France: "We are bottom of the class" (Bernard Caïazzo, at the Première Ligue convention)
"...The amount of the German (domestic) TV rights for €1.4bn per year is almost double that of the French domestic rights. Then (we are also) behind the untouchable English, whose TV rights reach €3.7bn (per year), then there are the Spaniards at €1.6bn per season, and the Italians at €1.2bn. Then us, the French, we are bottom of the class,...
