Achieve competitiveness and make the distribution of television rights profitable. Two persuasive arguments for Ligue 1 to go from having 20 clubs this season to 18 next season, as is already happening in the Bundesliga. The LFP decided to carry out this reorganization so that France could grow and have a leading role that now seems limited, with Spain and England above all as great international references.
This season, four teams will be assigned to Ligue 2. A painful path with a historic team like Strasbourg between life and death. Nantes, Cup finalists for the second year in a row, have only a two-point margin against the red zone. With seven days to go before the end of the league, the threat of having to say goodbye to the elite is real and worrisome in equal measure. One person will suffer the consequences.
In the same way, the return to Ligue 1 will be complicated. Unlike last season, this one is missing the promotion playoff. Only two teams will go up and Le Havre has every chance to be one of them, with an eleven point margin over Metz, third place. The Girondins avoided administrative relegation to the National and now, second in the table, they want to return to the top level after losing the category just a few months ago.
vincent labrune, president of the LFP, believes that these steps are necessary: ”This will create the right conditions for an ambitious reform plan for the future. The voted business plan expects to reach television rights of 1,800 million euros per year by 2028,” he said in an interview with the French newspaper Les Echos. Some figures that, if confirmed, could bring him closer to LaLiga or the Premier League competitively.
Source: La Verdad
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