Gab Marcotti

We can put the team together.

Obviously, all it takes is the Iranian FA saying like, no, we're not going to the World Cup.

That could happen.

There's a lot of things that can happen.

I think like all of us, we hope for peace and that they can be there.

Yeah, it's not just several countries.

It's several big, wealthy European FAs.

Basically, okay, so if you're playing your games in the U.S., we've explained this before, FIFA normally, they negotiate to exempt you from taxes.

That hasn't happened in this World Cup.

You'd have to negotiate with individual states, and they all have different tax regimes and stuff like that.

On top of that, the prize money is up 50% compared to Qatar.

But guess what?

The teams are also up 50% compared to Qatar.

And there's this thing called inflation.

So obviously that certainly seeps away at it.

Another one is the cost in Qatar were actually really low for the teams because there was no travel.

No movement.

How can I say this nicely?

A lot of those hotels and training facilities were at pretty favorable rates.

Many times they were shared between different national teams.