Kylian Mbappe for just €40m? PSG star’s value could plummet due to the coronavirus, says French MEP

Striking value: Covid-19 could see Mbappe's valuation plummet
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Richard Parry19 April 2020

PSG and France star Kylian Mbappe's valuation could drop to as little as €40million because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to French MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit.

And Cohn-Bendit, the European MP for France, 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.

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“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.”

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