30 Jun 2025 09:59:47
Is anybody following the club world club, I am not following very keenly and wonder if people are really interested in this competition. Klopp has already said that it is the worst idea in football and almost feels like unnecessary, I would say this even if we were playing in it. What do others think of it?
30 Jun 2025 10:27:12
The idea of it from a rebalancing of football resource is brilliant. It's creating a way for non European, or oil, leagues to generate funds required to keep their academy products.
From a calendar perspective it is chaos. A player at the top level could get as little as 4 months off cumulatively over their entire 10yr+ career.
There needs to be a conversation about how to reduce matches; for me the league cup needs to go for a start.
30 Jun 2025 10:27:53
To prevent the infamous 0-0 draw with West Germany and Austria where they both qualified with a draw tournaments ie CL and Premier League play games with jeopardy all start at the same time. In World Cup next year what if a cheeky little thunderstorm causes a postponement for 2 hours surely that could hand teams a massive advantage in what result they need. Let alone the heat/ humidity. They are talking to Qatar apparently for a CWC which as we know would take place in Winter! Best team in the world? Finished 5th and 4th in the Prem. Not even the best team in their own league! So no value for me but maybe I`ll have chips with my salt. Money talks though COYG.
30 Jun 2025 17:07:18
Good points Alex and Sussex, the schedule definitely needs a rethinking to preserve player wellbeing.
30 Jun 2025 19:59:00
Useless tournament either countries that should be there and teams like Liverpool who should be there,
A load of money for City as If they need the 50 or 100m they will get.
Players need rest to ensure local leagues stay strong.
Too much useless football on TV - even worse the games aren’t even competitive. Who wants to see Chelsea beat a useless team 30 nil,
I’m not in favour of it.
30 Jun 2025 21:02:17
Are you sure Sy? You seemed so on the fence ;) COYG.
04 Jul 2025 01:03:26
If the tournament was starting now in place of preseason then there wouldn’t be any complaints about player welfare. What we’ll likely see for the European clubs is that they’ll perhaps only play 1-2 preseason games in the week or 2 running up to the start of the season, so it won’t be too much different from a normal year in terms of games played.