On this decisive Tuesday in the TV rights crisis, and more broadly for the financial survival of French professional football, the president of the League Vincent Labrune said his preference for leaders of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2: a separation from the current Dazn diffuser. The Board of Directors of the League, which promises to be crucial, started around 5.30 p.m.
It is with almost an hour and a half behind the scheduled schedule that the Ligue’s Board of Directors – Decisive in the TV rights crisis – started this Tuesday around 5.30 p.m. in distant. Previously, the two colleges of L2 and L1 have held. Note that Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, president of PSG, was absent. At first retained by lunch with the leaders of Aston Villa which ended at 4:45 pm, it was then represented by its director general Victoriano Melero. The Parisian president favoring his concentration for his team’s match this evening in the Champions League.
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During exchanges with the colleges, the president of the LFP Vincent Labrune argued at length in favor of a separation from Dazn, with a desire to impose on the diffuser a compensation when breaking the current contract. The boss of the league clearly leaning in favor of the creation of the chain even if he has not returned to details. “We have to move forward by ourselves,” he said. A position that seems to join that of Joseph Oughourlian who has always denounced the Dazn option chosen last summer.
Other presidents such as Jean-Michel Roussier (Le Havre) or Waldemar Kita (Nantes) took the floor to explain that it was perhaps interesting to deepen Dazn’s proposal and to enter a real negotiation with them. Other bosses of clubs, on the other hand, seemed to show an amazing detachment from this situation of TV rights, however vital for many clubs.
