According to numerous reports, FIFA has decided to move the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to the winter months so that the games may be played outdoors. Qatar has blazingly hot summers, and FIFA decided the risk to the players and fans was too much to justify the tournament being held in summer.

So it’s looking like November and December 2022 will be the months of the World Cup, at least according to FIFA. Be prepared for a fight, though: There are going to be a lot of very, very angry parties at this decision.

Why? Well, by moving the World Cup to November and December, FIFA is cutting heavily into the season for the world’s biggest professional leagues — La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and the Barclays Premier League are the big names, but you can’t forget the pro leagues in Russia, Portugal, France, Greece, Scotland, China, India, Japan and many others. These leagues are all playing in November and December, and there is a LOT of money to be made in those two months, in TV rights deals, ticket sales, etc.

By moving the World Cup to the middle of those club seasons, FIFA is taking the top players away from those clubs, leading to a serious talent deficiency in those leagues. Some leagues may decide to alter their schedules, but that’s a logistical nightmare. If the leagues decide not to alter their schedules, they will be playing games with teams that are missing their best players, which will absolutely affect ratings. Besides: Who’s going to watch a Aston Villa game when England is on TV?

FIFA is extremely powerful and has a boatload of money, but they don’t pay the players the real money. The clubs do. And for FIFA to continue to provide its product of international games, it has to rely on the clubs being willing to relinquish their players to their countries’ teams. This is always an uneasy relationship — clubs invest millions upon millions in players and don’t want to see them injured playing for their home countries.

FIFA has managed to appeal to the players, mostly, by giving them massive tournaments with huge glory and the opportunity to represent their nations. The clubs allow the players to go because they want to keep players happy, mostly. But I promise you the clubs don’t love it; if it were up to them, the players wouldn’t be traveling all over the world to play for a different team in often poor field conditions.

Now, by moving their biggest tournament smack dab in the middle of club season, FIFA risks alienating these leagues and clubs even more. There is massive amounts of money in winning the Premier League or La Liga or the Bundesliga, and you can’t tell me the owners of Chelsea, Real Madrid, and Bayern Munich are going to be excited about losing a major percentage of their team during a club campaign.

FIFA wants to believe that everything will be fine, and believes they are powerful enough that the leagues and clubs will fall in line. This time, I’m not so sure. There’s too much money at stake, and these leagues are tired of being pushed around. I’m not sure how the conflict will take form — perhaps litigation, perhaps clubs refusing to release players — but a storm is coming. This uneasy truce between FIFA and club soccer will not last long.