Super agent Jorge Mendes says football's super rich owners have rescued the game.
Mendes believes football avoided financial collapse thanks to the likes of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and Manchester City's Sheikh Mansour.
He told AS: "There is a very big crisis in the world and these people saved football.
"We have to say thanks to Abramovich, Sheikh Mansour, PSG's Nasser Al-Khelaifi, Monaco's Dmitry Rybolovlev and Peter Lim, who is now at Valencia.
"Do you know how those clubs were before they arrived? Just ask the fans if they want to be how they were before they arrived, fighting, in some cases, to not go down."
