Bayern Munich beating Auckland 10-0 in the Club World Cup kind of highlights the pointlessness of a Club World Cup. In all probability, pretty much every tournament will be won by a European team. Maybe a South American team might win an occasional tournament, but that's still not a 'world' cup. The standard of club football throughout the world is vastly different, so having a world cup of club football - with teams from every continent - will inevitably leads to a mismatch of standards.
If FIFA want to stick with the Club World Cup, then the next time they need to have a preliminary stage to avoid such massive mismatches happening again in future. You could have the top 24 teams automatically qualify for the group stages, and a further 16 teams play a preliminary stage to decide which 8 teams from the 16 make it through to the tournament proper.
That way amateur teams would still get the chance to play in the Club World Cup, but they would be playing teams a little closer to their own level. And that in turn would limit the possibility of extreme results like the 10-0 we saw today.
If FIFA want to stick with the Club World Cup, then the next time they need to have a preliminary stage to avoid such massive mismatches happening again in future. You could have the top 24 teams automatically qualify for the group stages, and a further 16 teams play a preliminary stage to decide which 8 teams from the 16 make it through to the tournament proper.
That way amateur teams would still get the chance to play in the Club World Cup, but they would be playing teams a little closer to their own level. And that in turn would limit the possibility of extreme results like the 10-0 we saw today.
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