The president of Stade Rennais Nicolas Holveck.

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C. Allain / 20 Minutes

With the coronavirus crisis and the sinking of the broadcaster Mediapro, French clubs are seeing their finances fall dangerously into the red.

At Stade Rennais, the bill promises to be very steep.

According to President Nicolas Holveck, interviewed by

France Bleu

, it amounts to around 40 million euros.

These losses, which represent nearly 40% of the estimated budget for the Breton club this season, are added to the nearly 20 million euros lost in ticketing, TV rights and sponsorship with the premature end of the 2019/2020 season.

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According to Nicolas Holveck, the absence of the public will cost nearly 15 million euros in lost revenue in ticketing and hospitality.

At the same time, the club, which expected to receive 50 million euros in TV rights for the Ligue 1 season, is now planning to touch only half of it, a loss of 25 million euros.

Clubs forced to sell their best players

Discussions are underway with the Pinault family, sole shareholder of the Breton club, to determine how and over how long to cover these losses, said Nicolas Holveck, adding that Rennes had "the chance" not to have debts before the crisis. .

"But it is certain that the whole of French football will be impacted in an incredible way", he added, estimating that "a certain number of clubs" were going to be obliged to sell their best players, "s' they find buyers ”.

Just before the truce, Nicolas Holveck had launched in front of the press a call to “revolutionize the French football” to face the crisis of the rights TV.

“We have to completely rethink our product since we see that its value is no longer what we had imagined […].

We will have to redesign from top to bottom, both on governance and on the sporting part, ”he said, evoking the idea of“ thinking about different formats, with interesting matches until the end of the season ".

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