Infantino set to bow to Uefa and Concacaf on Fifa payouts
The Fifa president has signalled he will increase distributions from the organisation's $6bn reserves after pressure from two confederations, Guardian Sport reports.
Gianni Infantino looks ready to give ground to Uefa and Concacaf, who have been pressing Fifa to hand over more of its $6bn cash reserves to national associations, according to Guardian Sport.
The Fifa president set out his position in a letter sent on Monday to the presidents of all six confederations, with copies also going to members of the Fifa council.
In it, Infantino said he was willing to "support the greatest level of additional funding" for member federations.
He stopped short, however, of committing to the $10m-per-member figure that has been put forward as part of the demands, Guardian Sport reports.
Infantino also used the letter to mount what the paper describes as a fresh defence of Fifa's FFE scheme, which has failed.
Responding to the scale of the ambition behind the calls for greater funding, Infantino wrote that "the ambition is welcome".
The letter's circulation to the full Fifa council, rather than being confined to the confederation presidents themselves, points to the wider governance stakes attached to how Fifa's reserves are eventually distributed.
No final figure or timetable for a decision has been disclosed, and Guardian Sport's report gives no indication of when Fifa is expected to confirm how much additional funding will ultimately reach member associations.
The dispute over the reserves comes as Uefa and Concacaf continue to push Fifa to go further than the terms Infantino has so far been prepared to offer.