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pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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How does one stadium even cost £74 Bn, where did that number come from

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Concerned Citizen posted:

Good to see that the Qatari World Cup continues to drift as far away from what their actual bid promised as much as humanly possible. We're still on the floating air conditioners though, right?

Nah, those were the first to go

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Loving Africa Chaps posted:

No one wants to go through another round of bidding.


Give the 2022 world cup to:
- a nation with a strong footballing history
- a large number of existing high quality football stadiums
- a country that's not too hot

Send it home

World cup 2022 in England.


Then make it like eurovision so the country that wins has to host it

Good planning, get one last World Cup in England before it never returns again.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Teddles posted:

Did they actually say they'd make these

Yeah this was how they passed off saying it was going to be in the Summer which they said was going to happen as well.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Skinty McEdger posted:

It's not that Fifa are absolutely shamelessly corrupt, its how blatant they are with it.

Actually, it's the fact that they're going to get away with it.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Edmund Honda posted:

He submitted his report in September, Eckert's abbreviated summary was put out mid-November, so it can only be for the grave crime of saying the entire report should be made public.

Unless he said or did something in private that FIFA didn't like and that hasn't been reported.

If FIFA didn't like this hypothetical private thing, why wouldn't it have been reported?

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Jose posted:

I don't know why people think UEFA isn't as corrupt as FIFA

Football belongs to EnglandEurope.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Blue Star Error posted:

They need to find dirt to get them out of the running or we're going to end up with a middle eastern Prince as ruler of football

Prince Ali's have a history of being dishonest shits, but he's probably still better than the alternatives

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Dang, he shows off the emperors new clothes just once and thinks he can get away with anything

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Bovril Delight posted:

Itt a bunch of guys who are too young to really care about Joao

The dude was 100, what the gently caress do you want

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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vyelkin posted:

This would be good because no CONCACAF team would ever qualify for another World Cup

Costa Rica probably would be OK

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Video assistant ref. Basically some dude with a bunch of screens and a rewind button to tell the ref what happened.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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In news that is sure to shock everyone, Infantino worked with City and PSG back in 2014 to get them much lower punishments than they should have had, according to Football Leaks

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/gianni-infantino-worked-on-behalf-of-manchester-city-and-psg-a-1236418.html

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As UEFA General Secretary, Infantino Worked on Behalf of Gulf-Owned Clubs Manchester City and PSG

As general secretary of the European football association UEFA in 2014, Gianni Infantino intentionally circumvented the work of the body's internal control panels. This is revealed by documents provided to DER SPIEGEL by the whistleblower platform Football Leaks and shared by the newsmagazine with the international reporting group European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) and three other partners.

According to these documents, Infantino ensured that Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain, both owned by emirates in the Gulf, received only mild penalties for their massive violations of UEFA's Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules. These budgetary regulations stipulated that a club's deficit in the two seasons between 2011 and 2013 could only add up to a total of 45 million euros. UEFA investigators and independent auditors found, however, that PSG's deficit was 218 million euros and Man City's was 188 million euros. As a result of those violations, the two clubs potentially faced being banned from participation in the Champions League, the harshest penalty. The Qatari owners of PSG and the owners of Manchester City, who come from Abu Dhabi, tried to prevent such a penalty by exerting massive pressure on UEFA leadership.

The documents from Football Leaks show that Infantino, who is from Switzerland, fought on behalf of the clubs, despite being general secretary of the investigating association. During the ongoing FFP investigation, Infantino held secret meetings with club leaders from Paris and Manchester on multiple occasions, provided them with confidential details and proposed compromises that he was not authorized to offer. In a May 2, 2014, email to Manchester City Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Infantino sketched out suggestions for a settlement with the association. "You will see that I've sometimes chosen a wording which 'looks' more 'strong,'" Infantino wrote, making it clear that he was willing to massage certain passages. "Please read the document with this spirit." Of course, Infantino continued, the document was just between the two of them, which is to say, highly confidential.

In May 2014, the two clubs signed agreements with UEFA that hardly affected their bottom at all. A few days prior, Scottish economic expert Brian Quinn, who, as head of the FFP Investigatory Chamber, would have been in charge of the proceedings against the two clubs independent of UEFA leadership, resigned from his post. He believed the settlements were too lenient given the magnitude of the violations. In the years following the settlements, PSG and Manchester City together spent more than a billion euros on new Players.

Edit: And the response

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City response to Der Spiegel claims of FFP deal with Uefa: “We will not be providing any comment on out of context materials purportedly hacked or stolen from CFG + Man City personnel + associated people. The attempt to damage the Club’s reputation is organized and clear.”

pik_d fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Nov 2, 2018

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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https://twitter.com/realtalkmcfc/status/1058657473492598785

:thunk:

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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This would only be funnier if it were Serie A requesting this

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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https://twitter.com/StuBrennanMEN/status/1161311948941725696

https://twitter.com/SamLee/status/1161310218220900352

:toot:

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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For those wondering the fine is £314k. Less money than Alexis Sanchez earns in a week.

pik_d
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Tsaedje posted:

The unfunny aspect is that Chelsea will now almost certainly have their ban overturned

Why? They were done for a lot more individual breaches than City.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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https://twitter.com/FIFPro/status/1176222532208332802

No City players, more Real Madrid players than Liverpool players, Harard, this is insanity.

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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vyelkin posted:

lmao the world athletics championships are being held in doha right now and apparently all the stadiums are empty and it's a complete disaster

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/sep/30/doha-world-athletics-championships-crowds-iaaf

Legit surprised they didn't just have their slavesworkers fill the stands

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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fast cars loose anus posted:

Kerbal Space Program but you're building the flying Qatari stadium clouds

Hell, can those be made in KSP?

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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Gigi Galli posted:

I say this not to be insulting, but "only" a four hour drive is the most american thing to celebrate.

That said, I live 30 or so miles from one of the stadiums and it will also be a 4 hour drive.

The two closest host cities to me are 6-7 hours away by car. 4 hours sure would be nice

pik_d
Feb 24, 2006

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fast cars loose anus posted:

Yeah for all the complaints about Qatar, Houston, Miami, Dallas, and I'm sure several others in June and July will be hotter

It's OK, after the highly successful Qatar WC we know that we can just move it to winter any time we need.

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Feb 24, 2006

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Ah well, at least they were warned not to make such claims again

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