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For sake of completeness Nantes finish in the relegation playoff spot where they will play Toulouse who saw off Grenoble.

On the European front PSG & Monaco take the other UCL spots with Lyon & Marseille the Europa spots & lastly Rennes take the Conference spot.

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Yasss! So happy for Ottawa lad Jonathan David! After a slow start to his time with Lille he has been fantastic in the last 6 months. So happy for Lille and everyone like me who loves seeing the Petro Clubs get beat

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11 hours ago, Robin.Hood said:

Christophe Galtier’s priority is OGC Nice since April. The agreement is ‘imminent’ and expected to be completed in the next days. Just last details to be fixed then Galtier will sign his agreement with Nice. 🇫🇷🤝 

Strange to go backwards?

I read the other day that Nice have new owners, so maybe they are going to invest a fair bit to push them on.

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12 hours ago, Robin.Hood said:

Christophe Galtier’s priority is OGC Nice since April. The agreement is ‘imminent’ and expected to be completed in the next days. Just last details to be fixed then Galtier will sign his agreement with Nice. 🇫🇷🤝 

Strange to go backwards?

A European podcast I listen to mentioned he is from that part of France so there may be personal reasons as well. 

38 minutes ago, PB1994 said:

I read the other day that Nice have new owners, so maybe they are going to invest a fair bit to push them on.

The owner of Ineos (Jim Ratcliffe, Britains richest man) also owns Nice, they are possibly going to have more money and potential than Lille in the next few years.

It's a shame that when teams break the stranglehold of the super rich clubs they get torn apart.

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Amazon secure domestic rights to Ligue 1
 

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Ligue 1’s ‘€825m’ Amazon deal sees Canal+ threaten blackout

Internet giant secures domestic rights to eight games per week in biggest soccer contract to date.

  • Amazon secures rights to 304 Ligue 1 games per season, including ten top pick fixtures
  • Canal+, whose deal to show 20 per cent of games is more expensive than Amazon contract, says it will ‘not broadcast Ligue 1’ 
  • Vivendi-owned pay-TV broadcaster previously sought to hand back rights following collapse of Mediapro deal

    Internet giant Amazon has secured the lion’s share of the domestic broadcast rights to French soccer’s Ligue 1 for the three seasons from 2021/22 until 2023/24. 

    The deal with the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) grants Amazon rights to 304 top-flight matches per season, which is equivalent to eight games per week. The rights package includes ten top pick games each year, along with 66 second and third picks, in addition to 304 matches from the second-tier Ligue 2.

    The financial terms of the deal have not been made public, but the Financial Times (FT) reports that Amazon has agreed to pay the LFP €275 million (US$333.2 million) per year.

    However, news of the deal prompted a furious response from Vivendi-owned pay-television broadcaster Canal+, which has a separate deal in place to show two games per week at a cost of €330 million (US$399.8 million) a season.

    Canal+ previously sought to hand back its rights, which it sublicenses from BeIN Sports, and called on the LFP to launch a new domestic broadcast tender following the collapse of the organising body’s deal with Spanish agency Mediapro.

    The LFP’s original agreement with Mediapro was worth a record €814 million (US$986.1 million) a year, but was terminated barely four months into its first season when the company failed to meet payment deadlines. 

  • BT Sport retains Ligue 1 UK broadcast rights until 2024

  • Canal+, which has repeatedly argued that its rights have been significantly devalued due to the collapse of the Mediapro contract, then stepped in to broadcast the remainder of the 2020/21 Ligue 1 season at a cut price. 

    However, in March, the broadcaster saw the Paris commercial court rule in favour of the LFP when it did not include the package previously acquired by Canal+ in its new domestic media rights auction. The latest tender therefore only included the rights relinquished by Mediapro. 

    Now, after seeing Amazon secure eight fixtures a week for a reported fee lower than what it pays for 20 per cent of the matches, Canal+ has threatened to boycott its agreement to broadcast Ligue 1 games.

    ‘After the failure of the choice of Mediapro in 2018, Canal + regrets the decision of the Ligue de Football Professionnel to retain Amazon's proposal to the detriment of that of its historic partners Canal+ and BeIN Sports,’ the company said in a statement.

    ‘Canal+ will therefore not broadcast Ligue 1.’

    The Canal+ statement added that the broadcaster will instead focus on its coverage of the Uefa Champions League, English soccer’s Premier League and the Top14 rugby union competition, as well as Formula One and MotoGP.

    For Amazon, the deal represents its biggest deal in soccer to date. The company has so far acquired smaller packages of rights to competitions such as the Premier League in the UK and the Champions League in Italy and Germany, but this will be the first time that it is the main domestic broadcaster for one of Europe’s so-called ‘big five’ leagues.

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