Adam Crafton

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3,592 appearances 27 recordings 6 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 17 Sep

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The Athletic FC Podcast · Is Infantino's exit now inevitable? · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

He'd been at Trump Tower the evening before with many of the member federation executives, with extended members of the Trump family.

And and and there were there were some whispers that week of something going on.

and nobody was quite sure what it was.

And and actually, like th through putting together part of that piece, what actually may have contributed in the end to it getting leaked is Gianni himself started saying a little bit too much about this thing that he hadn't announced.

And he'd started sort of suggesting to some of his wealthy friends and and connections over that weekend

what might what might be a fu.

And there's people who think that by extending the network of people who knew, that was one of the ways that that it that it got out.

I think in the end the plan was actu was actually to announce it last week, I think on Thursday or Friday.

In the end it obviously leaks out into the media on Tuesday.

And and that just once he lost control of the messaging

and lost control over how it was presented to his federations.

I think that made it almost dead on arrival, to be honest.

I think it was going to be uphill in any case.

I think whenever it was announced it may have it may have been killed.

But certainly the way it came out.

Because if you look at a lot of the criticism from the federations, it's as Matt says, they talk about

opacity and a lack of governance, a lack of process.

A lot of those criticisms wouldn't have really have been able to have been presented in quite the same way if he himself had presented it rather than it getting out in the media.

But there still would have been this argument of

You've drawn this all up in secret.

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