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To: Skwor

No. It’s about exactly what’s being said. Infantino secretly negotiated a deal to sell a big chunk of the World Cup to private equity for no good reason and kept it from the board, even though the board would have to approve it. Also the deal had a hard deadline (again, no good reason) of Sep 19th for the signing, and said deal still hadn’t been presented to them by the end of July. So it looks like there’s some poison pill in the deal that he was hoping the board wouldn’t have time to notice. The whole thing stinks.

And keep in mind CONCACAF (which includes America) and AFC (Asia and Australia) are aligned with UEFA on hating this deal.


5 posted on 08/06/2026 8:27:22 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu

And the Saudis or Dubai would have been the ones buying that equity.

No thanks.


7 posted on 08/06/2026 8:29:31 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: discostu

Fair enough, all seemed a bit muddled to me.


8 posted on 08/06/2026 8:31:26 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: discostu
AFC, CAF (Africa), OFC (Oceania) CONMEBOL (South America) are not for removing Infantino.
UEFA is not as all powerful as they think.
11 posted on 08/06/2026 2:00:50 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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