LFP TV rights: "It is the survival of several football clubs that is at stake" (C. Lepetit, CDES)

"This situation (the non-payment of Mediapro) is simply not tenable neither for the LFP, nor for the clubs, which receive half of their income, even 60% or 65% for some clubs, via TV rights. It is the survival of several football clubs that is at stake, especially since they are real victims of the pandemic with totally dry matchday revenues and a very sharply declining transfer market this summer," said Christophe Lepetit, head of economic studies at the French Center for Law and Economics of Sport (CDES), on 20/10/2020.

Christophe Lepetit participated in the webinar organized by News Tank Football and titled "LFP / Mediapro TV rights: what possible outcomes to the crisis?", alongside Pierre Maes, media rights consultant and author of the book "The football TV rights business", and Arnaud Simon, managing director of In&Out Stories, a media consulting company for sports organizations.

"In the event of an unfavorable scenario, several clubs would quickly find themselves insolvent, and only those with very solid shareholders capable of injecting liquidity or those capable of…