This Friday, the Board of Directors of the Professional Football League must ratify the act of breach of contract with Dazn for the diffusion rights of Ligue 1 acquired last summer and until June 2029. For the payment of compensation of 100 million euros, the British platform will end its commitment to the conclusion of this financial year, while paying 140 million euros due to the LFP. A boon for Canal+.
Nicolas de Tavernost freshly named at the head of the Commercial Company of the League, the boss of the Canal group, Maxime Saada, is again inclined to dialogue with a football entity which he has been able to judge ungrateful and dishonest towards him in the past. A meeting is scheduled for next week between the two aforementioned men. The door open, clearly, has a return from Canal+ to the landscape of the French round ball.
According to L'Equipe this Thursday, Canal ” estimates the best know-how in terms of production, marketing power, marketing, negotiation with distributors and distribution with its more than 5 million subscribers ». Arguments that remain real today if we observe the coverage of European competitions, for which the encrypted chain agrees to bet 480 million euros each year, until 2027.
Canal+ quickly targets the 2 million subscribers
While Maxime Saada in person has already contacted several presidents of Ligue 1 clubs, the case seems well committed. But suspended from the creation by the LFP of a 100% dedicated and conditioned chain to a total exclusivity of collaboration, from production to dissemination. This while Dazn would try to convince the League to keep the hand on the production of this famous chain stamped LFP.
Always to believe the daily life aroused, the reflection at Canal+ would be advanced to such an extent that the price of the subscription would already be fixed or almost. “” While many surveys set the psychological barrier of a subscription to such a chain at 15 euros per month, Canal+ would see this as a fair price
». For current subscribers, a pass at 10 euros monthly would even be envisaged. Such prices according to Canal would quickly reconnect with 1.5 to 2 million subscribers.
