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Tuesday evening, Vincent Labrune surely thought of attending the quasi-repair of Aston Villa against PSG The heart lightened by the divorce acted with Dazn at the end of the season. His teleworking day had certainly been a little disputed internally, but she had led it where he wanted, namely to a vote of the board of directors in favor of a divorce with the main broadcaster at the end of the season, followed by a proposal to the British platform under the end of the mediation of the Paris Commercial Court. Proposal consisting in a payment of 140 million euros for the end of the season and compensation between 110 and 125 million euros for the next, requested from the broadcaster.
Lack of bowl, the tough torments of the boss of the LFP had also taken their tickets for a seat at Villa Park alongside Nasser Al-Khelaïfi and Dazn therefore decided to refuse the financial conditions of the League. “Mediation unfortunately did not allow enough to bring the points of view closer. It was therefore impossible to find – at this stage – an agreement for an amicable resolution of the situation, “said Dazn.
The LFP annoyed by Dazn's “no”
Everything is in the “at this stage”. And “at this stage”, it seems that the league is moderately satisfied with the turn of events. “It's still the world upside down, plague a source close to the LFP. They are the ones who do not pay. They are the ones who ask for mediation that is launched on the initiative of the Paris Economic Activities Tribunal. And they are the ones who refuse the mediator's proposal. »»
Dazn had actually opened hostilities by delaying half of his first payment of 2025 (35 million euros), then by claiming in court 573 million euros “for observed breach” and “deception on the goods”, considering himself penalized by hacking and insufficient operating conditions. So many reasons that would explain the fiasco of only 550,000 subscriptions sold.
The soap opera, and, for lack of immediate solution, the league hopes to perceive the last two sections of 70 million euros provided by the contract binding the two parties, the first being expected on April 30. In VO, it gives: “We are now waiting for Dazn fully executing all of his obligations. Nothing is less certain.
Relations are not likely to improve by magic. The British platform would like to renegotiate the contract with important variable shares, where the league would gladly jump into the first rescue canoe coming to give itself a minimum of latitude to prepare the suite, namely finally producing an LFP channel, in association with the MAX platform for what is a matter of distribution.
“Those under 45 do not pay for content”
“Going with Max is probably better than nothing,” observes Pierre Maes, specialist in the question of TV rights. But I wouldn't even dare to imagine how many subscribers in Max today. It shouldn't be huge. For the LFP, from zero or go with Max, what is it? Especially since the optimistic plan revealed by The team provided 1.8 million subscribers at the end of the first season and 553 million euros in income. Which would mean that the League and Max would succeed where Dazn failed.
« The difficulty is not to produce is not to make programs. It is to go and get subscribers with the teeth and especially to keep them. Today, we can still say, without really being wrong, that those who pay are at Canal. And we know that launching a single -produced toll television product is extremely difficult. I wouldn't say there is no chance, but it's not far away. In addition, we know that young people, that is to say below 45, do not pay for content. Piracy is flourishing. There is not worse as a condition for launching this type of product. »
May she be “condemned” to stay a year more with Dazn where she succeeds in freeing him, the league must embrace the issues of which it has long been discharged, leaving the leisure to solve the insoluble equation. “Today, Dazn complains about hacking, but if the channel project The League was to succeed, it will also have to fight hacking,” concludes the TV rights specialist. It will be his number one enemy. »»
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The reality is as follows: to the point where the LFP is, there will be no miracle solution, and to believe in a redeemer divorce would be yet another proof of naive. Whatever the road taken by Vincent Labrune and others, it will be long.
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