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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
If we're going to victim blame then the majority of the blame is on Bayern for taking this waste of a tournament seriously. Yeah I know there was a lot of that delicious Saudi blood money available and it's hard to resist, but besides the money itself absolutely no one cares about this event on a serious level. If Man City didn't choke (throw?) their match we'd have four European teams in the final four and we'd be hearing how boring and predictable this has been.
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Any new tournament is hard to start especially ever 4 years. The first world cup was a throwaway, England didn't even enter until 1950.
The issue here is going from the original format of 7 teams to 32 and hosting it in the US. Total cash grab. We don't need to see 4 Asian teams and 4 African teams and 4 CONCACAF teams and we don't need Salzberg (sorry devo). In fact, it used to be just two teams, europe and south american would have the international cup, then increased to 7.
The most you should have is 16 teams, maybe even 12 for the first one.
The 4 european champs, the best 2 south american, the best one each of Africa, Asia, CONCACAF and Oceania. The hosts and a wildcard, maybe a qualifier of some sort.
4 groups of 3, group winners go to semifinals, final and done.