Dave Powell
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715 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Aug
Dave Powell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But this element of selling a portion of...
FIFA to private equity to raise funds.
So they're going to create this new kind of shell company.
The idea being to kick back money into federations, but also to pull the commercial revenues and the resource and to pull more money in from different places.
Do some elements of that make sense?
Yeah.
I mean, like anything, FIFA has become a business, but because they are in the events business.
There is the international football, I find, such a curious thing because there is no... It's the best business model in the world because there's no cost to sales, effectively.
You put on the World Cup, which the countries themselves pay for.
They build the stadia.
They do all of that.
The players who are the stars of the show, you don't have to pay them.
You pay them limited.
The cost of sales isn't much at all.
They rake in an absolute fortune from having the eyes of the world on this particular event for a period of time.
And I think the commercial success of the 2026 World Cup was the most kind of commercially aggressive I think we've ever seen.
And, you know, obviously, it was in the home of capitalism, which is the US.
And it tapped into loads of different new commercial partners.
And it's been wildly successful from a financial point of view.
But it wants more.
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