Enzo Maresca and Pep Guardiola
Chelsea and Manchester City are set to earn some huge prize money from the Club World Cup
Manchester City and Chelsea could bank up to £60million for their participation in the revamped Club World Cup after FIFA agreed a bumper broadcast rights deal with DAZN.
City and Chelsea are the only two Premier League clubs to have qualified for the tournament due to their Champions League victories in 2023 and 2021 respectively. The competition has been expanded from seven teams to 32 this year and is set to take place in June and July next year.
City have been drawn in Group G alongside Italian club Juventus, Morocco's Wydad AC and Al Ain of the United Arab Emirates. Chelsea, meanwhile, will take on Brazilian side Flamengo, Mexico's Club Leon and Esperance Sportive of Tunisia after being drawn in Group D.
And according to a report from the Daily Mail, City and Chelsea have been told they will earn between £50m and £60m for participating in the Club World Cup after FIFA signed a $1billion deal with streaming giant DAZN.
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It is claimed that the major European clubs will earn more broadcast money than other clubs, while the Football Association is set to benefit from a solidarity fund which will see the governing bodies from the countries of all 32 clubs involved bank some cash as well.
The report adds that clubs were informed of the financial rewards at a meeting held before the draw and could cause some issues for City and Chelsea's rivals, who 'will be fortunate to make around 10 per cent of £60m' from their overseas summer tours.
Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules have had a major impact on recent transfer windows and clubs could perceive City and Chelsea's cash injection as an unfair advantage. Both Nottingham Forest and Everton have been hit with points deductions for breaking FFP rules in recent seasons and other clubs have been forced to sell players in order to avoid their own breach.
Despite the bumper prize money on offer, City boss Pep Guardiola has been critical of the tournament amid concerns over player burnout. FIFA have introduced regulations requiring clubs to field their strongest teams "throughout the tournament", leaving Guardiola unhappy.
FIFA have revamped the Club World Cup ( Image: AFP via Getty Images)
"What is the strongest players? Which ones? FIFA will tell me for them which players are stronger than the other ones? I don't understand that," he fumed earlier this season. "We will go all the squad there.
"We don't go for one game, right? So I don't know who is the competition itself right now, but we're not going with 11 players, we're going with the whole squad. I don't understand how the selection of players is 'stronger' than other ones? I know!
"Stronger means in-form, and maybe the strongest for them is in really, really, really bad conditions! For many reasons; personal, physical, injuries, niggles, and we're going to play other ones. I'm not going to be told before the games which players are going to play, I will decide, for sure!"
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