ExclusiveRC Lens: "Buying the stadium would allow us to invest in it with real rights" (Arnaud Pouille)

"In recent months, RC Lens has approached the local authorities to find out to what extent they might be interested in the club buying the stadium. The purchase of the Stade Bollaert-Delelis (Lens, Pas-de-Calais) would allow us to invest with real rights on the infrastructure, because for a club to invest when it rents a stadium is not necessarily obvious: are we going to make investments for a next occupant?" said Arnaud Pouille, CEO of RC Lens (Ligue 1 Uber Eats), to News Tank Football on 26/04/2023

"The agreement with the investment company CVC for the creation of 'LFP Media', the League's commercial company, was a salvation. Finding €1.5bn at the end of the period experienced by French football is miraculous. Now, it must trigger a whole development logic, especially for French football rights. Beyond domestic, we must make progress on international rights."

"For the distribution between the clubs, everything was logical. But I found that for the ten or so clubs that received, like RC Lens, €33m, the gap was too big with the level above, which amounted to €80m."

"Some clubs manage…