Wishing a global call for tenders on the TV rights of the French football championship, Canal + is contesting the decision of the Professional Football League to launch a call for tenders for the Mediapro group's lots only.

The latter now claims that he never intended to stop paying for the matches broadcast by Téléfoot.

The imbroglio continues concerning the TV rights of the Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 championships. The Canal + group will contest the validity of the market consultation launched Tuesday evening by the Professional Football League which wishes to call into play the TV rights of 80 % matches.

According to information from

Figaro

, Canal + believes that the League cannot organize a new partial call for tenders.

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Since the start of the school year, Canal + has broadcast the remaining 20% ​​of the championship, for which it has bought the rights from beIN Sports.

But following Mediapro's default in payment, the group believes that this lot has been overvalued and has been asking for ten days that the rights to the entire championship be put back on sale.

Mediapro just wanted to renegotiate the prices?

At the same time, Mediapro boss Jaume Roures broke his silence, a month after the withdrawal agreement with the LFP.

He thus delivered his version of the unfolding of events to Spanish radio: according to him, Mediapro never intended to stop paying for the matches broadcast on its Téléfoot channel.

The group simply wanted to renegotiate the price of the rights it had acquired, believing that the health situation had depreciated them.

"Instead of sitting down to negotiate, it turned out badly", summarizes the boss of the group.

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But this rewrite does not seem to fit the facts.

Mediapro has indeed refused to honor its October and December deadlines, ie around 330 million euros.

Mediapro also placed itself under the protection of the Commercial Court of Nanterre in November.

These steps did not prevent him from proposing to the League, earlier this week, to continue to broadcast the matches beyond January 31.

An option that would constitute a backup solution if the call for tenders launched by the League did not succeed on time.