>>149139986 (OP)They'll bend the rules again to let their latest donation-happy regime have the cup just like they have with Saudi Arabia
>set up rule that a certain amount of stadiums with the required capacity need to be built at the time of bid, in order to avoid another "Qatari slave workers" PR situation>pretty much means only Australia can present a valid bid for 2034>Australia had already been bidding for the 2022 and 2030 WCs and clearly would have the facilities as they are hosting the Olympics in 2032>FIFA retroactively set the "already existing stadiums at time of bidding" rule as applying for 2038 onwards>give a two hours window to submit bids, inform the saudi in advance, don't inform the aussies>oh wow only Saudi Arabia had time to submit a bid, that's crazy haha guess they'll get to host then :^)All it would take is China or Russia leaving a plump enveloppe on Gianni's desk for the rule to change again so they magically become elligible, or the UAE getting a new "arabic peninsula confederation" set up which would have never hosted a world cup and thus be elligible.
It's FIFA. Expect the bullshit rules to be bent and changed to accomodate whomever is footing the bills that day.
Best case scenario would be Australia moving back to the OFC so they can bid unopposed I guess.