Christophe Bouchet tackles Vincent Labrune over Ligue 1 TV rights

The subject is still explosive. Asked by The Parisian on the work of the Professional Football League regarding TV rights, Vincent Labrune suggested that he had been deliberately put in the way. “Football is a gigantic fantasy box. You don’t find it very surprising that a completely dependent book comes out one month before the call for tenders (he targets the former president of OM and candidate for the LFP Christophe Bouchet) ? That at the same time, a senatorial commission of inquiry is interested in the agreement with CVC less than eighteen months after the vote on the law and the agreement with a commercial company? And finally, that an association that is totally obscure to the general public files a complaint with the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office?“, he said.

Before adding: “Who benefits from all this? It’s not for me to say, we’ll see. I’m not complaining, I see.»

“It’s swollen”

Christophe Bouchet on Vincent Labrune

Comments which surprised – and (visibly) annoyed – Christophe Bouchet, one of the people (directly) targeted by these allegations. The former president of Olympique de Marseille, who had tried to run in the LFP elections, responded on X this Friday morning: “It’s swollen. Labrune, after having claimed ‘that no one would have done better’ to get re-elected to the LFP, today explains to Le Parisien the TV rights fiasco as a general conspiracy against him. I think the boy lost his footing…“, he wrote.

As a reminder, while he had promised to obtain the billion euros per season for the TV rights of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, Vincent Labrune finally concluded an agreement for an amount estimated at €500 million. .or half as much. Last August, in an interview given to The Teamhe had affirmed that “no one would have done better».

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