MBAPPE CRISIS IN SPAIN: LALIGA MIGHT LOSE CHINA

According to Le Point and Diario AS's report; leaders at the top points of Spanish football are spending an intense shift by taking urgent action in order to prevent clubs from facing heavy economic penalties in upcoming periods due to Kylian Mbappé controversies breaking out in recent days. These unexpected controversies flaring up over the French player dragged the relations of the Spain LaLiga organization with China, considered one of its biggest markets in the international arena, to a highly critical point. Spanish football executives, feeling a huge concern about a massive hole opening in revenue items, took a decision to use diplomatic channels to the end so that commercial bridges built with a thousand efforts over the years are not destroyed. In this critical process, the LaLiga management relies especially on its good diplomatic relations with China and the solid-based agreements they signed in past years to ease rising tensions, eliminate misunderstandings, and secure commercial partnerships. However, the real issue scaring everyone very seriously draws attention as the shaking precedent the American basketball league NBA experienced, being boycotted uninterruptedly in the Chinese market for exactly 2.5 years. If a similar boycott wave spreads to Spanish football, it is foreseen that clubs will experience a massive economic ruin of billions of euros and there will be a giant collapse in broadcasting revenues. It is repeatedly emphasized that the development in the Chinese market, which is in the position of one of the two most important markets of Spanish football on a global scale together with the North American continent, is definitively not wanted to be put in danger. For this reason, it is clearly expressed that LaLiga officials are ready to make every sacrifice to protect their image in the Asian market by solving all crises with diplomatic courtesy and strategic moves.

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