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Coronavirus crisis to end 'unhealthy' spending in football - Rummenigge

Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (R) seen with Hoffenheim owner Dietmar Hopp [COURTESY]

The crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic will stop the "unhealthy" inflation of player wages and transfer fees in football, Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge wrote in an editorial published on Thursday.

"With every crisis comes an opportunity," Rummenigge noted in Bayern's own club magazine. "For a long time we have seen unhealthy amounts of money paid in wages and transfer fees. The coronavirus and the crisis it is causing will at least put an end to this idea of 'always more, everything more expensive and quicker than before'."

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