Barcelona shirt sponsor

[soggy biscuit]

5 year €150 Million shirt sponsorship deal with Qatar Foundation. Unicef will also still be on the shirt.

[PEARCEY]

Is this true? Bit of a cop out by Barca if it is.

[Tinrib]

More to do with Barca's debt - 370m euros -

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

If I didn't know better I'd say putting UNICEF on the shirt in the 1st place was all to get people used to seeing a logo on the shirt so they could move into shirt sponsorship.

[Tails]

Doesn't this belong in either the World Cup thread or Qatar 2022?

[leww_rfc]

If I didn't know better I'd say putting UNICEF on the shirt in the 1st place was all to get people used to seeing a logo on the shirt so they could move into shirt sponsorship.

Well made point, but it shouldn't matter! Unicef felt the benefits either way!

[Jerry St Clair]

If I didn't know better I'd say putting UNICEF on the shirt in the 1st place was all to get people used to seeing a logo on the shirt so they could move into shirt sponsorship.

Report in The Guardian yesterday said that Joan Laporte had tried to get a shirt sponsor before UNICEF, but had failed to close the deal.