"Ligue 1 must reform, and above all, regulate itself if it isn't to remain 2^nd class" (C. Roussel)

"French football can no longer afford to sit back and watch the trains go by. If Ligue 1 wants to avoid remaining in second class, it must reform itself, and above all regulate itself," said Cédric Roussel, ministerial delegate for the sports economy and the Olympic and Paralympic Games at the French Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, in an opinion piece entitled "French football, in the shadow of the Paris 2024 Olympic rings" published on 14/10/2024.

"Capping club salaries and a luxury tax redistributed to the lowest-spending teams are solutions to avoid a wage bubble which, by definition, always ends up bursting. Spain has shown that these mechanisms can work without undermining the attractiveness of its league. It's time to coordinate these reforms with other countries like Italy and Germany, to lay the foundations for a fairer and, above all, sustainable European football," added the former MP (LREM) for Alpes-Maritimes (2017-2022), who was notably rapporteur for the fact-finding mission on the audiovisual broadcasting rights of sporting…