Arsene Wenger states the obvious

When discussing the Club World Cup, Arsene Wenger was recently quoted as saying, "If you make enquiries to all the clubs who were here then 100% of answers would be that they would want to do it again."

Yes, obviously. Because FIFA paid them millions of pounds for taking part! The winners will get around £90 million!

Take away the money, and I think you'll find that clubs' interest in the tournament will drop dramatically.

FIFA: "Would you like millions of pounds to take part in a series of glorified friendlies?"
Clubs: "Yes, please!"

Double figures

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.

Infantino deliberately distracts

"They criticize FIFA if the prices are too high, then they criticize FIFA if the prices are too low. Then they criticize FIFA if we make ticketing promotions with students. Students! When I was a student and I didn't have money, I would have loved FIFA to come to me and say: 'You want to come and watch a World Cup match?'"
...FIFA president Gianni Infantino

Gianni, people aren't criticizing FIFA for giving away tickets to students. People are using the fact that FIFA are giving away tickets to students to highlight that there is little interest in the Club World Cup.