[Front Office Sports] Ligue 1 is considering playing regular-season matches in the USA to bolster upcoming media deals
[Front Office Sports] Ligue 1 is considering playing regular-season matches in the USA to bolster upcoming media deals
France’s top flight is in the final season of its media rights deals and wants to boost its financial value exponentially with new contracts.
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That's a wild extrapolation of a random executive saying they have to bring "games that matter" to the US in an empty sales pitch to attract US broadcasters to buy Ligue 1 rights.
If anything, that sounds a lot more like the Supercup trophy, that is already played abroad anyway.
No way fans let this happen.
Ez, bring back the Coupe Drago and have it played in exotics places, during the CdF games.
Or create like a Coupe des Clubs Champions (de l1) where you have the past winners play where there used to be 4 more matchdays, like either you start L1 in September/last W-E of August and have that in the US (it's 4 matchs) or just before/after international breaks (not the entire competition at once in that case)