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”.