Dazn, it's more serious than expected

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By: Manu Tournoux

The Professional Football League has lost patience in the face of Dazn's procrastination. Legal procedures are launched on both sides.

Dazn is no longer at the threat stadium against Ligue 1. according to the team, the evil is already done since the main broadcaster of the French championship (8 matches out of 9 every day) decreed that He would not in full pay the expiry of TV rights scheduled for February 2025.

Of the 70 million euros thus expected in the funds of the Professional Football League for redistribution to the elite clubs, only half was paid. The other half was not retained by the British platform but put on sequestration – while justice can decide the dispute.

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The counterattack league in court

According to Dazn, the LFP does not respect its commitments as to the means made available to its technical teams for the proper broadcast of the championship. Some clubs, moreover, would not play the game as desired, limiting to the bare minimum the television interactions on the sidelines of the matches. Worse still according to Dazn, the LFP would not do enough in the fight against hacking, which would explain the number of subscribers at half mast until then. Barely 500,000 a priori, when 1.5 million faithful were initially hoped for.

Faced with the urgency of the situation, an extraordinary board of directors was summoned by the League this Wednesday evening. The LFP having already assigned the broadcaster for “defect of payment” before the Commercial Court of Paris, reports the team. The cloth is well burning between the two parties, and the big loser certainly is none other than French football.