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The Professional Football League is being criticized for its management of TV rights, which were the subject of a very lucrative lifetime contract for the CVC investment fund. Rapporteur of the parliamentary information mission, Senator Michel Savin invited it on Thursday to “urgently review its governance”, after a raid on its premises.
French football is not doing well, pinned for the calamitous management of television broadcasting rights for matches, this doping product of the football business. The Professional Football League (LFP) is suspected not of having sold its soul to the devil, but of having sold off or mortgaged the future of French football. After having promised a billion euros per season, Vincent Labrune, the president of the LFP re-elected for four years on Tuesday, September 10 in incredible conditions, with a marshal’s score (86% of the votes), had to swallow his ambitions and sell off the French championship for 500 million euros to Dazn and BeIn Sports. Since then, football has been in the syringe: parliamentary information mission to the Senate, whose multiple hearings now resemble public happenings, preliminary investigation opened by the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), which, according to our information, has been examining the case for almost a year. Not to mention the Court of Auditors which could in turn join in the dance. As a symbol, LR senator Michel Savin, rapporteur of
