By having only league champions involved, the tournament will look like the World Club championship where champions are selected from each continent. While the English, German, Italian, French, Dutch and perhaps Portuguese leagues boast known teams, the other leagues are someways behind. We also have to bear in mind that it is not down to just the football now. You have to consider the revenue involved. Why doesn't the World Club Championship draw that much attention? Because there are a whole lot of unknown or unfancied teams playing. By having on the champion from each nation play, you are limiting the amount of people who will watch it on tv.

This post has been edited by Duke Red: Jan 30 2007, 03:16 PM

But that is already happening. Clubs already have scouts that scour the planet for existing talent and they also setup academies in other countries to look for youth.

Why not? By playing well supported team, they stand to earn millions in revenue generated from television viewership. In fact smaller teams often prefer to meet the big boys because of this.

It is the same anywhere in the world actually. When a match is aired live, both clubs earn a cut from the television revenue generated. If crappy team like Derry City met a premiership giant, chances of the game being aired live increases and thus they are in for a windfall.