Daniel Riolo, editorialist for After Foot on RMC, believes that it is time for Vincent Labrune to leave his position as president of the Professional Football League because of his numerous failures, including that of TV rights.
For Daniel Riolo, Vincent Labrune must leave. In L’After Monday on RMC, the editorialist listed the numerous failures of the president of the Professional Football League (LFP) including that of TV rights for Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, still not allocated for the period 2024- 2025 two months before the resumption of the championships. Daniel Riolo invited club presidents to oust him.
“If he leaves, Canal will come back to the table”
“The most striking element was the capitulation, it was: ‘OK, it’s only worth 500 after having, for years, said that it was worth much more, a billion, having seduced CVC by presenting a business plan which started at a billion and which ended at 1.4 or even 1.6 billion over a period of five years The capitulation is there, it’s ‘I was wrong, it’s only worth 500′. is not in a situation of failure there, you have to explain to me we are not on a small reduction, we are at 500. Added to this is what we are going to deduct (what the French clubs will have to pay back. to CVC): 20% at first, then 13. That’s a series of lies that is starting to become quite embarrassing. When he arrived at the head of the LFP, Labrune did what he does all the time, it’s “buying” journalists, giving them appointments. I was also entrusted with these breakfasts. He has his journalists who write articles. poker’, ‘he’s a seducer’. Actors, authors, artists, TV people for support and it worked because a ton of presidents eat out of his hand. Caillot, Féry, Nicollin… He eats in Nasser’s but he had to seduce Nasser. He sold us the GAFA, ‘it’s great, the GAFA will come, Apple, Netflix will come’. He took Amazon by selling it for a pittance.”
“The quarrel with Canal had started before he arrived but he put the final blow with condescension… He set up CVC for us by locking absolutely everything, by making himself boss of the commercial company. He ( the presidents) were unanimously convinced (…) They were all smoked, on the TV rights, of the League’s businesses.
“They all screwed up. You can’t get bamboozled like that.”
“Now we realize that he may have a problem. I am of the opinion that he must go because with so many failures, you cannot stay. He based everything on the success of this call for tenders which was to be the structuring thing to remain at the head of the League for 20 years. In the end, there is nothing. I tell you today: there is nothing. he leaves French football can be saved If he leaves, Canal comes back to sit at the negotiating table If the presidents I have just criticized finally want to wake up, they must tell him: ‘go away’. There are a lot of people in the league who have left, like its TV rights specialist. If he leaves, Canal is back at the table and it is perhaps a little less than 700 million but a little better than 500. If this is not the case, 500 million, we will have to turn the page on catastrophism and relearn how to finally work intelligently in recruitment, training and for everyone to deflate the melon a little, to stop believing that we are an extraordinary league that we stop exploding payroll and that we look at the people who have better results than us with much less money, like obviously Portugal. The last Conference League final was Fiorentina-Olympiacos, teams who have less money than us.”
