The government appoints a working group to help French football – Fil info – Ligue 1

The government will set up a working group to help French football, responding to the request of the Professional Football League (LFP) for emergency support from the state, said Jean-Michel Blanquer and Roxana Maracineanu Tuesday in a statement. “The ministers have undertaken to immediately set up a working group responsible for establishing a precise inventory of the financial situation of each club and for instructing the most relevant additional aid devices by type of club”, thus indicated Mr. Blanquer (Education, Youth and Sports), Ms. Maracineanu (Sports) and Alain Griset (TPE / PME).

Its president Vincent Labrune was received Tuesday with a delegation of club leaders, in which were Jean-Michel Aulas (Lyon), Laurent Nicollin (Montpellier), Loïc Fery (Lorient) and Pierre-Olivier Murat (Rodez, L2). “Aware of the urgency, the ministers have listened to the requests formulated by the clubs and have undertaken to examine them quickly,” the ministers said. This working group, which will be linked with Bercy, will study several avenues, a source close to the government told AFP. In particular, he will look at how “to adjust the system for supporting the fixed costs of companies” and see if it is possible to integrate the salaries ”of the players. The LFP presented “a dozen requests” which “are not intended to be added up, we added from the same source, and agree for losses” outside Mediapro “.

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