A few more white hairs for Vincent Labrune?
OL decided to bang their fist on the table this Thursday. After having noted, like all other Ligue 1 clubs, that 24% of the first payment from beIN Sports has still not been madethe Rhone club sends its mail to the LFP, indicates The Team. As a reminder, to have a Ligue 1 poster every day, beIN Sports must pay, this season, 80 million euros in rights and 20 million in sponsorship. However, the channel has still not yet transferred its entire first payment to the LFP.
The LFP directly targeted
« We would like to begin by recalling the worsening economic difficulties suffered by clubs since the last allocation of audiovisual rights, which, as you know, resulted in a drastic drop of more than 60% in this category of our income, which is nevertheless essential in our sector. activity, wrote the OL in his letter, which had been by the voice of John Textor one of the rare clubs to criticize the allocation of these TV rights as well as the re-election of Vincent Labrune. This situation was further deteriorated by the prolonged non-payment of beIN Sports of the sums due, while the channel has been able to benefit from full rights and garner new subscribers since the resumption of the championship. We ask you to immediately take all necessary steps to recover the sums owed by beIN Sports.”
Also implicated, an unforeseen marketing component between the LFP and beIN Sports. This concerns a “Sponsoring Deal » between different parties. This would benefit the Qatar Tourism brand. Here again, OL points the finger « the incompetence of the LFP to decide on the marketing of marketing inventories relating to club properties », « non-compliance with the procedures and prerogatives of the Board of Directors », « non-compliance with distribution rules » or even « violation of competition rules ». Enough to push the Rhone club to “consider the partnership agreed to in violation of our rights as null and void”.
Towards the end of recess? The other clubs still need to come out of the woods.
Daniel Congré towards OL
