The president of the FFF offers an in -depth overhaul of professional football – Liberation
Degraded image, drastic decrease in TV rights, uncertainty for the broadcast of Ligue 1 next season, hacking, club deficit estimated between 1.2 and 1.3 billion by the DNCG: professional football falls under most of its seams. What encourage the president of the FFF Philippe Diallo to take out heavy artillery to reform the whole. The president of the FFF presented this daily Monday, May 12 in the daily The team Details of« A rupture project » To get the professional sector out of the financial crisis and governance he crosses. Philippe Diallo offers in particular to draw inspiration from the model of our English neighbors, with the replacement of the Professional Football League (LFP) by a « Club society »: « a kind of French premier League. »
« The League in the form of a 1901 law association would give way to a commercial company whose clubs would be shareholders », explained the manager at a press conference reporting on the work initiated in March as part of the Estates General of French football.
This project also provides for a change in governance, with passage « A president currently elected » has « A management board of recruited professionals who will be agents appointed by clubs »which would amount to evolving « From an elective system to an appointment system » for the direction of the future league. The latter would then be « Employee and revocable ad Nutum (immediate) »specifies Philippe Diallo to our colleagues.
The FFF would occupy in this new organization « A significant place » : In this recovery on the league, which operates within the framework of a sub-delegation of power, a certain number of skills currently exercised by the LFP would go back to the Federation. Among them, the National Control and Management Directorate (DNCG), the financial gendarme of professional football, and the disciplinary committee, currently controlled by the LFP. A transfer of skills which has the favors of the president of the LFP Vincent Labrune, whose body, as we know it, would cease to exist.
The company manager of tricolor professional football, in addition to media valuation media management, still in its field of action, would also have in Charge « The material organization of the championship », specifies the boss of French football. To carry out his project, Philippe Diallo intends to rely on a bill of senators Michel Savin (LR) and Laurent Lafon (UDI), which must be examined on June 10. It should then be examined in the National Assembly this fall, for an implementation, at best, in the 2026-2027 season.
« We are not in cosmetics, but in an innovative project that changes the organization of professional football in France »assures Philippe Diallo to our colleagues.
