Jonathan Wilson

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963 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 4d ago

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It's going to be really costly for these reasons.

But if we do have this 80,000 capacity stadium, we believe we can fill it for these games.

It'll make this profit.

And here's the economic case for it.

But we just need the startup cash.

And FIFA can go, yeah, there you are.

It's not a loan.

It's cash to build a stadium.

And that's a very good thing.

Football should be doing that.

Why do you need to take that money from private investors and sell off future revenues, which is going to make it harder to do that in the future?

But there's also this other point, which is, at least notionally at the minute, FIFA is running the World Cup for the good of a game.

Whatever that means, we can argue about that.

If you have private equity buys 21%, they only have one motive, which is make a profit.

Now, at what point do those investors say,

You know what, we've been looking at the figures and Curacao doesn't make us that much money.

Cap Verde, not really an economic case having Cap Verde in the World Cup.

Have we thought of giving that place to China or India?

And if your motive is purely profit, what stops that happening?

And how then is that sport as we know it?

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