Dave Powell
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715 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Aug
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You build the factory in Dublin, the workhouses, you give jobs to local community, all that, and then they bleed into politics and the whole thing becomes, you know, they effectively...
are they are beyond reproach um for a long time and that's kind of what fifa want to do with i mean because infinitino knows full well he's going to have to be reelected and he has a lot of people who are um would love to see him removed from his role um but if he's the man to be given enough federations an additional 30 million euros then he's going to um
there is those kind of chiefs there are going to have to weigh up you know what's the moral um what kind of moral standard do we take here do we take one whereby we need to infantino to go or do we take one where actually that money will go a long way and and that's ultimately what's important so
But the negatives is, I mean, continues to be that this is now an organisation which is almost a parody of itself.
I found the World Cup, some elements of it, just to be completely mind-blowing.
That would be... I mean, we had something, you know, we had the teaser to it in Qatar, didn't we, with his outburst around, today I feel this, that and the other.
And he just, he is not a man who is...
fit for office in my in my view you know because this now he has been preoccupied with growing revenues from the start and growing revenues is important for any um any organization so the same for uefa uefa knows every single time it comes around sephora needs to you know the the champions league has to be bigger it has to be bolder has to be better has to get eyes on it because the broad trust rights need to be strong but that's largely what
UEFA's predicated on is the kind of ability to generate money from its broadcast rights whereas FIFA's now is the commercial element of what they can do over and above just the World Cup the FIFA Club World Cup etc is makes it
it's kind of a dangerous beast now because you wonder how much influence is too much and if you're offering up slices this is just the start of you know I'm not bullish on what the future of elite football looks like not certainly from not from my own viewpoint of being someone that watches you know football where I can stand close to the pitch and you know my footballing experience
hasn't changed since I've been going to watch Chester from 93 to now.
yours will have to a greater degree than mine because that's the nature of the Premier League.
You know, you think about the money that flowed in the 90s, 2000 sort of changed and then 2010 saw major changes and we just, but over time we just accept and acknowledge that that is the way it is now for football but I think there is another few levels of what international football, I mean, I'm not an enormous fan of international football anyway, you know, I watch the World Cup when it's on but club football is,
is what I care about because that's where my affinity lies is for my locality and my place of birth etc and I imagine a lot of Liverpool fans feel similar to that but this is just feels like this is the thin end of the wedge
What makes me think is what some of these club owners must be looking at and thinking, okay, FIFA, you're going to have all this extra money swilling around to do this, that and the other.
At what point do a lot of the clubs, European clubs particularly, because that's where the bulk of international players are coming from,
combine and say we need to try and do something here to get compensation greater compensation than what we get so you pay us if you have no cost of sales put on this huge event you're making more money than ever um
and there's no kickback to us as clubs, you know, the risk is all on us, you know, because if our player gets an ACL or whatever, it's hugely impactful.
I wonder at what point, it won't be imminently because there'll be a lot of red tape to get through, I wonder at what point they say, no, we want compensation.
heavily for our assets who we pay every it seems to me we will eventually reach a point where the whole contract the relationship between clubs and international football um has to be rewritten because it's no longer like a you've been selected to represent your country congratulations it's the pinnacle of your um your footballing career because you've been recognized on the international stage it now becomes uh it is a you know the whole thing you're in you are
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