In May 2018, Mediapro became the providential financier of French football.
He had won, under the nose and the beard of Canal +, the major part of the rights of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, for a large check: 3.1 billion euros for four seasons, between 2020 and 2024, i.e. just over € 780 million per year.
At the time, the clubs had slashed champagne.
Thanks to the juicy contract signed with the Sino-Spanish group, the revenues of the Professional Football League (LFP) would jump 60% compared to the previous call for tenders.
Enough to hoist French football among the elite, on par with Germany and Spain.
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Two and a half years later, French football finds itself with a hell of a hangover.
Thursday, in the columns of
L'Équipe,
its main television partner did not go by four ways.
"
We want to renegotiate the price
" of the contract, warned Jaume Roures, the boss of Mediapro, citing a season "
very affected by the Covid-19
".
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