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Would Celtic get invite to Qatar Dream Football League?

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FIFA Rangers newsThe Qatar Royal Family are planning to launch a Dream Football League next year that will involve 24 clubs from around the world.

It’s believed that advanced plans are already in place with 16 clubs being permanent members of the competition with the remaining eight being involved by invitation.

With it’s history and worldwide support Celtic would clearly be one of those clubs under consideration to take part.

A report in The Times today claims that participating clubs would receive £175m to take part with plans in place to create permanent bases for those clubs including stadiums, training complexes with offices and medical facilities.

The Qatar royal family have moved into football in a serious manner over the last few seasons and were controversially awarded the 2022 World Cup.

Hosting a Dream Football League every two years would be a clear threat to the Champions League and also the World Club Championship which FIFA have been trying to develop.

Plans for the competition will be unveiled next month but it’s likely that the tournament would be jointly staged in neighbouring gulf states including Dubai which is a long established footballing centre.

It’s likely that the balance of clubs taking part will be heavily weighed in favour of European clubs with Barcelona, Real Madrid and Manchester United having well established worldwide followings.

Celtic are likely to be among those clubs under consideration with the clubs profile sky high after the recent Champions League campaign.

For over a decade Celtic’s youth sides have been regular visitors to Qatar for youth tournaments where the players have met Diego Maradona and Pele.

There are bound to be lots of objections to such a tournament but as the Champions League proves money talks with the importance of that tournament relegating domestic cup competitions to an after thought for many teams.

UEFA and FIFA could ban clubs from taking part but are more likely to look for a slice of the action in order to give the tournament it’s backing- with the 2022 World Cup committed to Qatar their negotiating position is greatly weakened.

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  • Stevie says:

    Well at the moment we’re a top sixteen team in Europe, so we’ll have to maintain that status at least. Not to mention our support and good behaviour.

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  • paranoidandroid says:

    Can sevco come too? 😉

  • KevinBarry says:

    The tournament sounds great for the locals but dunno if I would fancy following the team to the Middle East. 50 degree heat and no alcohol? Sounds like my version of hell.

  • Kendo88 says:

    Bring it on! The Celts would be there. They would have to invite the no1 supported club on the planet!..How could they not! HH

  • mark says:

    Will chuckles let us go proberly according to him It’s his idea and he’s running it. Lawwell has missed the boat the huns will be making £100m a week lol HH

  • If there’s anything in this maybe Celtic or maybe not. I think I’d be against it. It sounds like an invitation tournament – this means it lacks sporting integrity. It’s bad enough with the imbalanced seeding system in the Champions League – despite their failure this season Manchester City will likely walk into the group stage next season.

    It’s high time that Celtic, Ajax, Anderlecht, Benfica, Basle and others started shouting louder about the way the Champions League is structured – demand that the seeding system is scrapped.

  • Chris says:

    Dont see it happening, this will just be a competition to make the rich clubs richer so i, personally, expect to see barca, real madrid, man utd, man city, chelsea, ac milan, juventus, bayern munich, dortmund, psg, marseille, porto, benfica and maybe a few clubs from eastern europe as well as clubs from other continents. As big as celtic are and despite how well we manage our money, because we arent rolling in it we wont be invited

  • wb1888 says:

    My son captain of the 1st Celtic youth team to visit Doha, and played in a tourment to open the Dome, and met Pele and Maradona, facilities are top class. Money talks and FIFA/UEFA, need to pay heed to the Qatar plans, first steps to global league?

  • williebhoy says:

    Think this is just a hoax, maybe someone hoping to put some pressure of UEFA to re-structure the CL.

    Can’t see club sides all jettisoning their domestic duties and getting players barred from National sides. Not to mention ignoring their own local fanbase for more money…a complete non-starter.

  • Cal MacKenzie says:

    This “League” doesn’t exist!!! Nor will it ever.
    The journalist who wrote the article in the British Press for The Times, Oliver Kay, lifted the whole story from French magazine Cashiers du Football. The same story has been on their website for days, but no the journalists behind it have admitted it as a total fabrication and a load of European journos are now ripping it right out of their British counterparts.
    The article was written as a sort of dig at PSG and the rest of the oil rich clubs as only one team can win the Champions League per season and these money rich clubs think they all have a divine right for it to be them.
    It’s totally false, has no source, will never happen and was written as a joke and a little dig mainly at billionaire funded Paris Saint Germain.

  • eoin says:

    Yea lets join a league run by human rights abusers,who hold a view thar women are not equal and religious minorities are persecuted so like a great plan

  • Jimbo102 says:

    Nothing to do with this story.
    Any of the GLASGOW BHOYS out there???
    What the hell has happened to the site???
    Hail hail

  • vino says:

    Celtic should be there.Celtic fans are the best in the world.HAIL HAIL

    • Kendo88 says:

      Better believe it pal! And it’s high we got out of this corrupt hell hole and played somewhere else..on to bigger and better things. Somewhere that befits the stature of our great club/culture. KTF ?

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