Fifa's Castle Starting To Crumble?

I'd imagine they've spent spent the last three years investigating the needs they got from said wire. Not point in revealing themselves too early, nail the ****ers down before letting them know anything.

Responsibility is not a choice when head of the organisation. It's what he signed up for!

Standing down shouldn't get you out of the **** either.

 

I really hope social media gets hold of this and that football fans make a stand to boycott companies that still remain as sponsors to this cesspit of corruption.

 

Paragraph 3 shows what a deluded fcking snake he is that he honestly thinks ppl are going to buy the bullsh1t that somehow all of this corruption doesnt involve him.

But equally Page the previous paragraphs where he says that he had somehow raised these concerns himself to the justice depts....errrrrrrrrm didnt you (you fat slimy c*nt) publish a report just 6 months ago to say there was NO wrongdoing in the Qatar bid

Doesnt his bare faced lies just make ppl's blood boil. C*nt.

 

Aren't they sponsored by McDonalds?

 

It's going to be hard for you mate but you'll get through it

 

Not really, they have caused his downfall!

 

Someone on the thread yesterday quoted Fifa as having around £1.8billion in cash reserves, cash reserves for what?

Their constitution was based on them spreading their wealth to promote not only football but for educational, humanitarian and cultural purposes, they have the wealth and opportunity as an organisation to do that, particularly in the poorest nations in the world.

So what do they need to save their cash for, they've got a headquarters and offices dotted around the world, they've got employeees expenses boxed off, they've got passes to the best hotels in the world, first class travel, chauffeur driven limo's etc yet there's kids playing football in sewer ridden streets because of the lack of facilities that their own governments can't afford yet Blatter and Co will happily further bankrupt that nation if it puts a bid in to hold a Fifa major tournament.

Shower of self important scumbags.

 

I was thinking more of 'good luck stopping billions of people using that sponsors services' but I appreciate your covers

 

$1.5b as stated by JB with link...

Obviously won't be even remotely close to the $1.5b but if all income stopped, how much would Fifa need to continue operating for a year?

 

Of course, I agree completely. But we all know what sort of man Blatter is, and there's a big difference between "should" and "will".

 

I honestly don't think it will matter. By doing the wrong thing he will just make things worse for himself.

The only possibility is if he squeals on others but with him being the lynchpin behind it all, I can't see how that could work.

 

My view is this is the perfect time for a split.

I have thought for a long time the set up of fifa is such that real change is impossible which every minor nation having equal votes to super powers.. thus blatter only has to bribe the guy sitting in papua new guinea cos that guy knows nobody but blatter with look after him.

I think lets have the vote. lets see blatter re-elected then i really want to see the south america, north america and european nations stand up and walk out. Every nation that votes for him should then be not allowed join a new world organisation and let FIFA go to russia with Trinidad, botswana and tonga if they like.

I would like uefa and the americas to force the hand of the more reasonable asian countries to come with and set up a new football governing body and that way at least we might have a chance of seeing change.

At least if the places where the markets are have the biggest say then the countries where the tv money comes from get to decide who runs it.

And yeah probably would be corrupt and ignore the devleopming world but the reality check is thats whats done now.

We all know 2006 was a scandal. germany bought that world cup and then blatter moved in for 2010 to grease the wheels and give it to SA. My view is when he got away with that he got so brazen he's led to his own issues now was qatar 2022 and russia 2018 were both so obvious and so blatent. Even if the scubbag split the decisions up he might not have had such issues

 

This article is a couple of years old and pretty long, but well worth a read:

http://swissramble.blogspot.de/search/label/FIFA

 

Good question, they could always call in a firm to audit the organisation from the top downwards.

Bed and Breakfast instead of The Ritz
EasyJet instead of private jet
Local taxis instead of chauffeur driven limos
McDonalds instead of top restaurants

It'd be a start.

 

Now that proper enforcement authorities are involved, we can only hope that that's the case.

 

A long read you say? You know me so well

 

One extract (emphases added):

So how well has FIFA done in its attempt to emulate Mother Theresa? To be fair, they dedicated $794 million to the development of football in the latest four-year period. Indeed, they take great pains to highlight the fact that spending on development programmes in 2007-10 was 57 times greater than the $14 million in 1995-98. Impressive stuff, but I can’t help noting that total expenses have risen by $1.6 billion since the 2003-06 period with only $0.4 billion of this increase attributed to development.

It’s difficult to know how to react to this. On the one hand, there is no doubt that FIFA has spent a lot on development, but on the other hand, there is a feeling that it could have done a lot more with the funds available. Although there is no shortage of worthy-sounding projects, it does feel a little like this merely camouflages the relatively low investment and certainly not enough to support Blatter’s outlandish claims, “We resolved to instigate a range of projects designed to aid the entire African continent. Football is a force for change. For Africa, for the game, for the world.”

The snappily titled “Win in Africa with Africa” initiative is designed to leave the continent with a proper football legacy, including laying many artificial pitches, and has a hefty $71 million budget, but other projects seem to attract more scepticism. Any observer of last year’s World Cup could not have avoided “20 Centres for 2010”, a laudable project to build Football for Hope Centres in African communities, but the sad truth is that only four had been completed by 2010.
Then there’s the Goal programme ($120 million over four years), which was set up a year after Blatter first became president to finance development projects around the world. Again, no reasonable man could condemn its objectives, but this initiative is widely regarded as the means by which votes are secured in the presidential election.

Similarly, the Financial Assistance Programme provided $209 million to the member associations so that they may “finance development activities and football activities.” This is serious money for many of the poorer nations, but just in case they were feeling the pinch last year FIFA found another $144 million to make an extraordinary FAP payment ($5 million to each confederation and $550,000 to each member association). Blatter smilingly explained, “It is a gift, if we can say this.” While others might find different words to describe these payments, Blatter was unperturbed, “The whole family of football is happy.”

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Blatter has frequently declared that FIFA can make a difference, but I would suggest that it could have an even stronger impact if it cut back its own costs. After all, the organisation spends more on itself ($0.9 billion) than football development ($0.8 billion), if you include $0.7 billion operating expenses and $0.2 billion for “governance” (mainly congress and committees).

This will come as no surprise to those who have seen FIFA’s palatial new offices in Zurich, which cost around $200 million. Of course, we cannot say whether FIFA’s 387 employees are over-paid, as they do not publish details of their salaries, but what is clear is that they are handsomely rewarded for their efforts, as the annual wage bill of $65 million implies an average salary of $169,000 — an inflation-busting increase over 2009 of 23%.

That’s pretty good, but pales into insignificance next to the 56% increase achieved by the 24 members of the Executive Committee, who shared $33 million between them (an average of $1.3 million). How on earth can they incur so many costs? The Guardian gave a clue last year when they revealed that Executive Committee member Vitali Mutko had managed to claim expenses for five breakfasts a day during a 20-day trip to watch the Winter Olympics.

FIFA is classified as a non-profit organisation in Switzerland, though, as we have seen, it has a highly commercial outlook, e.g. it has its own official range of FIFA branded merchandise. Its status allows it to enjoy a tax-free lifestyle, though this does oblige it to spend its profits on fulfilling its football objectives. This is probably why they do not describe the surplus from the World Cup as profit, but as a “result” to be added to reserves to insulate the organisation from any unexpected events that may arise.

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Fair enough, but do they have to sit on quite so many reserves? From $76 million in 2003, they have risen every year since and now stand at $1.3 billion, a level FIFA describe as “solid”, while others might call it obscene. Franco Carraro, chairman of the internal audit committee, defended this amount, “While equity of over a billion dollars seems high, it is necessary as the financial risks exceed it many times over.”

 

True, but I also know you have plenty of time to kill in the bathroom.

 

Only 387 employees and they whisked away a total as much as that from the coffers for themselves.

 

Vitali Mutko claimed 5 breakfasts a day that deserves a chant of "Are you Gerrez in disguise"