While a conciliation must be found between Mediapro and the LFP in early December, Vincent Labrune seems to be the right man to avoid the sinking of the Titanic that Ligue 1 has become.
Elected as president of the Professional Football League when he seemed to be the outsider against Michel Denisot, Vincent Labrune confirmed that when it came to acting in the shadows he was still just as strong. And we can legitimately think that the former boss of OM was aware of the apocalyptic situation that was looming with Mediapro. But anyway, the president of the LFP must now manage the dirtiest file in the history of Ligue 1 and the League, the refusal of Jaume Roures to pay the TV rights being a huge blow for the French sport, already heavily impacted by the Covid crisis. Asked about Vincent Labrune’s ability to solve this colossal problem, Louis Acariès considers that he is the ideal man. The former boxer, who had introduced Vincent Labrune to Robert Louis-Dreyfus so that he could make him his trusted man at Olympique de Marseille is convinced that the LFP will come out of it.
Asked about Europe 1 about the boss of the Professional Football League, Louis Acariès is confident. ” Ultimately, it will subside, it will get better. Those who chair the League are smart enough (…) Vincent Labrune, I know him better than he knows himself. He’s smart, he’s a network man, a submarine boy, and that’s why he came to the presidency. I think he can come to an arrangement. I don’t know which one, but he will get there. Vincent Labrune can succeed, because he’s smart enough to do it, to make things right. He can find the cogs to make it happen », Believes Louis Acariès. On the side of the leaders of Ligue 1, we will probably cross our fingers that the former boxing champion is not mistaken.
