The Coronavirus pandemic has dealt a huge blow to the economy. The football clubs have stopped getting earnings from matches and sponsorship fees. They are facing difficulties in paying their employees.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a politician who was a long-standing member of the European Parliament has predicted that the football players’ transfer prices will go down significantly. They will cost just a fraction of the amount they would have cost before the Coronavirus pandemic.
The transfer prices have gone up significantly in the last few years. PSG paid a record €222 million to bring Neymar from the Camp Nou. Nowadays teenagers cost around €100m, for example, Atletico’s Joao Felix. The prices of the players have become absurd.
Real Madrid is interested in bringing Kylian Mbappe to the Bernabeu. The transfer price could have gone up to €300m. But after this Coronavirus pandemic, Mbbape could cost only a €40m, surprisingly.
Daniel Cohn-Bendit told Ouest France: “This crisis will clean up the irrationality of professional sport. It’s like there was a nuclear attack and it had to be rebuilt, but on other grounds. Tomorrow, Mbappe will cost at most €35-40m and no longer €200m. And who can buy him?”
“There will be de facto regulation. Going even further on a salary cap could be necessary. It is a reorganisation that goes not only through the players’ salaries but also through the right to images and publicity. We have to break the system of managers, of those who do business.”
“A little more sobriety is enough for me. A little more sobriety and a little more equality would be a good start. Footballers will not play worse if they are paid less.”
If this thing happens, it will definitely prove to be a good thing in the long run. The transfer prices were going up day by day without any intention of coming down. So it was very much needed to bring down the transfer prices to normal rates again.
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