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Ligue 1 TV rights: Blanquer denounces the "greed" of French football

2020-11-23T18:18:51.548Z


The Minister of National Education, Youth and Sports criticized the management of the Mediapro file by the Professional Football League


This is a new tackle from the executive to the League in this file.

The Minister of National Education and Sports, Jean-Michel Blanquer, evoked Sunday "a form of greed and unrealism" of French professional football in the Mediapro file, a problem that the state does not according to him "Vocation to compensate".

The standoff continues between the Professional Football League (LFP) and Mediapro.

The Sino-Spanish group, which had been awarded in 2018, 80% of the TV rights of Ligue 1 for 780 million euros per year, has not paid the due date in October, in the amount of 172 , 3 million euros.

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While a new deadline is scheduled for December, the Sino-Spanish group wishes to review the terms of the contract for this season.

He initiated conciliation proceedings with the League (LFP).

Tuesday, November 17, during a meeting on aid to French sport hard hit by the coronavirus crisis, Emmanuel Macron was greatly surprised at the conditions for concluding this contract, according to participants.

“We knew that this contract was fragile.

I think that the people who negotiated it were not serious ”, had launched the head of state.

"You cannot call for help from the state"

“The President of the Republic was very clear, I was too clear, I believe, and the Prime Minister too.

We consider that you cannot take a financial risk as a private actor, lead to something rather serious anyway and, in the end, call for help the State to finance your risk, in a way ”, Jean-Michel Blanquer said on Sunday, interviewed on RTL.

“There are things we can do and things we cannot do.

Furthermore, I have every confidence in the players in professional football to find exit solutions, ”added the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports.

“Obviously, we follow that, we do not take our responsibility away.

But we are not intended to compensate for problems which were ultimately generated by a kind of greed and unrealism, ”concluded Mr. Blanquer.

Source: leparis

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