LFP TV rights: "The former exec team of the LFP took us for a cash drawer" (M. Saada, Canal+)

"We haven't given up on football. We just treated them (the LFP) the way they have treated us lately, on a strictly contractual basis. The former professional football league executive team took us for a cash drawer. Whenever we had a request, such as a change in match times (from 20:45 to 21:00 CET on Sunday for the 2016-2020 cycle), we were told that it was not in the contract and that we had to pay more. Which I found totally shocking. Especially since this change of schedule allowed, in our opinion, to increase the audience by 200,000 viewers. From there, we decided to use exactly the same methods (with the LFP)," said Maxime Saada, chairman of the management board of the Canal+ group, to the French media L'Equipe on 19/09/2020.

Regarding the distribution of the new Téléfoot channel: "We have tried all the other routes, we have been discussing without any progress for a month, we see the matches go by and we do not offer the channel. I do not want our subscribers to think that we do not want to distribute Téléfoot. We have a hypothesis, that of being discriminated against (by…