiating on behalf of clubs in Europe including Chelsea and Manchester City, closes in on a deal.

Multiple sources have confirmed to BBC Sport that the 32 clubs involved, including 12 European clubs, will split what is anticipated to be the biggest prize in club football across a seven-match format.

It is partly based on the $1bn exclusive global TV deal agreed with sports streaming service DAZN in December.

The inaugural tournament, taking place in the United States, begins on 14 June and finishes with the final in New Jersey on 13 July.

On an individual club basis, those involved will receive a participation fee for entering the group stage and performance fees based on progression to later rounds.

like City and Chelsea need to share in $1+Bn prize pot!

Multiple senior sources have explained that Fifa and the ECA are also in talks about bringing in substantial solidarity payments for none participating Clubs which is expected to be followed by similar distributions for clubs in Africa, Asia and the Americas at a later date.

or as some may allegedly call it - Bribes, hush money and sweeteners!

"The Fifa Club World Cup will not only be the pinnacle of club football, but also a vivid demonstration of solidarity that will benefit clubs at large to a scale that no other competition has ever done," said Fifa president Gianni Infantino.

Yeah right

"All revenue generated by the tournament will be distributed to the participating clubs, and via club solidarity across the world, as Fifa will not keep a single dollar.
Fifa's reserves, which are there for global development, will remain untouched.

(We still got Loadsamoney)

player burnout?? - nah, didnt think so
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There’s been some serious spending already by a number of top teams that you would have thought would have been already leveraged / compromised to the tits.

I listened to documentary on YouTube by Alfie Potts Harmer and he went into detail on the financial rewards for the world club cup. As you could probably guess, it’s basically just another way the status quo can be perpetuated with the prize money of 1 billion to be split between various teams.

Apparently….. the prize money has been financed by, at FIFAs request, the Saudi PIF who have given DAZN TV (who have been making losses year on year) 1 billion and they have, in turn, then paid FIFA 1 billion to show the games.

This will obviously allow for more breathing space for some of those top teams when signing players as well as padding out revenues etc. For example, the New Zealand part time team who got drilled 10 by Bayern are getting £6m which in a part time league with an average salary of £70 a week is going to reduce competition significantly.
 

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