Lukewarm response to Laporte's plan for Club World Cup

The proposed Club World Cup would be run at the expense of the Heineken Champions Cup

Bernard Laporte’s proposal for an annual Club World Cup to be run at the expense of the Heineken Champions Cup has received a lukewarm response in the Northern Hemisphere at least.

Laporte’s radical plan, revealed in French newspaper Midi Olympique, is for a 20-team tournament split into four pools involving the top four teams from each of the Guinness PRO14, English Premiership, and French Top14 alongside six Super Rugby participants and the champions from Japan and the United States to take place over a condensed period each summer except for World Cup years.