It will bring in outside investors, open the doors to global money, enrich a handful of inside executives and, perhaps most outrageously of all, might even involve the Trump family. The plans by Fifa, the governing body that controls the World Cup, to sell a stake in the competition, have drawn predictably condemnation, not least

FIFA has a complex plan to sell chunks of its commercial rights to the World Cup to minority investors, including a firm run by Joshua Kushner, the brother of Jared Kushner.

The tournament could be tied even more closely to Donald Trump and his current administration.