Conflict with Mediapro: for Louis Acariès, "Labrune can come to an arrangement"

INTERVIEW

Faced with the crisis facing French football, is Vincent Labrune the right man for the job?

By reaffirming its willingness to honor its contract with Ligue 1, Mediapro has tried to reassure French football players, but has not swept aside the concerns of a milieu which could be forced to renegotiate its TV rights downward.

In the meantime, the Professional Football League, led by its new president, has taken out a loan of 112 million euros to deal with the non-payment in October of these TV rights.

Guest on Saturday from Facing the listeners of Europe 1, the former boxer Louis Acariès knows Vincent Labrune well, whom he had brought to the Olympique de Marseille when he was advising the owner Robert Louis-Dreyfus.

For him, the one he describes as "a submarine boy" will manage to find an arrangement.

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"Ultimately, it will be absorbed, it will get better," predicts Louis Acariès, who believes that "those who chair the League are quite smart".

Vincent Labrune, he adds, "I know him better than he knows himself".

For Louis Acariès, the former boss of OM is "smart, a man of networks, a submarine boy and that's why he came to the presidency".

And to continue: "I think he can come to have an arrangement. I don't know which one, but he will get there". 

"He's very good when you can't see him"

Vincent Labrune's qualities are the reason why Louis Acariès introduced him to Robert Louis-Dreyfus in the early 2000s, "so that he takes care of Robert's communication, which was disastrous at that time".

"And I knew that through his networks and offs, in a submarine, he could arrange a lot of things". 

Vincent Labrune "can succeed, because he's smart enough for that, to fix things," he insists.

"He can find the cogs to make it happen."