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FIFA: Destroying Football Since 1904

glorygloryeze said:
Could it be that FIFA, or many of it's main execs (including Infantino) are actually broke?

Could this be an attempt at a quick 'bailout' for themselves or the organisation before a discovery of big debts to many existing corporates that deals have been struck with years ago?
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I read this morning that FIFA is sitting on reserves of $4 billion and that recently Infantino was boasting about how it 'earned' $15 billion in the last 4 years. One of the key questions is why Infantino thinks there is a need for private capital to support investment in a business that is already loaded and highly profitable.
 
glorygloryeze said:
If anything, you'd want to have a free-for-all re advertising and associated contracts each time a world cup comes along and not tie yourselves down to anything or anyone in future. Certainly not tying yourselves to the likes of Morgan Stanley etc.
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It was probably just a momentary brain fart, but for the record, Morgan Stanley are a completely different set of total bankers :)
 
glorygloryeze said:
On the surface, i'd agree.
But it's just so odd that they'd look to tie-in future revenue in the way they seem to be. Football (on the surface) is the golden goose that keeps laying each time a tournament comes around.
If anything, you'd want to have a free-for-all re advertising and associated contracts each time a world cup comes along and not tie yourselves down to anything or anyone in future. Certainly not tying yourselves to the likes of Morgan Stanley etc.

The only thing i see as an issue here asi that (like the Olympics) hosting a world cup is often now becoming more of a cost burden that outweighs the all the kudos/benefits and so the money FIFA are asking countries to put up they are saying no thanks and hence only mega cash-rich football newbies like Saudi (who want to use football as a vehicle for other things) or countries who want to share the costs are now stepping up to bid. And the less bidders the less FIFA can drive up the prices of being associated with the tournaments etc...hmmm...
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It doesn’t benefit FIFA in the long run. It benefits Infantino who would lead the private equity group and be handsomely paid to do so.
 
And a bit of levity to the topic

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What "level of support" ? FIFA members and his staff have rejected it.

"bring all the interested parties back together" who are they? This implies there have been some consultations yet FIFA members don't appear to have been involved.

What "shared interest in of OUR game" the money?

Just buying time while they figure out a less obvious way of doing it.

This will not go away while this corrupt man is involved, he has no shame.
 
K.D.D.D.D.Soc said:
What "level of support" ? FIFA members and his staff have rejected it.

"bring all the interested parties back together" who are they? This implies there have been some consultations yet FIFA members don't appear to have been involved.

What "shared interest in of OUR game" the money?

Just buying time while they figure out a less obvious way of doing it.

This will not go away while this corrupt man is involved, he has no shame.
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Support came from the African member associations, and I don't think the LatAm group published any statement either way?

His main focus now will be on prepping member associations to re-elect him next March, should there by any challenge to his position, which you would think there would have to be after this fiasco.
Once confirmed as President again, he can then get back to his corrupt activities.
 
Glenda's Legs said:
Support came from the African member associations, and I don't think the LatAm group published any statement either way?

His main focus now will be on prepping member associations to re-elect him next March, should there by any challenge to his position, which you would think there would have to be after this fiasco.
Once confirmed as President again, he can then get back to his corrupt activities.
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Do you know if the African or other members were consulted? It appears EUFA were not by their reaction.

I agree if he continues in his position the corruption will continue.
 
K.D.D.D.D.Soc said:
Do you know if the African or other members were consulted? It appears EUFA were not by their reaction.

I agree if he continues in his position the corruption will continue.
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No it seems that there was no consultation with any of the associations.
But the couple of interviews I heard with reps from the Africa FAs were definitely supportive. (Apologies as I can see I implied there had been something official from them).
 
Glenda's Legs said:
No it seems that there was no consultation with any of the associations.
But the couple of interviews I heard with reps from the Africa FAs were definitely supportive. (Apologies as I can see I implied there had been something official from them).
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Probably the guys who heard $40m and started planning a bigger swimming pool and a few new luxury cars for the family.
 

UEFA welcomes FIFA’s withdrawal of plans to sell a stake in the World Cup​


UEFA welcomes FIFA’s decision to withdraw its plan to sell a stake in its competitions – including the World Cup – into private hands.

The proposal was unanimously rejected by UEFA’s national associations and by many other federations and confederations of all sizes around the world, whose job it is to protect football.

UEFA thanks all the fans, leagues, clubs, players, individuals, associations and confederations that opposed the scheme, alongside the many Prime Ministers, Heads of State and commentators who have demonstrated to the FIFA President that football is not for sale.

We cannot keep going on like this with secret schemes on fast track timescales, cooked up by faceless individuals and of dubious benefit to the game. We must identify those responsible and hold them to account.

It is right that, in the coming days and weeks, UEFA will work with its associations and in close cooperation with other confederations to reflect on how this happened and devise a plan to make sure that it cannot occur again. That review should be thorough and fundamental. No option should be off the table. The current FIFA leadership has not only lost UEFA’s confidence but also that of many other members of the football family.

When Gianni Infantino asked for the trust and the votes of FIFA’s Member Associations to elect him as their President in 2016, he said, “Of course we have to be transparent. I have been this in the last 15 years of my life in UEFA. You will have to play a part every day in the life of FIFA,” before telling the assembled stakeholders, “The money of FIFA is your money. It’s not the money of the FIFA President. It’s your money. You are the national associations and the money of FIFA has to serve for the development of football and not for anything else.”

On both these promises, he has failed to deliver. The shabby, back room, opaque deal he hatched and tried to force through was anything but transparent.

And with reserves standing at over $5bn, he has also failed to use associations’ money for the benefit of the game.

UEFA will begin work immediately with partners and stakeholders all over the world and right across the game to propose a new way of distributing resources through the existing FIFA Forward programme.

We must start to use some of that money that is sat idle in FIFA’s bank account to deliver the kick start that the grassroots and the wider game need in each of the 211 countries of FIFA. But we don’t need to sell off the family silver to pay for it.

This is a victory for the whole game. But it must not be the end of the story. The proposal has gone. The task of rebuilding trust in FIFA has only just begun.
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UEFA welcomes FIFA’s withdrawal of plans to sell a stake in the World Cup

The proposal was unanimously rejected by UEFA’s national associations and by many other federations and confederations of all sizes around the world.
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