Bayern Munich sporting director calls Real Madrid move for Kylian Mbappe 'a nail in the football boat'

Bayern Munich sporting director Max Eberl has warned that football's boom cannot last forever, and that a market crash is on the way, while declaring Kylian Mbappe's move to Real Madrid play a role in the death of the game.

Eberl, who was installed this year as Bayern's sporting director, expressed his concern over the weekend that the emergence of Saudi Arabian football as a market force was bad news for the game in general.

“At some point the market will be saturated and Saudi Arabia will come. That does not give me a good feeling. I have to say that to be fair, but this is the market now. No club benefits from this. The players, the families, the agents, Everyone benefits, but not the clubs. In the past, at least the clubs have benefited, the money has been in the cycle and this will happen less and less,” Eberl explained to SDZ, as mentioned by Chain SER.

Meanwhile Mbappe he stayed in Europe, leaving one of the giants supported by the state for a club of his fans, such as Bayern. However, Eberl was not convinced that it was even for the best, considering that his deal with Los Blancos was problematic.

“You can always become more greedy with money, but everyone who is stingy with money will gradually become another nail in the coffin for football. We are talking about hundreds of millions. It is too much and at some point you have the feeling that the bubble it's going to explode.

Of course, Eberl is not alone in predicting that the football market bubble will burst. The growth of the sport continues to make it one of the richest industries in the world, but as the clubs of the price of the local fans from the game, the boom times could cause problems in the long term. The biggest clubs naturally feel that their attraction will pull against market forces, but the underlying infrastructure of the game could face damage.