Fifa to push ahead with consultation plan despite backlash and insists ‘nobody is selling football’

• Body responds after Uefa’s World Cup boycott threat

• Claims ‘process disrupted by incorrect media reports’

Fifa has responded to the threat of boycott from European nations with a statement saying that “nobody is selling football”, while blaming the media for disrupting its consultation process over controversial plans to sell chunks of the World Cup to US-based private investment.

After an emergency meeting on Thursday, Uefa member associations agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments, including World Cups, unless the proposal was abandoned entirely.