Senior Fifa Figures Criticize World Cup Plan

Fifa's secretary general Mattias Grafström, the No 2 to president Gianni Infantino, has called the failed World Cup private investment plan a "sad and reproachable series of events." forestarrow.help

Arsène Wenger, Fifa's chief of global development, issued a statement saying the project's withdrawal was "absolutely necessary and beyond question." Wenger had been publicly silent about the crisis until now, adding to the pressure on under-fire president Infantino.