The tone is rising between the Professional Football League (LFP), chaired by Vincent Labrune, and the Senate’s information mission on “The intervention of investment funds in French football”. While the rapporteur Michel Savin (Isère, Les Républicains, LR) is due to present his report at the end of October, the LFP sent a long and angry letter to the president of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, to “alert” on the positions adopted and the communication of this mission “which today seems to respond to a political-media agenda unknown to the organization” and that she considers as “unbearable interference with the normal functioning of the body”particularly at the time of Mr. Labrune’s re-election on September 10.
In this letter of October 4, also sent to the French Football Federation and from which the world Taking note of this, the LFP is especially outraged by the press release published on October 2 on the Senate website by Savin and Laurent Lafon (Val-de-Marne, Union of Democrats and Independents), president of the mission. The senators denounced “Trompe l’oeil reduction” of Vincent Labrune’s salary in a context of failure during the awarding of Ligue 1 television rights this summer.
Based on information from The teamthe two senators had deplored the “doubling of the salary of the president of the LFP” voted in 2022, the day before the official announcement, by the League, of the 30% reduction of this remuneration (from 1.2 million euros annually to 840,000 euros), validated by the board of directors. As well as Mr. Labrune’s resignation from his “global compensation at the end of the term” of 5.4 million euros.
For the LFP, “This episode is just a new illustration of how the information mission today seems less attached to reporting on a topic of general interest than to publicly judging all the decisions made by and within the agency.”
“Confusions and misinterpretations”
she condemns “accusations under the pretext of interrogations”HE “Insinuations and presentation as partial as it is catastrophic of the situation of French football” and lists several interventions that would be included in a “Political-media instrumentalization.” In particular, the interview given by Mr. Savin to The teamon June 27, the day after a Senate hearing by Mr. Labrune, or the press conference of the two parliamentarians, on September 12, after a “verify documents” at the Paris headquarters of the LFP. During this, the senators “they have multiplied hasty judgments and postulates devoid of any objective element”accuses the institution.
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