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After Mediapro, it was Canal + which decided to return its shares of TV rights to the League. Maxime Saada, chairman of the group’s management board, announced in his interview with Figaro, want the LFP to quickly launch a new call for tenders. The Parisian recalls that in 2018, Saada valued the French championship at € 740 million. However, it had been sold € 1.16 billion to Mediapro and Canal +, but the leader of the encrypted channel believes that since then, the product of Ligue 1 has been degraded.
Extended telefoot? Which broadcaster?
According to The Parisian, only Canal + has come forward to recover the TV rights, a situation which would allow Vincent Bolloré’s group to set the price of Ligue 1 on its own. And since no one else has positioned itself immediately, Téléfoot, the channel of the Mediapro group, could continue to broadcast Ligue 1 beyond January 31 (although the Sino-Spanish group no longer has the rights in its possession) in order to avoid the black screen. “If the League asks Mediapro to continue, there will be a discussion to avoid a black screen,” says a source from Parisian. Another alternative proposed by Maxime Saada, and highlighted by Jean-Michel Aulas as being the ‘Spotify of football’: pay-per-view (the sale of individual matches); a system decried by a president of a Ligue 1 club because it “favors the big guys”.
The leaders announce the catastrophe
“There will be bankruptcy filings very quickly. Frankly, Canal will pay just enough to keep football alive. But barely,” said a president of a Ligue 1 club contacted by Le Parisien. “There will be breakage,” announces another leader.
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