Master Tesfatsion
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 29 Jul
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Their clubs got $50 million, I believe it was, to participate in the Club World Cup.
At a certain point, FIFA's calling their bluff.
You can threaten as many times as you want to that you're going to boycott the World Cup and boycott the Club World Cup in all these FIFA moments, or are you just trying to use this to leverage this to try and maximize and ensure the fact that you're getting more leverage because you are...
You hold more weight in the governing international world than, say, the African countries, the South American countries, the Asian countries, et cetera, et cetera.
So it's like this duality of this whole situation.
As you talk about the Super League, it's very interesting you mention that because UEFA is talking about how they're trying to preserve the soul of football.
And everyone's going to point to the Super League as a result of that.
But what the Champions League did afterwards, they expanded into the Swiss model.
And this thought of playing too many games and the monetary purposes and all that stuff, they expanded the Champions League to play 64 more matches in the Swiss model, which in turn played more games, allowed for a more congested fixture run that the athletes ultimately had to endure.
And on the flip side of that,
generated more money that they can produce at the end of the day and that they can also in turn charge the broadcasting rights charge the marketing arms etc etc so then they can bring in more money for their 55 members so it's it's it's a very complex situation you wave is going to put a strong arm in this but at the end of the day you also have to keep in mind for every england that there is and england's in a great situation because they they turn out with 500 million pounds a year they're they're an outlier in this whole situation in fact it's ironic that we're talking about this right now as
The Community Shield, which always is what kicks off the English football season, is in two weeks, and typically it's played at Wembley Stadium.
This year it's played in Cardiff.
You want to know why, Dan?
Because the weekend is performing for five nights at Wembley Stadium, and they're going to make more money
from the weekend performing at Wembley Stadium, which the English FA owns and is one of their profitable arms that they have that brings in all the revenue that they generate, they're gonna make more money from those five nights that the weekend performs than they would from that community shoot, which is gonna be played now in Cardiff, Wales.
And this is the only time that's ever happened without a scheduling conflict, whether that was the European Women's Euros or whether that was the London Olympics or the simple fact of construction that was going on at Wembley Stadium.
It's happening because they make more money from the weekend
than they would from their own games.
So it is a very, if you want to call it hypocrisy, if you want to call it ironic, there's a lot that is very complex in this when you look at it from a European lens standpoint, because they have benefited more than anybody else has from private equity.
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