FIFA president Gianni Infantino was hoping to create quite the interesting legacy with his plans to expand the routinely ignored Club World Cup tournament, but this summer's iteration of his project has been making the headlines for all the wrong reasons and it started long before the first scheduled games in the United States kicked off. Inter Miami's invitation to the tournament will be known by fans in the future as the Lionel Messi contract, with a self serving additional summer transfer window where Real Madrid paid Liverpool £10 million to release Trent Alexander-Arnold roughly 30 days earlier than he would have become a free agent, and Infantino himself appearing to hock the services of Cristiano Ronaldo around just so he could take part, it all very quickly began to get quite bizarre. The plight of New Zealand part timers Auckland City facing off against Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich soon became a fresh talking point on day one, and there had already been than an und...