As promised, Vincent Labrune, president of the Professional Football League, and Arnaud Rouger, general director, proposed a reduction in their remuneration to their board of directors on Wednesday.
The board of directors of the Professional Football League, meeting on Wednesday, recorded a 30% reduction in the remuneration of its president, Vincent Labrune, and its general director, Arnaud Rouger, AFP learned from a source. close to the instance.
“Since August, the League has been working to reduce its costs. The board of directors, this morning (Wednesday), decided to reduce the body’s payroll by 22.4% for the current 2024-2025 financial year.specified this same source.
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“In this context, the president of the League and its general director proposed to reduce their remuneration by 30%”she added. In office since 2020 at the head of the LFP, Vincent Labrune saw his annual salary triple, going from 400,000 euros to 1.2 million euros.
No end of term compensation
Upon his re-election for a new mandate on September 10, Vincent Labrune announced his intention to reduce the amount of his annual remuneration, currently 1.2 million euros.
Arnaud Rouger, in a duo with Labrune since 2020, decided to align with the salary reduction of his president – who at the same time waived his end-of-term lump sum compensation.
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The League faces a difficult equation to resolve to cushion the very significant drop in television revenues brought by the British sports streaming platform DAZN and the Qatari channel beIN Sports for around 500 million euros annually during the period 2024-2029 .
But the LFP’s objective of reducing salary costs by 22.4% will not be accompanied by an employment protection plan (PSE), said this source close to the Board of Directors.
