“Who could have predicted? » Almost everyone! Ligue 1 is sick, and it is not with two or three bandages that our favorite championship in the world will be able to heal, nor with the falling TV rights amounts that the elite clubs will be able to settle their debts. “The situation is serious,” confirms Marie Barsacq, the new minister of sports. With a deficit of 1.2 billion euros, we will have to act quickly. »
Very quickly, even. Because some clubs are in great difficulty. Angers is struggling to pay its players, Montpellier is doing everything to sell its best-paid players to make up the deficit… “The figures lead us to be worried,” assures the woman who was a member of the Executive Committee of the French Football Federation in an interview has West France. We need football in good shape. »
“A complicated financial situation”
“I obviously understand the issues and the consequences of the call for tenders which took place on TV rights,” adds Marie Barsacq. Obviously this is not good news and I don't want to shoot the ambulance. My challenge is to lead to dialogue and to seek solutions. »
-The Minister of Sports, however, does not want to fall into gloom: “It is paradoxical because there is, on the one hand, a complicated financial situation; and, on the other, a craze in the stadiums, with more than 27,000 people on average per match. The arrival of new investors, such as Redbull or the Arnault family at Paris FC, are positive elements. But it's not all about budget. » A little anyway, especially when you can no longer pay your players.
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