The TV rights series is not quite over -

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The 39th season of the L1 TV rights telenovela is meant to be less sexy than the previous ones, but it's still worth a look.

Because after the time of the departure of Mediapro and that of the LFP vs Canal + feud, here has come the age of negotiations by mutual agreement for the broadcasting of the L1 over the period 2021-2024.

With a "deadline" fixed "in June", specifies Jean-Michel Aulas.

To find an agreement, it will not be necessary to exceed this date.

"We will be able to attack negotiations normally by mutual agreement" between the LFP and interested candidates, Aulas said in an interview on Tuesday, since the Paris commercial court confirmed last week that the League was not forced to a global call for tenders.

Lessons from Mediapro

To complete an agreement, adds the leader of the OL, "the deadline is still the month of June because all the clubs will prepare their budget for the DNCG", the financial policeman of French football who examines their finances.

The clubs must "absolutely" send their projections "before, at worst, June 30".

“In the past, we have seen that when we waited until the last minute, as was the case with Mediapro, behind it major difficulties ensued.

It's not good to wait until the last moment in terms of TV rights, ”Aulas noted.

Think about the consumer

The leader, who will celebrate his 72th birthday on March 22, is thinking of “infrastructure to set up”, but not only.

"Let us not forget that TV rights are the end consumer who must be satisfied even before the broadcasters", he said.

“It would be nice if everything was stopped before the July holidays.

I know that the teams of Vincent Labrune and Mathieu Ficot (respectively president and deputy general manager of the LFP) are already working hard on this, and certainly that we will have to work with them ”, he said. he concluded.

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