Less than three weeks before the end of the 2024-2025 Ligue 1 exercise, the vagueness still reigns over the future of French professional football, even if a exit from the crisis takes carefully form. The failed mediation between the Professional Football League (LFP) and the Dazn broadcaster was unable to settle the dispute on television rights of the championship, it is the turn of the new director general of LFP Media, the ex-boss of the M6 group Nicolas de Tavernost, to try to resolve an equation with several unknowns.
Faced with the blocking situation for the past few months, the LFP had stored, on April 15, in the opinion of the mediator: a break, this summer, of the current contract initially until 2029, or even before the entry into force of the clause allowing a departure at the end of the 2025-2026 season.
To act the divorce, the mediator had proposed that the British platform pays to the LFP a compensatory allowance of 120 million euros. A solution refused by the broadcaster, who continues the league before the Paris Commercial Court – he demanded 573 million euros by accusing it in particular of “Deputy merchandise”. The League had concluded that the contract continued “With the contentious prosecution to the key”.
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