During his last press briefing, Jaume Roures, the president of Mediapro, advanced the figure of 600,000 subscribers already attracted by the Mediapro offer, the main broadcaster of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 this season.
In conflict with the LFP because it refuses to pay the expected payments, the Sino-Spanish group counted in particular on the consequent influx of new subscribers (3.5 million) to try to amortize its colossal investment over the next four seasons.
(780 million euros per year for L1, 34 M € for Ligue 2 between 2020 and 2024).
It missed.
The team
tells us this Friday that Mediapro has only reached 480,000 subscribers for the moment.
A very distant figure from the ambitions announced.
As a reminder, Mediapro sued Canal + for "abuse of a dominant position", accusing it of trying to oust it from the French football television rights market.
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