Téléfoot: "The clubs play the game if the broadcaster plays the game" (J-M Roussier, Mediapro)

"The clubs play the game if the broadcaster plays the game. We play the game. I preach based on my experience: there are broadcasters with whom, as a club leader, I have always played the game because these broadcasters also played along, beyond the financial aspect," said Jean-Michel Roussier, editorial director of Téléfoot, the French football pay-TV channel of the Chinses-Spanish audiovisual group Mediapro, to News Tank Football on 05/10/2020.

"Paris Saint-Germain is obviously different, by force of circumstance. There is a bit of confusion of genres (PSG and beIN Sports have the same Qatari owners). I did not necessarily expect something else. I knew this would be complicated. Paris Saint-Germain's relationship with the media is not simple, not only with us, but in general," said the ex-president of Olympique de Marseille (July 1995 - September 1999) and AS Nancy-Lorraine (October 2018 - February 2020).

"Téléfoot will not communicate (on its number of subscribers), in my opinion, until this is fixed by the operators and stabilized on the application. But the figures are fairly…