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Club chairman Stan Kroenke will be disappointed that Arsenal have missed out on a qualification spot to the Club World Cup next season.that Fifa are “bending over backwards” to make their tournament as lucrative as possible for member clubs.
Arsenal crashed out of the Champions League this week after a 3-2 aggregate defeat to Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals. It means the North London outfit will not qualify for the newly formatted Club World Cup in the United States next season.suggest that each club competing in the tournament will earn a minimum of £43million just through qualification.
Maguire explained that Kroenke will be upset at the missed opportunity but insisted that Arsenal are still heading in the right direction.FIFA seem to be bending over backwards to try to make their Club World Cup competition as lucrative as possibleThey are effectively trying to blind people by the check in order to try and give the competition some credibility.
Join the Football Insider WhatsApp channel to get all our exclusives and the breaking transfer news FIRST.So from a pure bottom line point of view – and that’s exactly where Stan Kroenke comes from – it will be a disappointment.However, there is still progress being made and the club appears to be heading in the right direction.
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