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Mbappe’s value will not drop to €40m, claims Lille owner

Lille owner Gerard Lopez has rejected claims that the values of elite players such as Kylian Mbappe will not plummet following the coronavirus pandemic.

Football has been plunged into a state of uncertainty amid the Covid-19 outbreak, which has seen more than two million people infected worldwide since it began in December, including the loss of over 160,000 lives. As a result of the virus, leagues around Europe have stopped, prompting cashflow issues for clubs of all sizes.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a French politician, had suggested that as a result of the crisis, the worth of top footballers would plummet, with the veteran left-wing former MEP picking out Mbappe as a player who might “cost at most €35-40m”.