At the heart of an explosive situation with French football TV rights, Vincent Labrune will be on the grill this Wednesday in the Senate. It promises sport.
On the verge of implosion with the prospect of seeing the great financial windfall from TV rights evaporate, French football is preparing for one of the most dangerous turns in its history. Faced with the absence of candidates capable of putting in enough money to broadcast Ligue 1, the LFP has no choice and plans to create and broadcast its own television channel, with the price of subscriptions to supply the clubs. French. This risks making a big drop compared to the previous contract, especially since 13% of all revenue generated will go into the pocket of CVC, in a deal signed for life with the Luxembourg pension fund.
An untenable situation even if the signing with CVC responded to a specific need for liquidity after Covid and the Médiapro fiasco. Nevertheless, at a time when the situation is tense and confidence in Vincent Labrune to resolve the situation is hanging by a thread, the president of the League is summoned this Wednesday to the Senate for a commission of inquiry into this famous contract with CVC but also the news of TV rights, and in particular on the fact that the League does not always seem to have control of events and its troubled relationship with Canal+ which is the key to this issue.
Labrune: “I am the target”
This promises sport and the former president of OM is convinced that it will be hot. Indeed, according to RMC, he even confided to Waldemar Kita on the sidelines of the last LFP board of directors, that he expected to be put through the mill. “I don’t think you quite understand what awaits me. That’s all I do, at the moment I spend between 4 and 5 hours a day preparing for my audition. I am the target », Delivered Vincent Labrune, who therefore does not spend his days trying to find a solution to the problem of TV rights. The presidents of Ligue 1 will appreciate it, or not, but the leader must also prepare because it is a series of up to 80 questions which will be proposed to him by the senators.
