Does UEFA have the moral right to question FIFA money ethics after getting Qatar, Saudi money into Europe football?

It’s said that that one man’s meat is another’s poison.

That is very true right now regarding FIFA and UEFA.

They are engaged in a power tussle over which of them should have more authority in football, and UEFA, having lost in their messy skirmish over the controversial red card suspension of US World Cup star Folarin Balogun, now has the upper hand regarding FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s proposed $10bn deal with Joshua Kushner who is an in-law of the mercurial US President, Donald Trump.

The deal is regarded as dirty and that notion definitely has its merits.

Nevertheless, as dirty as it is, it’s not the first dirty deal in football and it will not be the last.

UEFA itself is guilty of such dirty deals because it allowed two countries that are said to be human rights abusers, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, to invest heavily into European football leagues.

It allowed LaLiga to be staging its Supercopa Espana in Saudi Arabia and also allows players from European leagues to be transferred in illogical, astronomical financial deals to Saudi even though the Saudi Pro League cannot be making that money back so that is a moral violation of UEFA’s own financial fair play ethics.

So, at the end of the day, what’s most amazing about the Kushner-FIFA deal is that the people really up in arms against it are also guilty of similar deals because if the bone of contention is that it will allow football decisions to be made by external bodies, that is the case already presently not just in football but every facet of life.

So the unhealthy saga just proves that one man’s meat is another’s poison indeed so choose your battles wisely.