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Revealed on Wednesday, the decline of beIN Sports in negotiations with the LFP for TV rights to Ligue 1 has some observers fearing the worst.
The situation suddenly became tense for Vincent Labrune. While the boss of the Professional Football League was counting on bein Sports to obtain an amount at least equal to its expectations for TV rights to Ligue 1 over the period 2024-2009, the step backwards of the Qatari broadcaster revealed on Wednesday by The Parisian is a real blow. Seventy-nine days before the start of the new championship season, there is still no official broadcaster.
If the situation is not yet desperate, it remains no less worrying and the leader must go through complicated times, he who just a few months ago hoped to obtain a real jackpot revolving around 900 million euros for the broadcasting rights for the French championship. Still according to the media, Canal+ always observes the situation and assures that he has no intention of negotiating. The management of the encrypted channel is certainly delighted to see the embarrassment the League finds itself in, a few years after the decision of club presidents and the LFP to turn to MediaPro, for the fiasco that everyone knows about.
The value of Ligue 1 in free fall?
There are still a little over two months left to find a solution. Given this turn of events, it seems pretty clear that each of the potential candidates is waiting for the League to agree to lower prices. Both owner of Paris Saint-Germain and bein Sports, Qatar will most likely end up making a proposal again. But in the meantime, concern is growing among observers. Specialist in sports economics, Pierre Rondeau did not hide his concern.
On social networks, he used a sentence from Parisian : “ Canal+’s strong position could cause the value of Ligue 1 to fall to less than €500 million, which would not be offset by the increase in international TV rights to €150 million. » And his conclusion was scathing: “ We are heading straight for disaster here. »
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