India spent ₹650cr on Messi, AIFF budget only ₹50cr: Ranjit Bajaj

Minerva FC director Ranjit Bajaj flagged India's misplaced priorities on the podcast, noting AIFF's annual budget is just ₹50 crore. Yet a private organiser paid Lionel Messi ₹150 crore to merely wave at fans for 40 minutes across 4 cities. Indians, he said, spent over ₹650 crore in three days to watch a foreigner.