Do you wish Barca played in 2025 FIFA Club World Cup?

[Porque]

Forums are a generational thing. The generation below are discussing on reddit, and the one under that on braindead platforms like TokTik.

 

[FC B]

Money aside it's a useless friendly tournament, so no.

 

[malvolio]

Clubs do cash grab friendly tournaments in Asia and the US anyway. So yeah, it's bad that we didn't get the purse for this one.

 

[Horatio]

Clubs do cash grab friendly tournaments in Asia and the US anyway. So yeah, it's bad that we didn't get the purse for this one.

The situation here is a bit different. In those instances you mentioned Barca would likely play B teams.

Forum believes we would take this tournament too serious and start fielding strongest XI and key players not getting holiday rest.

 

[draconifire]

The money is Huge.
But if we cant play B-team and do 10 subs each match its not worth the no rest.
Every other seson we have either World Cup or Euros. So lets not make it even more diffcult for the players.

 

[Porque]

Euro teams are playing so far in pre-season mode.

Logical move for 2029 edition would be to move the tournament into the pre-season window before seasons start so clubs have had the Summer to rest their players and Euro clubs can (a) play the initial games against the shitters as part of their pre-seasons and then be fully match fit for the finals portion and then lead into the national leagues.

I mean they won't because they will probably want to do the tournament in America again for the money, but logically, this is a better way.

 

[TheStig]

Next one will surely be in Saudi, the CWC is their project.

 

[Porque]

I read FIFA want to repeat it in US to build soccer, err football there. While Spain/MarocChop expected it to be there because of the World Cup.

Saudi probably get a Winter edition before their World Cup I guess.

 

[TheStig]

I think the first one is in the USA that it won't have a bigger backlash, the next ones will be in Saudi, they finance the whole competition, it makes sense that they host it too. I don't care really, hope we never qualify.

 

[jamrock]

Stunning defeat for @Joan has he come to find out 67% of posters here are Xavi "fanboys" 😂 😂.

Or

Maybe they just got common sense.

They never learn to never challenge yah boy

 

[Maradona37]

As I said can see both sides of the argument. But I ultimately voted no, for two reasons:

From a Eurocentric POV, it's a pointless tournament (though as I said that could change with the benefit of hindsight);

Player welfare. I really feel for players having to play this much football. Yes I know a lot of them are pricks, some will mind more than others, and most of them are overpaid anyway. But they're still human beings not robots, and they must be shattered mentally and physically. They'll likely pay the price for this overload with aches, pains and injuries after their careers. I suppose the other side of things though is that medicine, recovery and stuff like that (and PEDS lol) is better than ever to combat the workload.

But overall my main reason for voting no is player welfare as well as more football diluting the quality and anticipation. Less is more.