Paris (AFP)

The Professional Football League (LFP) has "put in default" Mediapro, main broadcaster of Ligue 1, to settle its television rights deadlines and does not rule out turning to other operators, according to a letter sent to the clubs and consulted Thursday by AFP.

"We (...) have put them on formal notice to settle the deadlines of October 1 and 5. (...) Either a favorable outcome is found with Mediapro, or this is not the case, and it will be necessary to consider resumption of the contract by other operators ", explains in this letter the executive director general of the LFP Arnaud Rouger, saying moreover to have requested" a financing offer "to compensate the amounts not paid by Mediapro.

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