Ligue 1 TV rights: Canal Plus has offered LFP Media an offer to distribute its future channel

The Canal Plus group, a long-standing partner of French football and at odds with the LFP for several years, has written to the body's commercial company to propose a distribution deal, AFP learned from sources close to the matter, confirming a report from the newspaper L'Equipe.

Although the two parties are still "far from an agreement", the encrypted channel has offered LFP Media and its new CEO Nicolas de Tavernost to take charge of the distribution of the future League channel which will broadcast the French Championship from next season.

For a minimum guarantee that remains to be determined for the League and therefore for the clubs, Canal Plus would like to co-broadcast with the Ligue 1 channel, the Sunday evening match, the most prestigious match of each day.

The group led by Maxime Saada also offers an alternative to its initial proposal by suggesting that it could be a more traditional distributor of the Ligue 1 channel like all other players in the market, with the advantage of benefiting from an unparalleled strike force in France.

Regarding the channel's production, the other project currently occupying Nicolas de Tavernost and his teams, LFP Media assures that it received various offers on Thursday, which are currently being analyzed, on the four lots it had put up for sale.