Absolutely finish the French Championship of Ligue 1 and League 2. Gathered this Friday afternoon by phone for three hours, the office of the Professional Football League (LFP) unanimously recalled its desire to complete the competition .
The proceeding is on the same wavelength as UEFA, which, in a letter this Friday, orders the Leagues to end its tests under penalty of sanctions while Belgium, for its part, wants to end its championship by freezing the classification on March 7, the date of the last disputed day.
Bertrand Desplat, the president of Guingamp, asks to fix two pivotal dates: one for the closing of the 2019-2020 season, end of July, beginning of August; the other for the resumption of the next 2020-2021 fiscal year. From these two anchor points, the group in charge of the calendar can establish a back-planning for the current one, interrupted on March 13 at the start of the 29th day.
The DNCG will be lenient
In addition, the delegation of the four representatives appointed on Wednesday - Nasser Al-Khelaïfi (PSG), Olivier Sadran (Toulouse), Jean-Pierre Rivère (Nice), Jacques-Henri Eyraud (Marseille) - in order to negotiate with Canal + sees its mission extent. It must also convince the other broadcaster, BeIN, to settle the payments due.
The two audiovisual groups recently wrote to the LFP to explain that because of the interruption of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2, they would not honor their deadline of April 5 - 152 million euros were planned. French football has played 73% of the current season. 67% were paid to him. He fights to recover the differential of 6% or 60 million euros all taxes included. Note that Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, CEO of BeIN group, will therefore negotiate with the French subsidiary of his conglomerate…
Finally, the DNCG, the gendarme of the football in France, took note of the short-term cash flow difficulties for the clubs, over the period going from March to June, since the TV rights are for the moment deferred. She should show flexibility in examining the accounts in a few months.
