Mohammed bin Salman is the ruler who has journalists sawed up. And we let people like that have so much money: that’s strange.
Elon Musk is the one who has expert opinions falsified so that an entire federal state is deserted for his profit, and he is also the one who presents himself as a great eco-visionary, while his business policy is destroying entire ecosystems.
And the executives of Nestlé are the ones who let half of Africa die of thirst so that their purse will fill up even more.
Why do you let them have so much money – just as strange.
But the solution is even stranger: because we don’t care who has which skeletons in the closet as long as we are not affected by the mess or even benefit from it (directly or indirectly).
Is this alleged offer to Mbappé madness to the power of 3?
Why, surely!
Is it – as is sometimes suggested here – the red line that destroys football?
No, no, and once again no!
Professional football has been far from any morality for decades. It’s just a line of business, and it hasn’t had anything to do with sport in the original sense for a long time.
Sporting competition would presuppose that the competition conditions are the same for everyone.
Which is not the case.
Polemical metaphor:
If the way to the current Champions League – group stage, for example. a hundred meter run, clubs like FC Bayern, Chelsea, Real etc. would start on the finish line, Young Boys Bern or Galatasaray on the starting line and Flora Tallinn or Swift Hesperingen two kilometers before the stadium.
And while the former wore the latest running shoes, the latter ran in worn-out adilettes.
Polemical metaphor end.
And like any business in this economic system, there is constant testing to see how far you can go and how clearly you can gain advantages without generating such severe negative consequences that it is no longer financially worthwhile.
To stand there and look forward to the Kane transfer to Bayern (with a volume of 150+ million euros), but to call the rumored Mbappé transfer the “death of football” cannot be surpassed in hypocrisy.
15 years ago you could have committed an entire Bundesliga team for the volume of the Kane transfer.
60 years ago maybe even a starting eleven for EVERY Bundesliga team.
And IN 20 years, the first league of the Congo (where it is estimated that half of the world’s cobalt reserves are suspected, which is why the Congo as a future super-rich state is not even that unlikely) will offer 15 billion so that Karl-Severin Hintermoser (the second but one Messi) will hire there.
And as long as we fans continue to buy jerseys, tickets and subscriptions, click on articles and follow the whole circus on Instagram, the spiral will continue to turn.
Do not condemn the actors who continue to turn the spiral of escalation and greed for profit within the capitalist logic.
Rather condemn our consumer behavior, which keeps this escalation screw running so excellently.