[united_07]

Chevrolet signs seven year deal

General Motors and Manchester United today announced that the world's most popular football club's shirt sponsor will be Chevrolet, beginning with the 2014/2015 season.

Chevrolet, the current Official Car Partner of the Club, will become only the fifth shirt sponsor in the Club’s 134 year history.

hmm

[Edgehead 26]

Yeah thats it Liverpool, why not?

http://store.liverpoolfc.tv/LFC-Carl...d-CARLINGCHAMP

[Kiz]

aged for 3 years? sounds like they were prepping up for a while

[Sleeper]

The sort of crap merch clubs peddle these days never ceases to amaze me. I remember a while back Fulham were selling Umbrella's with the Michael Jackson statue emblazoned on it. Literally could not be more random.

EDIT - LOL, it's still there: http://shop.fulhamfc.com/retproddeta...x?d=56&id=1440

[BANKSY]

Leon Best out for 6 months after recently signing for Blackburn for 3m.

Ouch.

[united_07]

unbelievable deal if true, £54m a year, more than double previous deal

General Motors Co signed a sponsorship deal with Manchester United valued at as much as nearly $600 million (382 million pounds) one day after the U.S. automaker's global marketing chief was ousted in connection with a deal with the popular English soccer club.
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Under the seven-year deal, which makes Chevrolet the jersey sponsor starting in the 2014-2015 season, GM will pay $60 million to $70 million a year -- at least double the current fee paid by insurance broker Aon, said a person with knowledge of the contract who asked not to be identified. GM also will pay the club a $100 million activation fee, the person said.
GM and Manchester United officials declined to reveal terms of the deal, which is separate from another sponsorship agreement announced in May with Manchester United. Terms of that five-year deal were not disclosed, but analysts said it is likely worth at least tens of millions of dollars.
GM also declined to discuss why global marketing chief Joel Ewanick was pushed out on Sunday. A GM spokesman previously said Ewanick, who has declined to comment on why he left, "failed to meet the expectations that the company has for its employees.
A source told Reuters that Ewanick failed to properly report financial details about a recent sponsorship deal with the soccer club. It was unclear which deal that refers to as GM on May 31 said it would take over as Manchester United's automotive sponsor, replacing Volkswagen's Audi brand.
Manchester United's current jersey sponsorship deal is with Aon, which pays $30 million a year for the right to put its name on the front of jerseys worn by players during games. That practice is quite lucrative for soccer clubs around the world, but is not allowed by most U.S. sports leagues.

[The Monster]

Originally Posted by united_07

unbelievable deal if true, £54m a year, more than double previous deal

That’s utterly bonkers but sort of brilliant at same time. This is not been leaked by accident imo the Glazers are about to put the club on New York IPO float soon, so by ''Leaking'' this information, they will hope that people/investors will see this & put money into IPO float as a result, clever tactic.

Also with new PL deal about to start with Sky Sports from 2013 onwards combined with our DHL shirt sponsors as well by 2014 say if won the PL title in May 2014 (Winning PL team earns £60M) of that year we could pocket around £124M (£54M off Chevrolet, £10M off DHL & £60M off PL title win) from those 3 things alone.

[united_07]

Originally Posted by The Monster

That’s utterly bonkers but sort of brilliant at same time. This is not been leaked by accident imo the Glazers are about to put the club on New York IPO float soon, so by ''Leaking'' this information, they will hope that people/investors will see this & put money into IPO float as a result, clever tactic.

Also with new PL deal about to start with Sky Sports from 2013 onwards combined with our DHL shirt sponsors as well by 2014 say if won the PL title in May 2014 (Winning PL team earns £60M) of that year we could pocket around £124M (£54M off Chevrolet, £10M off DHL & £60M off PL title win) from those 3 things alone.

Yeah just seen this

Man Utd announces IPO shares will be priced between $16-$20/share
MU offering of 16,666,667 Class A Ordinary Shares. Ticker symbol on NYSE will be MANU
Underwriters will have option to buy further 2,500,000 Class A Ordinary Shares

16m shares at $16-20 could raise over £200m


edit: bad news, just seen from andersred tweets the glazers have changed their tune and are taking 50% of the proceeds

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da...10287zf-1a.htm

[JOAL.com]

cant wait for glazers to take all that money and use it to buy mansions, yachts, ferraris, hookers and helicopters



btw anyone hear about ferdy being charged by the FA for abusing cole?

[EGame]

Lol'd at Rio getting charged over twitter.

Maybe that idiot will stop spending so much time on twitter now.