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Even the most assiduous football fans must get lost in the cacophony that reigns between the clubs to limit financial damage. Faced with the crisis triggered by the coronavirus, each manager goes there with his proposal to try to save his team. Wednesday, the LFP voted to establish an L2 to 22 clubs, instead of 20. But the president of the Federation has already indicated that he would oppose it. For Vincent Chaudel, sports economist, the sector may well not recover from the end of the championships, and be forced to part with its best players to try to bail out. "We risk attending a clearance sale," he warns the microphone of Europe 1.
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A shortfall of 400 million euros
"The end of the championship was decided by the Prime Minister when there was a quarter of the competition," said the economist. "It lacks a quarter of TV rights, sponsorship, ticketing. For French football, it is 400 million euros less." While the other European countries are already thinking about a resumption of the championships, the loss suffered by France could become particularly disabling on the market.
Failure to take over will widen an economic gap close to a billion between France and its main competitors, according to Vincent Chaudel. What push French players to join foreign teams. "The discount in player value during the coronavirus period has been estimated at -15% for championships that can resume and up to -30% for those who do not resume."
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This situation could lead to a French football squash during the next transfer window. "We will try to sell more to get money, but we will arrive in a transfer window or our competitors, even if they have taken over, will not be economically well. They will have less money to put on the market. table, and above all they will know that we have an urgent need to sell, "points out this specialist. "And when you have an urgent need to sell, you make less good business."