As expected in recent weeks, the Professional Football League has announced the creation of its channel dedicated to the retransmission of Ligue 1 from the next school year. Faced with the expected disengagement of DAZN After a season only, and the refusal of Canal+ to return to the game as Maxime Saada said in recent days to The teamthe league therefore went to Plan B.
Arrived at the head of LFP Media in recent months to enhance French football and find solutions in a period of crisis, Nicolas de Tavernost has convinced the Ligue 1 clubs of the strategy he intended to set up despite certain reluctance. But the former boss of M6 Warned this week: the first two years should be difficult. Questioned by The ParisianPierre Ferracci, boss of Paris FC, expressed all his support for the 74 -year -old man. Even if its global analysis on the state of French football remains, for the time being, worrying.
He wishes a more equitable distribution of TV rights
After having blew up tirelessly for the return of Canal+broadcaster and historical partner of French football, Ferracci regrets that the conditions could not be met: “I have always called for a return from Canal +. But the conditions for an agreement are not met today. Canal does not want, laying down conditions that cannot be accepted. So there, we don't have too much choice. The path is not very open currently, I see it and regret it. I don't want to come back to the past. But I hope that we can find a satisfactory compromise for both parties by next year ”he said, believing that it would be “In the interest of Canal and French football.”
His other wish: a more equitable distribution of TV rights, under penalty of seeing the most modest clubs taken by the throat: “If I fear that there is breakage among the most modest clubs (due to the amount of very reduced TV rights)?” Yes, the difference will be very sensitive. And for all clubs. We at Paris FC, we have not yet made the calculations. But all the clubs have prepared for this fall. There will necessarily be one or two years difficult. This is why I hope that we will find a better balance in the distribution of TV rights. “ Make the product more attractive: this will be the stake of the League and clubs this season. “This work could have been done for a long time. There, we are forced to do it because it is ourselves who ensure the service. ” As a reminder, the LFP has set the price of its monthly subscription up to € 14.99, while a preferential rate should be offered at under 26 a little later, at € 9.99.
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