Canal+ opens the door to a return to Ligue 1!

These are statements that may make a lot of noise in the audiovisual and French football world. While the conflict between Dazn and the LFP gets bogged down on the question of breaking the contract between the two institutions at the end of the season, Canal+ could make a comeback in the TV rights game. The reason? The arrival of Nicolas de Tavernost at the head LFP Media, which markets the famous diffusion rights, delighted the pattern of the encrypted chain, Maxime Saada.

“Put it around the table as an interlocutor is a good way to get me back on the subject of Ligue 1he explains in remarks reported by The team. We can dialogue with him and I will. But I do not forget the damage that was caused to us during the previous contract. ” If the leader does not excuse everything, he however recognizes that the arrival of the former Boss of the Girondins of Bordeaux and especially of M6 of which he is close, is good news to reconnect with the League.

Saada and Tavernost are appreciated

Canal+ has still not digested the end of its partnership with the LFP, especially after the Fiasco Mediappro. The historic broadcaster of the French championship is still in conflict for the period 2021-2024 where he had 20% of the championship diffusion rights against € 332 million, where Amazon was paying € 250 million per year for the remaining 80%. Canal has always denounced this agreement which he describes as an inequity of treatment and considers that Vincent Labrune has never taken a step aside to alleviate his misfortunes.

The president of the LFP still appears today as the main obstacle to a return of the encrypted chain. The good relations between De Tavernost and Saada could change the situation even if the latter warns. “I said to him immediately (at de Tavernost):” I think the descent is not finished for Ligue 1 and make sure, if you take the job, not to be blamed for the rest of the descent “. Conversely, if he succeeds, as everyone knows that the mission is complicated, it will make one more feather in his hat. It must please him, this challenge: to succeed where there is a failure. ” The foot is wedged in the door.