As confirmed yesterday, Kylian Mbappe ended up renewing with him Paris Saint-Germain until 2025 after having played with both the Parisian team and the real Madrid, which he has used simply to improve the conditions of his contract. The problem with all this does not lie with Kylian Mbappé, who sold himself as a soccer man in several interviews despite the fact that his main purpose was always to earn more money, but with both Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid and the world. of football in general.
Despite the fact that Kylian Mbappé is a young and talented player, a single footballer should not reach a value of 200 million euros. Similarly, a single player should not receive a ‘signing bonus’ of more than 100 million of euros, also charging 50 million per season, that is, 150 million over three years, which has been the agreement that the PSG has offered to convince him to stay.
The ‘Mbappé case’ leads to a very serious economic problem in football
Paris Saint-Germain have managed to retain Mbappé but, if you think carefully, they have had to spend about 300 million euros to stay with a single footballer. A completely poorly invested money, because no footballer, ever, can reach a similar value, and it is that the world of football, with a press that normalizes absolutely absurd prices, is going towards an economic drift that endangers the professionalism of this sport .
So and as Javier Tebas reported in his statement, it cannot be that teams with gigantic debts are allowed to continue paying huge amounts for signings while other clubs even have to sell their best players in order not to face said debts and comply with financial ‘fair play’. Mention in passing the enormous hypocrisy of the president of LaLiga, who speaks of PSG’s debt and his recent acts while he himself allows FC Barcelona to continue making signings with an even greater debt than that of the French team.
I have stated it on several occasions and I will continue to do so as a lover of this great sport that is football. This sport needs more players and fewer mercenaries, and that also happens because the prices of both transfers and salaries that the players receive are regularized, in addition to regulating the economic sphere and not allowing, under any circumstances, a team with debts can do and undo at will while the rest of the clubs are the ones that hold said debts and end up paying the piper.
Football, with more and more problems in the economic section, needs a change of course, as the ‘Mbappé case’ demonstrates, in which a single player has caused an economic disbandment for his own benefit, with the permission of the world of football in general, and this has been allowed without thinking about all the consequences that all of this may entail.
