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You're in your mid/late 50's being paid £6m+ a year (plus all the expenses, freebies etc) and already worth upwards of £15millon+. Just how much fking' money do you need?
Greedy cnts.
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 18:15 - Jul 30 with 2703 views
More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 17:57 - Jul 30 by BrianMcCarthy
There's a distinct possibility this is UEFA holding out for more money.
I don't think so Brian, the statement was unequivocal. Uefa would look ridiculous if they backed down for a few bob more. Thankfully they mean it, and a world cup without them is pretty worthless, who would invest billions in that.
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 18:16 - Jul 30 with 2698 views
More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 17:57 - Jul 30 by BrianMcCarthy
There's a distinct possibility this is UEFA holding out for more money.
I hope not as the money currently on offer is fk all to Europe/UEFA. It would need a massive increase to make it worthwhile and if that was to happen a) it would be obvious and b) other confederations would start asking for more.
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 18:19 - Jul 30 with 2664 views
1 Fifa ia meant to be a not for profit organisation, but sits in £3Bn reserves.
2 each World Cup makes significantly more money than the last - it will probably be worth far more in four years, and four years after that, than it is now.
So basically this is an Infantino (and Trump) money grab
That is a fantastic statement from UEFA. credit where credit is due, they’ve done what the vast majority of football supporters would want.
FIFA are all about screwing normal fans. Look what happened to ticket prices at the World Cup just gone.
When FIFA announced the ticket prices, UEFA were not happy, but they couldn’t get involved. So they announced that the majority of tickets for the Euros in 2028 would be capped at £30.
I’m not saying UEFA are angels, but they’ve played a blinder since the World Cup prices were announced.
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 18:51 - Jul 30 with 2502 views
More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 16:48 - Jul 30 by Northernr
It's an amazing statement from UEFA. Fck the corporate speak and just let the righteous anger of the footballing public pour out onto the page.
‘The moment external investors acquire ownership interests in FIFA competitions, football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. Investor expectations become a daily pressure. From that moment onwards, every decision on the international calendar, every decision on competition formats and every decision shaping the future of football is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders’.
This bit of the UEFA statement speaks perfectly for the ‘little guy’. In fact you could replace the footballing bits with the name of any typical privatised company (or company purchased by hostile takeover) and it would be equally as valid.
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 18:58 - Jul 30 with 2468 views
I don't know, folks. I hope ye're right, and that UEFA has found some morality.
I'll be wary. We've seen the fake-outrage play in politics before: they abhor this deal, then there are meetings, then they vote another deal through. All of them together.
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
FIFA’s next step will be to approach the big clubs with pots of Sovereign Wealth Fund money and an invite to the FIFA Euro League. This could be a long haul.
More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 18:58 - Jul 30 by BrianMcCarthy
I don't know, folks. I hope ye're right, and that UEFA has found some morality.
I'll be wary. We've seen the fake-outrage play in politics before: they abhor this deal, then there are meetings, then they vote another deal through. All of them together.
I agree. On the surface it’s a very good statement, but I’m going to wait and see how this plays out.
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 20:47 - Jul 30 with 2226 views
Cutting to the chase, Infantino has made a power play. His problem is that nearly all of the real power in football rests in Europe.
The logical conclusion is that Europe now exploits the opportunity to flex its muscles and create a new world football body in which it will never again be hostage to a rogue president who's gamed the system.
More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 20:47 - Jul 30 by kensalriser
Cutting to the chase, Infantino has made a power play. His problem is that nearly all of the real power in football rests in Europe.
The logical conclusion is that Europe now exploits the opportunity to flex its muscles and create a new world football body in which it will never again be hostage to a rogue president who's gamed the system.
Have you bothered to consult the rest of the world on that?
I'm not sure they would want a European owned game any more than they seem to want Infantino, Trump, and their cronies running it.
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 21:52 - Jul 30 with 2055 views
More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 18:58 - Jul 30 by BrianMcCarthy
I don't know, folks. I hope ye're right, and that UEFA has found some morality.
I'll be wary. We've seen the fake-outrage play in politics before: they abhor this deal, then there are meetings, then they vote another deal through. All of them together.
I think they will stick to their guns, but time will tell.
The easiest get out for all is this plan is abandoned and a new one comes in it's place that's very similar but billed differently of course.
But I think UEFA want to keep their power and might be concerned this would erode it - in the same way the Champions League has eroded domestic Cup competitions. So not on moral grounds, though some associations may feel that way, but as much or more so protecting themselves.
I suspect their is still a lot of genuine anger in UEFA nations re the overturned red card for the USA before the Belgium match, and aligned with ticket prices and now this it's hit a wall.
I would love it if UEFA and the South Americans left fully and teamed up, but as I said in an earlier post how to run a World football body without having equal votes is a tricky one. I suspect it might end up with some permanent members eg Top 5 Euro nations and some S American ones and then other voted in on a rotation - but who knows. Probably in 4 years it will be the same again, with a 64 team WC.
“FIFA’s unilateral actions appear to undermine the very foundations of continental football,” the Asian Football Confederation president Sheik Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa said in a letter to its 46 members of FIFA, warning of risks to their own competitions.
Sheik Salman, an ally to Infantino since losing the FIFA presidential election to him in 2016, wrote “such an initiative will not succeed without the support of all the confederations, which is not the case now.”
So that makes, at least, three of the six International Football Federations opposed to this end run by Infantino. No big footballing powers in the AFC but an awful lot of money for sure.
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 00:15 - Jul 31 with 1869 views
More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 21:52 - Jul 30 by OakR
I think they will stick to their guns, but time will tell.
The easiest get out for all is this plan is abandoned and a new one comes in it's place that's very similar but billed differently of course.
But I think UEFA want to keep their power and might be concerned this would erode it - in the same way the Champions League has eroded domestic Cup competitions. So not on moral grounds, though some associations may feel that way, but as much or more so protecting themselves.
I suspect their is still a lot of genuine anger in UEFA nations re the overturned red card for the USA before the Belgium match, and aligned with ticket prices and now this it's hit a wall.
I would love it if UEFA and the South Americans left fully and teamed up, but as I said in an earlier post how to run a World football body without having equal votes is a tricky one. I suspect it might end up with some permanent members eg Top 5 Euro nations and some S American ones and then other voted in on a rotation - but who knows. Probably in 4 years it will be the same again, with a 64 team WC.
To be fair when the European Super League idea fcked off, it did so permanently (for now)
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 00:51 - Jul 31 with 1834 views
Real Madrid appears to be the only major club openly pushing for this and the proposed format is different from the original proposal, but the idea has not gone away.
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 01:39 - Jul 31 with 1795 views
The world cup is the one part of football money and greed hasn't completely ruined yet.
If you forget the very questionable selection process of host nations and the selective use of refereeing and VAR to favour a certain team/player in the most recent one anyway.
You still can't buy a team, as the players have to come from your own country and that still, despite everything else, makes it purer than the financially doped leagues around the world and especially Europe.
A stand needs to be taken.
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 06:25 - Jul 31 with 1662 views
More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 18:51 - Jul 30 by FG_R
‘The moment external investors acquire ownership interests in FIFA competitions, football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. Investor expectations become a daily pressure. From that moment onwards, every decision on the international calendar, every decision on competition formats and every decision shaping the future of football is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders’.
This bit of the UEFA statement speaks perfectly for the ‘little guy’. In fact you could replace the footballing bits with the name of any typical privatised company (or company purchased by hostile takeover) and it would be equally as valid.
Yeah it is a great piece in a strong statement, but let's face it, UEFA has extended their competitions over the years not for the good of the game (wnose qualiry is threatened the more you make the players play), but for cash.
Like our "beloved" FA who sold our game to the Premier League and its big 6, they remain because those big clubs let them.
Is it just me who feels slightly uncomfortable supporting those terrible organisations in all of this even if FIFA is 100% wrong here?
More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 21:28 - Jul 30 by KensalT
Have you bothered to consult the rest of the world on that?
I'm not sure they would want a European owned game any more than they seem to want Infantino, Trump, and their cronies running it.
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We’re just exchanging opinions in an internet backwater, I’m not sure a global consultation exercise is really necessary!
It’s a simple analysis of where the power lies. It would be madness for Europe to cede any of its strength. Actually, it’s probably madness for any of the other associations to sign up to this as it’s essentially a carpetbagger move in which they’re selling their own futures.
On the ownership of the big European teams, I’m not sure that’s relevant. Those owners’ vested interest is with Europe and that’s what they’ll protect. In any event clubs don’t really have a direct say in this.
I think Infantino, drunk on power from his hobnobbing with Trump, has overplayed his hand and the likely conclusion is his exit. You think he hasn’t. Time will tell.
More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 11:14 - Jul 31 by kensalriser
We’re just exchanging opinions in an internet backwater, I’m not sure a global consultation exercise is really necessary!
It’s a simple analysis of where the power lies. It would be madness for Europe to cede any of its strength. Actually, it’s probably madness for any of the other associations to sign up to this as it’s essentially a carpetbagger move in which they’re selling their own futures.
On the ownership of the big European teams, I’m not sure that’s relevant. Those owners’ vested interest is with Europe and that’s what they’ll protect. In any event clubs don’t really have a direct say in this.
I think Infantino, drunk on power from his hobnobbing with Trump, has overplayed his hand and the likely conclusion is his exit. You think he hasn’t. Time will tell.
Agree with a lot of that.
Particularly the last paragraph. Infantino does appear to have shot his bolt.
Both Blatter and Infantino have sought to grow the game (and their own power base) globally. On the whole I think raising the standards of the global game is a good thing. The grubby politics of it I'm not so keen on.
Europe does have the greatest concentration of wealth and talent. If you give Europe more control over the global game they will look to ringfence that power in much the same way that the big European clubs have used financial regulation to strengthen their hold over the game while telling us it's to protect the little guys!
So on the whole I don't favour a global game with Europe calling all the shots.
That's not to say FIFA is fit for purpose, but what the alternative is I certainly don't know.
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 12:35 - Jul 31 with 1203 views
Infantino thinks himself equal to presidents, monarchs and other such-like leaders of countries.
He's not, he's in charge of an organisation that has a modest (and it is modest in global terms) $1.7billion revenue per annum. The company I work for has roughly a $13billion global revenue per annum and that's not even anywhere near the big hitters.
In the grand scheme of things, FIFA's revenue is peanuts but he thinks of himself as some almighty deity. It's fking demented and clearly too much time over the summer with Trump has warped his already pathetic mind.
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 12:58 - Jul 31 with 1170 views
More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 12:35 - Jul 31 by Juzzie
Infantino thinks himself equal to presidents, monarchs and other such-like leaders of countries.
He's not, he's in charge of an organisation that has a modest (and it is modest in global terms) $1.7billion revenue per annum. The company I work for has roughly a $13billion global revenue per annum and that's not even anywhere near the big hitters.
In the grand scheme of things, FIFA's revenue is peanuts but he thinks of himself as some almighty deity. It's fking demented and clearly too much time over the summer with Trump has warped his already pathetic mind.
This was the angle that I thought would get most of the smaller football federations onboard with Infantino's plan.
Admittedly the figures have been massaged in FIFA's favour but I thought greed would prevail.
"JP Morgan claims that Fifa is “undermonetized” but significantly makes comparisons with other sports leagues with the revenue figures based on club or franchise earnings, rather than with comparable governing bodies.
Fifa’s stated annual revenue of $3.6bn therefore compares unfavourably with the NFL’s compared revenue of $21.2bn, Major League Baseball’s $13.1bn and the NBA’s $12.5bn."
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More money...more, more, give me more.... the ever increasing greed in football on 13:15 - Jul 31 with 1123 views
"JP Morgan claims that Fifa is “undermonetized” but significantly makes comparisons with other sports leagues with the revenue figures based on club or franchise earnings, rather than with comparable governing bodies.
Fifa’s stated annual revenue of $3.6bn therefore compares unfavourably with the NFL’s compared revenue of $21.2bn, Major League Baseball’s $13.1bn and the NBA’s $12.5bn."
This is going down the route of the ever-popular 'Dynamic Pricing' model which simply serves to price pretty much most of us mere mortals out of being able to go to these sorts of events that was previously common place.
Might be able to do one or two a year but on a regular basis?.... forget it. Stay at home you peasants.....
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