Paris (AFP)
The end of a showdown: the Professional Football League (LFP) announced Friday that it had reached an agreement with its broadcasters Canal + and beIN Sports, to obtain the payment of TV rights for the matches of L1 and L2 already played that 'they refused to pay until then.
The clubs of the Championship expected nearly 43 M EUR from the encrypted channel which had refused to honor the payment of a tranche of 110 M due to the cessation of the competition, a significant sum in a difficult economic context caused by the epidemic of the new coronavirus.
This amount corresponds to the difference between the amount paid by Canal +, estimated at two-thirds of the total, and the fact that three-quarters of the matches have already been delivered.
A group of four presidents, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi (Paris SG), Olivier Sadran (Toulouse), Jacques-Henri Eyraud (Marseille) and Jean-Pierre Rivère (Nice), has been mandated by the LFP Bureau to find an agreement with the chain.
"Thank you to the four presidents for the quality of the dialogue. Our discussions continue on the recovery, with the ambition to preserve the spectacle and the health of all", reacted on Twitter Maxime Saada, the boss of the Canal + group.
BeIN, for its part, refused to honor a payment of 42 million euros in early April.
This announcement comes when the League hopes to resume training during the week of May 11, following the gradual lifting of containment, before a possible restart of competition in mid-June.
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