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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There's always more juice left in the squeeze.
There's a reason why he wants more teams in a World Cup to increase revenues, increase eyeballs, increase the idea of a global competition where almost effectively removing that layer of the qualifiers, because everyone's going to qualify, everyone meaningful.
They want Italy to go to the World Cup.
They don't want to be sat at home doing nothing.
And then you've got the expansion of the FIFA Club World Cup during this time.
Everything just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and the money becomes more important as things go along.
But this is something we haven't seen before because it's effectively you're selling football because FIFA are there to be the moral arbiters of right and wrong and they are there to be the ultimate...
top of the table and it seems like, this is my own personal take, it seems like a complete abuse of power that this would be allowed to be forced through but it's done knowing that if you give the federations more money
then you will, the Confederation is more money, you will have a greater chance of them voting you in again.
We've seen this, look at the FIFA kind of bribe scandal which took place in the 2000s and 2010s when we had all sorts of things going on, you know, watches being sent, bribes being sent, a huge kind of web of deceit that
really dragged the FIFA name through the mud and led to Blatter being seen as this figure of kind of grotesque kind of excess.
I remember it was the comedian or... Throw in the pound.
Throw in the pound, no dear.
Now, looking back at what FIFA has become even since then, it seems unfathomable to think that anyone could be worse as a head of a football organisation than Sepp Blatter, but Infantino is giving it a right good go.
There is a lot of expertise that can be drawn from getting investors on board.
Same reason why we've talked about Liverpool's own investment situation.
If you bring in the right level of investors who have... This is all private equity funds we're talking about now as opposed to any wealthy individuals.
It gives you access to different routes of expertise or different connections.
But ultimately, it's just about raising funds for growth and expansion over and above what they already get.
And I think it's just going to be a... It's going to be like an aggressive play to really make sure... I think what they see... My view...
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