KeanoMagicHat
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I think the level of club football is overrated, there are plenty of shite games in club football every single weekend as well. You just don't watch 4--5 every day. Also the WC group stages are going to be like some Championship games, because there are 32 teams in the tournament. Not every team is brilliant, as with any competition with this many teams. You wouldn't sit down to watch RB Salzburg and Dinamo Zagreb in the Champions League and declare it as the peak of football. No, you'd pick Man City playing Real Madrid as your example. If France vs Brazil, for example is a terrible game, then maybe you have a point.There are many obvious reasons why the WC is extremely underwhelming, most of them have already been mentioned in this thread, but here is a other less-talked-about aspect:
Club football level has gone up so high that watching national teams feels like watching Championship game. You cannot possibly expect that forced selection (by nationality) plus very limited training time together to produce teams anywhere at the level of EPL. Most people here watch EPL regularly, of course we find national teams football of much lower quality
Even if you believe the quality is this much worse, then have you considered that it's good that teams can't just spend 300 million to buy up all the best players in every position and that's actually better for football? If Brazil have a shite right-back, and Trent Alexander-Arnold is unhappy, that's Trent to Brazil, deal done. If you think Qatar project PSG's line-up of well-paid mercenaries vs Abu Dhabi project Man City line-up of well-paid mercenaries is better for football than players fighting every minute to be legends in their countries then I suppose good for you.
For example, It's actually soothing to know that Qatar can't buy a team that can play football, no matter how much money they have. Meanwhile the poorest country in the World Cup, Senegal, can still outplay Qatar (who have 29 times higher average wealth per citizen) even though by far their best player is injured.