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An end, finally. This is how the end of the interminable series of the broadcasting of TV rights in France could be qualified. Open since December and the announcement of the withdrawal of Mediapro, this interminable series ended this evening with the intervention of Canal +. The encrypted channel has finally reached an agreement with the Professional Football League to broadcast the entire Ligue 1 until the end of the season. At that time, a new call for tenders will take place to determine what will happen next.
However, this situation will have a lasting impact on French football, especially in financial terms. With the default of the Sino-Spanish group, hundreds of millions of euros will be missing from the accounts of the French teams at the end of this 2020-2021 fiscal year.
500 million losses?
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Indeed, faced with this storm, the LFP tried to save the furniture. In total, it will collect the sum of 677 million over the season in total, against more than a billion euros at the base. ‘La 4’ will pay 35 million more than initially planned to help clubs face this financial crisis, in addition to the sum it already had to pay for its lot 3. A check for 200 million will therefore arrive in the funds of the League, to conclude a balance sheet half lower than it should be. It is about 500 million euros that will be lacking, enough to promise very complicated days to all residents of the French Championship. The next few months promise to be difficult, we will have to tighten our belts.
