The skilled soccer league challenges Gérard Larcher over the work of a Senate info mission | EUROtoday

The tone is rising between the Professional Football League (LFP), chaired by Vincent Labrune, and the Senate info mission on “the intervention of investment funds in French football”. While the rapporteur Michel Savin (Isère, Les Républicains, LR) is meant to submit his report on the finish of October, the LFP despatched a protracted, indignant letter to the President of the Senate, Gérard Larcher, to “alert” on the positions taken and the communication of this mission “which today seems to respond to a politico-media agenda unknown to the body” and which she considers as a “unbearable interference in the normal functioning of the body”significantly on the time of Mr. Labrune’s re-election on September 10.

In this missive dated October 4, additionally despatched to the French Football Federation and of which The World has taken observe, the LFP is especially outraged by the press launch printed on October 2 on the Senate web site by Mr. Savin and Laurent Lafon (Val -de-Marne, Union of Democrats and Independents), president of the mission. The senators denounced the “trompe l’oeil reduction” of Vincent Labrune’s wage towards a backdrop of failure through the allocation of tv rights to Ligue 1 this summer season.

Based on info from The Teamthe 2 senators had deplored the “doubling of the salary of the president of the LFP” voted in 2022, the day earlier than the official announcement, by the League, of the 30% discount on this remuneration (from 1.2 million euros yearly to 840,000 euros), validated by the board of administrators. Just because the renunciation, by Mr. Labrune, of his “lump sum end-of-term compensation” of 5.4 million euros.

For the LFP, “this episode is only a new illustration of what the information mission seems to date less attached to informing on a subject of general interest, than to publicly passing judgment on all the decisions taken by and at within the body”.

“Confusions and misinterpretations”

She condemns “the accusations under the cover of interrogations”THE “insinuations and the presentation as partial as it is catastrophic of the situation of French football” and lists a number of interventions, which might fall below a “political-media instrumentalization”. In specific the interview given by Mr. Savin to The Teamon June 27, the day after a listening to within the Senate by Mr. Labrune, or the press convention of the 2 parliamentarians, on September 12, after a “check on documents” on the Paris headquarters of the LFP. During this, the senators “have multiplied hasty judgments and postulates devoid of any goal component », accuses the establishment.

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