Ligue 1 president fires warning after Kylian Mbappe's sponsor refusal

Reims president Jean-Pierre Caillot has warned that a precedent should not be set by Kylian Mbappe's refusal to take part in sponsorship commitments.

The 23-year-old was embroiled in a row with the French Football Federation (FFF) last week after he declined to be involved with one of the federation's partners because he did not want his image associated with certain brands.

The sponsors in question were said to be unhappy that arguably the squad's biggest star refused to represent them.

Mbappe's representatives have long been in discussions with the FFF over his image rights and this latest incident has led to wider questions being asked about player sponsorship and commercialism.

'As an individual... he probably has ethical questions about some of them,' Reims chief Caillot told L'Equipe. 'Personally, I don't really have a positive opinion on that.

'When you arrive at a club, you know the rules. When you arrive in the France team, you also know the rules. I read in L'Equipe that he had signed the rules for internationals.

'Today that he has become a world star, he discovers he is embarrassed to go to certain operations, I do not condone it.'

When Caillot was asked whether other players could follow suit, he replied: 'It would be a pity. The example always comes from the greatest. So you have to be careful. I am not a giver of lessons, but I do not want it to come to that.'

Mbappe's image rights go exclusively towards charitable causes and the striker and his representatives believe that there are moral and ethical issues connected to some brands that the FFF are associated with.

His lawyer Delphine Verheyden told L'Equipe, as per Get Football News France, that the current arrangement between national team players and