It’s not a secret by any means that Kylian Mbappe is one of Real Madrid’s top transfer targets in this summer’s transfer window, besides other top flight English league giants like Liverpool who also have their sights on the footballer.
The latest stunning revelation that comes as a devastating Tyson uppercut to the chin for the talented striker is that he could now actually be well worth a lot less, according to Cohn-Bendit, the European MP for France. Cohn-Bendit says that the striker who joined PSG for a whopping £165.7m in 2017, could now be worth just a fraction of that fee.
“After the coronavirus crisis is over, he [Mbappe] will not be worth more than 35 or 40 million [euros] rather than 200,” wrote Cohn-Bendit in his column for Ouest France.
“And who will be able to buy him?”
“This crisis will clean up the irrationality of professional sports. It is as if there had been a nuclear attack and everything has to be rebuilt, but at other bases.
“There will be de facto regulation and it will be necessary to go even further with a salary cap. It is a reorganisation that hits not only player salaries but also image rights and advertising. We have to break the system of agents, of those who do exorbitant business in football. I don’t think players will be worse because they are paid less.
“In the future, for example, football television contracts will have to put a percentage to the Olympic sport and that for amateurs.”
This disclosure is definitely food for thought and does not look altogether too ridiculous a prediction.
Looks like the Grim Reaper effect coming in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic is certainly slashing its merry way through all and sundry, wreaking pandemonium and total havoc through its path.