Ligue 1+, Pierre Ménès forces the door

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By: Manu Tournoux

On August 15, LFP Media will launch Ligue 1+, a new platform completely dedicated to the Ligue 1 McDonald's. In addition to the matches of the French championship, replays, club content, exclusive documentaries and two weekly magazines will be offered to subscribers.

Who says new channel dedicated to French football called new team of journalists and sports consultants. What if Pierre Ménès, who recently pointed out by doubting the causes of the death of Thierry Ardisson, took the opportunity to return to television?

If he was contacted by the leaders of LFP Media, the native of the eighth arrondissement of Paris would be enchanted. “Yes probably, but it's really fiction”he replied to one of his subscribers on his YouTube channel.

Pierre Ménès, persona non grata

Pierre Ménès even shows himself fatalistic on this subject. “It will not happen I am a pestifiedhe regrets, fully aware that he is no longer bankable. Solicitors? No it's over. »»

In 2021, Pierre Ménès left Canal+, after having collaborated almost twelve years with the audiovisual group, in which he had become an emblematic figure thanks to his role as sniper of the “Canal Football Club”. The sports journalist did not “survive” the broadcast of the documentary “I am not a slut, I am a journalist” by Marie Portolano.