Nail In The Coffin: Bayern Munich director reacts to Mbappe’s Madrid move

Bayern Munich Sporting Director Max Eberl has issued a strong warning to football clubs over growth in the sport while reacting to Kylian Mbappe’s move to Real Madrid.

Mbappe joined Real Madrid on a free transfer after the expiration of his contract at Paris Saint-Germain. However, Max Eberl believes Mbappe’s move to the Spanish giant plays a role in the death of the game.

Eberl, who was installed this year as Bayern’s Sporting Director, voiced his concern over the weekend that the emergence of Saudi Arabian football as a market force was bad news for the game as a whole.

“At some point the market will be oversaturated and Saudi Arabia will come. That doesn’t give me a good feeling. I have to say that to be fair, but that’s the market right 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 benefitted, the money stayed in the cycle and that will happen less and less,” Eberl explained to SDZ, as quoted by Cadena SER.

Though Mbappe remained in Europe, Eberl believes his move to Real Madrid could be problematic.

“You can always become more greedy with money, but everyone who is greedy with money will gradually become nother 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 is going to burst.”

Bayern Munich are currently in a rebuilding process after failing to win a title last season. Thomas Tuchel was fired with Vincent Kompany recently announced as his replacement.