![[Chroniques] MHSC: anatomy of a fall – EP1/5: Here and if we were going to walk around the precipice](https://euro.dayfr.com/article/content/uploads/2025/05/07/64b4254c1e.jpg)
Through a mini-series of 5 episode, go with it sought to come back in the past to try to understand what may have led the MHSC to the sinking. Today, the first episode returns to the day the LFP awarded TV rights to Mediapp. A certain idea of the beginning of the end.
1 – Here and if we were going to walk around the precipice
May 29, 2018, an era when France is not yet a double world champion, when the script for a world epidemic is confined to the TV movie on Sunday afternoon on TF1 and where French football is still bankable. It was seven years ago, it seems an eternity, it is surely, but it was then that the MHSC made its first by towards the precipice which will lead him to Ligue 2.
That day, the League has just taken off for almost one billion euros, Laurent Nicollin like all other presidents is bright: “Tomorrow, if your boss tells you that in two years, your salary will be doubled, when you go home, you take champagne with your wife. It must be said that all the signals are green for the French championship, on the internal market The competition between the TV broadcasters is harsh: RMC Sport, the new entrant has just won consecutively the Champions League and the English championship in Canal+, Bein is now well installed in the hexagonal and Canal football landscape seeks to do it again. The arrival of a new Spanish competitor suggests the best for the decade that opens, especially as a digital actor, Free, has offered a lot (extracts), it is possible to fantasize around the famous GAFAM, “The diffusers of the future ». Sportingly, Ligue 1 may never have been so well worn. Marseille has just played a final of the Europa League, Killian Mbappe, new darling of French football, joined Neymar at PSG. Everything pushes optimism and perhaps excess of confidence. Because by decommissioning his historic Canal+partner, for an adventure with the beautiful Spanish Mediapp, the leaders of Ligue 1 decided not to take into account the alerts that come on the other side of the Alps, where Italian TV rights were withdrawn from Mediapp for lack of serious financial guarantees. In short, for a handful of millions extra, Ligue 1 leaders choose the risk and they will pay it. Difficult to blame Laurent Nicollin for this decision, as blindness is then unanimous among the leaders of French football.
