Gab Marcotti
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And if it is Arsenal, as most people expect it to be,
they would have played just two games to win that $2.3 million.
You know how much money they got from winning the UEFA Champions League for which they had to play 15 games last year?
Oh, you said similar amounts?
$1.5 million.
Wow, okay.
So they got one and a half times more from playing just these two games.
Now...
Is this FIFA really wanting to build it up at a Club World Cup, whatever else?
I don't know.
But again, context really, really matters.
If they do get the $2.3 million, that'll be nearly 10% of Arsenal's total revenue.
That's the level at which the women's game is right now financially.
So this is an enormous, enormous payday.
Karim Benzema, six months away from free agency at Al Ittihad Jewels.
I think it is weird in some ways.
And the other way I said from the start, man, I wasn't the only one.
This is completely unsustainable.
Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia are running a business or they want to turn it into a business.
You can only sustain losses for so long.