€660 million per season, including €400 paid by DAZN. That’s what the LFP will receive for the TV rights to Ligue 1 for the period 2024-2029. At least if the British group, the brand new broadcaster of the French championship with eight out of nine matches per day on its platform (the remaining match having been obtained by beIN Sports), pays the bill as agreed. Which is far from guaranteed, according to Pierre Ménès.
For the former Canal+ consultant, the deal made by Vincent Labrune, president of the Professional Football League, before the “Netflix of Sport”, is ” a disaster “. Firstly because the subscription offered to viewers will be much too expensive. “The DAZN project, which does not even have exclusivity for 35 to 40 euros per month, is doomed to failure”the journalist says in his column Facing Pierrotbroadcast on YouTube.
DAZN like Mediapro?
“If I have to make a prediction, I think the channel will not have a million subscribers before the end of the championship and therefore it will be a gigantic financial flop.adds the former sniper of the Canal Football Club. Apparently they are negotiating exit clauses but it seems obvious to me that DAZN will not complete the five-year contract they signed with the League. This is taking a step back to take a step back.”
The prospect of a new fiasco at Mediapro, which abandoned Ligue 1 after six months in January 2021, cannot therefore be ruled out for Pierre Ménès, who fears for the survival of certain teams. “It’s a disaster because there are clubs that are going to lose between 15 and 20 million euros per yearhe explains. These are sums which risk causing the bankruptcy of certain independent clubs, such as Reims, Montpellier or Nantes.
