The match which is about to start is crucial for the future of the French round ball.
And its outcome, highly uncertain.
On Monday, the Professional Football League (LFP) will know whether one or more solvent broadcasters are ready to take over most of the French football championship, after the Mediapro fiasco.
Potential candidates have until noon to submit an offer to the Parisian headquarters of the League.
A steering committee will study the proposals in the afternoon, with a view to an express reallocation of TV rights for the period 2020-2024.
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There still need to be offers on the table.
And that these are higher than the reserve price set by the League.
French football will still have to be pragmatic.
After having sinned by gluttony by targeting the billion euros in revenue, the clubs today find themselves on the verge of bankruptcy.
Who to replenish the coffers?
Alex Green, the head of Amazon sports Europe, warned in
L'Équipe
: "
Our investments are completely rational
".
Never before has the e-commerce giant spent more than 100 million euros on sports rights.
The DAZN sports streaming platform?
She is already deeply in debt.
Bein Sports?
Mystery.
Some evoke investment funds, others speculate on a possible offer from Mediapro.
As for Canal +, will the encrypted channel try to win matches at low prices?
The Vivendi subsidiary has in any case started a legal standoff with the LFP.
The channel estimates to have overpaid for the meetings it broadcasts for 330 million euros per year.
It has decided to return them, calls for a new consultation covering the entire championship and is attacking the League in the Paris commercial court as well as before the Competition Authority.
The LFP has given itself until Friday to complete its tender.
But the legal war launched by Canal + risks calling everything into question.
Clearly, this Monday's game could well play extra time.