As reported by Le Monde this Friday, the Professional Football League sent a letter on October 4 to the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, to complain about the senatorial fact-finding mission on “the intervention of investment funds in the French football.”
Pressure is mounting within the LFP. The Senate’s fact-finding mission on “the intervention of investment funds in French football” must submit its report by the end of October. The upper house is particularly wondering about the contours of the contract signed in 2022 between the League and the investment fund CVC Capital Partners, which brought 1.5 billion euros to French professional football against around 13% of its revenue. commercial for life.
While awaiting the conclusions of the report, the investigations carried out by Laurent Lafon, the president of the Commission, and Michel Savin, its rapporteur, did not please the League at all. As reported by Le Monde this Friday, the body sent a long letter to Gérard Larcher, the president of the Senate. In this letter dated October 4, the LFP denounces in particular “the unbearable interference in the normal functioning of the body.”
The LFP denounces “a presentation as biased as it is catastrophic”
Among the criticisms of Laurent Lafon and Michel Savin, those aimed at the salary, recently dropped by 30%, of the president of the LFP Vincent Labrune (“a sham reduction” according to the senators), have not passed at all within the League. “This episode is only a new illustration of the fact that the information mission seems to date less attached to informing on a subject of general interest than to publicly passing judgment on all the decisions taken by and within of the instance.”
In this letter, the LFP also regrets the “insinuations and the presentation, as biased as it is catastrophic, of the situation of French football.” She also points out “the illegible character, to say the least, of this information mission which seems to depart from its initial object.” Contacted by Le Monde, Michel Savin did not wish to react to this letter. “We are not going to respond to this type of pressure, of intimidation, as the League seems to be doing, which our work disrupts. This is not how a democracy works,” commented Laurent Lafon. LFP has also made decisions following our parliamentary work, which shows its usefulness.
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