Ligue 1 resumes in about ten days and we still don’t know who the headliners will be on DAZN. The new Ligue 1 broadcaster, which presented its offers to follow the French championship on its platform with eight matches per day, has not announced the arrival of any journalists or consultants. Could Pierre Ménès, absent from the airwaves since his departure from Canal+, make his return to the screens? A priori no.
“I think they are going to recycle the people who were on Téléfoot, then on Amazon, that is to say those who have no family, no friends, no home, those I call rights journalistshe says in his column on YouTube. They go where the rights are and we don’t care who is behind it. Everyone does as they want, but I don’t have that conception of the profession.” He, who never wanted to leave the encrypted channel, does not see himself returning to service at DAZN.
“I had the opportunity to go elsewhere during my career, but it seems that this is no longer the case today”he explains. A collaboration between Pierre Ménès and the British group would in any case be very strange given the repeated attacks by the former sniper of Canal Football Club against the “Netflix of sports”. For him, the agreement made by the Professional Football League with DAZN is simply ” doomed to fail “even more so with the prices offered.
Pierre Ménès smashes (again) DAZN and the LFP
To follow Ligue 1 on this platform, you will have to pay 14.99 euros per month to watch just one match per day and 29.99 euros per month to have access to the eight matches obtained by DAZN for 400 million euros per year (the remaining one will be broadcast on beIN Sports, on Saturdays at 5 p.m.). “I bet there won’t be a million subscribers by the end of the season.”announces the journalist, who persists and signs on the future failure of this partnership.
“This will be an incredible financial loss for DAZN, which will certainly try to pass on this shitty stick quickly. But once again, we are touching on the gross incompetence of the League, Vincent Labrune and his faithful right-hand man Jean-Pierre Caillot”asserts Pierre Ménès. Ligue 1 will begin on Friday, August 16 at 8:45 p.m. with a match between Le Havre and PSG, the reigning French champion. Brest and OM will face off the following day on beIN Sports.
