Would you accept having a sponsor on the Barça shirt?

[Murph]

Who voted to sell our soul to the highest bidder?

[cule05]

Who voted to sell our soul to the highest bidder?

i bet it was GIO!!!!
gio oh gio where are youuu?????

[Lemmiwinks]

i felt like being an arse

i was actually sulking becos it said on football elite the deal to have betandwin next season is complete, 50m over 3 years.

[IndoCulé]

Let's hope no sponsors will be made to our beautiful shirts.

[Omar]

if that was to happen in anyway, i think it should be above 20m! per season, since its the club's first sponser,,,, not 50m for 3 seasons = 16m per season, thats a louzy sum

[Murph]

50m is a huge part of our debt paid off though. I think that is the reason why the club won't dismiss the idea completely.

[Omar]

iknow 50m is huge, but last year they said it was going to be the most paid shirtsponser in the world, and 16m per season is not the best sponsered shirt in the world, i think madrididstia new shirtdeal = 19m per season with BenQ,, so we need a better figure since we play the best foobtball on planet! and surely better than madrid's one!, AT LEAST

[Murph]

If we were to ruin our shirt, it couldn't be for less than 25mill a season.

[Omar]

exactly thats what am saying, although 25m is impossible figure but sounds nice:P,,, i know madrid's new one is 19m and juve is already 19m, chelsea samsung 14 or 12 am not sure,, so 20-22m for barca would be good

[Guest]

If we were to ruin our shirt, it couldn't be for less than 25mill a season.

Very true.

[IndoCulé]

Same thoughts IraqiCulé. I always thought having plain shirt (without sponsorship) is the best. I still believe the 'UNICEF' thing ruined our shirt, maybe that's because we did not have sponsorhip before.

[maniaFCB]

The UNICEF agreement is the one exception to the shirt sponsorship that didn't hurt the club's great image. Instead of selling out, we are giving back. No other club has the high ideals or self justificiation to do something like this. I will dearly disappointed if that sponsorship is true, but it is probably an inevitability in today's economic climate.
On a side note, the idea of shirt sponsors is foreign to us here in the states. I don't think any major sports clubs have sold advertising space across the chest of the shirt. The shirt should be sacred and not for sale.

[IndoCulé]

Laporta OUT!

Etisalat Is New Premium Sponsor

FC Barcelona and telecommunications company Etisalat have signed a commercial agreement and sponsorship deal for the next four years, that will increase annually.

It is one of the biggest deals between the world of sport and telecommunications as it will establish joint commitment in the field of corporate social responsibility. As part of Etisalat's economic agreement the company, that is one of the biggest in the Middle East with a base of around 80 million clients, will contribute to the FC Barcelona Fundación.

Etisalat become a Premium Sponsor of the Blaugrana and that will them to use components of Barça's mobile phone network, the club's television assets and have publicity around the pitch and the stadium, to sell merchandising, celebrate company functions and meetings in the FC Barcelona facilities, organise friendly matches as well as use the club's playing fields. That means they will the image, publicity, hospitality, promotional and social rights.

Global supplier of telecommunications

Recognised as the pioneer of telecommunications in the United Arab Emirates, Etisalat has three decades at the top, innvoating and leading technology in the MIddle East. They are seen as a company that helps to connect people, local and international business, supply ISP and mobile content around the world via phones, international and fixed line technology.

Etisalat has been acclaimed as the main company for international voice communications in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, as they are present in 18 different countries. twelfth largest in the world with more then 510 agreements in place that help connect around 186 countries through BlackBerry, 3G and voice services. Their internet service is impressive too in the Middle Easy with Points of Presence in New York, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris and Singapore. Etisalat provides a global reach thanks to all the services that it offers.

In that sense, president Joan Laporta explained that the deal is only good new for FC Barcelona. "This agreement is the most important ever signed by FC Barcelona on an international level," he explained. "The agreement means that we will be present in large part of the developing world. We are very pleased and we want to become even stronger."

An array of services

As well as communication services, Etisalat also provides a great variety of other things in the field of technology including managing information, producing SIM cards, payment solutions, liquidation payment services, peering, voice and data traffic and terrestrial and underwater wiring.

Etisalast is also one of the main investors in Thuraya, one of the most important geomobile systems of communication in the world, that covers two thirds of the planet.

Article taken from: http://www.fcbarcelona.com/web/english/ ... 07134.html

[pabz]

If it brings us more income, then why not. It's not going to interfere with the Unisef deal that's in place.
Barca is a big Club and it deserves to be up there with the likes of the Mancs and Madrid Scum.

[dee08fcb]

i like the shirt as it is we shouldnt change it but if its a sponsor that wont appear on the shirt but will get us a good bit of money then i dont see why not