Jonathan Wilson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4d ago
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You want it now.
So you sell off future revenues, future profits to get money into the system now.
And that obviously benefits the current incumbents at FIFA and the various FAs.
And their logic guess would be, well, I'll take the money now.
And either they use it well for their federations, they invest in stadiums, they invest in refereeing courses, whatever.
A lot of FA is not particularly well-ordered, so maybe some of that money slips aside into pockets.
And then you leave your job in 10, 20 years, and it's for the next bloke down the line has to deal with the fact that, oh, hang on, we only actually own 79% of this thing.
Well, and he also hints at this point, FIFA have been very smart about using this argument really since the days of Havilland, that, ah, yeah, but it's easy for you in Western Europe, in wealthy Western Europe.
I'm aware the Irish Football Association is not a wealthy body, but you in wealthy Western Europe, of course you can afford to turn down $20 million or $40 million.
But think about, you know, Butan or Graham or, you know,
Gabon, think what they could do with this money.
Think of a stadium they could build, the coaching courses they could implement.
Yeah, I won't give it to them.
You've got the money.
You don't need the investment.
You've got it.
We've got these programs, the gold project, which is set up by St.
Blasio in 1998, the forward project, which is Infantino, so a follow-up for that.
And that's supposed to exist.
If you are a football association, you can write to FIFA and you can lay out, look, we need a new stadium.
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