Dazn dissatisfied to the point of paying only half of his deadlines with the Professional Football League (LFP), BeIN Sports in negotiations to sell half of its capital and possibly move away from the French market, it is in the Complete uncertainty that Ligue 1 clubs have to face the future. After the already disappointing promise to have to deal with 500 million euros in annual TV rights until 2029.
In view of the turn of events, it is a safe bet that the deal signed last summer between the League, Dazn and Bein will not last so long. And the elite club bosses to worry about their future with short and medium terms. President of RC Lens, Joseph Oughourlian thus denounces ” A big governance problem In French football this Saturday at the turn of an interview with the Parisian.
“The most inequitable world championship”
According to the rare voices to have opposed Vincent Labrune and Nasser al-Khelaïfi-respectively LFP and PSG managers (in addition to bein sports)-during the crisis of confidence observed six months ago, the boss blood and gold judges Ligue 1 as ” The most inequitable and unbalanced championship in the world ». “” We cannot have a championship where the result is known in advance from the first day! L1 cannot be competitive because we do not have an interesting product He continues.
Pessimistic, Joseph Oughourlian denounces the irresponsibility of current frames of the French round ball: ” The logic of the LFP will lead us tomorrow to have an L1 made up of 14 clubs and perhaps even at 12… “The probable consequence of TV rights completely devalued, after a succession of poor choices incumbent on the League and thus denounced by the Artesian official:” There is a fundamental problem. In six years, we cannot change the diffuser all the time. We cannot crumble our product. This led to losing our customers, football consumers on paid TV and it is the responsibility of the League and its president. The Dazn error is worse than that of Mediapp. (…) There were between 2 and 3 million subscribers to Canal+ who came specially for football. With Amazon, we had between 1.2 and 1.3 million people on football and now we hear that Dazn is less than 500,000 subscribers. The drop is catastrophic! It is insane in a country fan of football like France! »»
