Monday evening, Fabien Touati was invited from the program “the after foot” on RMC. The journalist, who recently carried out the investigation broadcast on France 2 about Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, revealed a new compromising document for French football.
It is a long extract from the meeting of the college of Ligue 1, dating from February 14, February February. These recordings are proof of a deleterious climate between the presidents of Ligue 1 clubs, revolving around the non-payment of the last deadline of Dazn. For Christophe Dugarry, this long episode of TV rights can only end tragically.
“There is no more product. We go to the front of a cataclysm, estimated the sports consultant on RMC. That is to say that today the product has been … it's not worth anything. From 3 million, you go to 1.2 million (subscribers), then to 400,000. Who today, which broadcaster will want to take Ligue 1 for 400,000 viewers? And it would cost between 150 and 200 million euros. That means that in a year or two, you have no broadcaster to watch the Ligue 1 matches. ”
TV rights, an outcome dedicated to failure
And the 1998 world champion to continue: “It's over! This is why from the start we say that President Labrune can no longer stay in the League and Caillot it is the same thing. All these people have to leave and you have to put competent people to start again on another model. But sincerely, today we have been so far that I do not see how you can value and sell a product that is also outdated, distorted and catastrophic ”.
For his part, Jérôme Rothen hardly shows himself more optimistic on the subject. “I was hit on the fingers because in August I had a rant, underlines the former left offensive. I was told that the product had to be left a chance. But I did not need to wait eight or nine months of competition, as some did, to realize that we were running in the disaster. »»
