If we are going to compare the 2026 world cup with Qatar and compare the situation of both countries, the whole point about this world cup is about having much more potential than Qatar because especially in America we have more sports facilities and they invest even more than Qatar if they need.
I think it is not about investing as much as Qatar did, because nobody really needs to invest as much as they did, it was a stupid move to give the world cup to a nation that had to invest that much to be worthy of it, makes no sense at all. It is official that it was bribery that made Qatar win it, hell Fifa CEO ended up getting fired for accepting bribe, what else proof do we even need?
But, USA or Mexico or Canada do not need to spend this much, nobody should, they just need to maybe polish up a bit, like maybe 10-20 billion, but that is about it and nothing else is needed on top of that. And that is with all the added improvements, maybe not even that much if they do not want to do anything at all, they can just stay as it is and can still do it without a doubt.
Bribery is simple enough to explain all of this, there is no need to explain it some other way. I mean when we are talking about a lot of money spent though, which means that Fifa "may" have done the right thing, if USA said they would spend 200 billion, don't you think they wouldn't accept that?
Or if England said that, or France, or South Africa, or China? I mean whichever nation promised to spend that much money and did so much to just get world cup on their nation, I am pretty sure that Fifa would have to accept it. I know it was mostly bribery, but we can't say that there were anything lacking neither, it was definitely covering every need aside from some horrible cultural bans they put on some fans, which was definitely an issue.