Chevrolet - Proud Sponsor of Liverpool FC and Manc United

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19052970

Manchester United has signed a new deal to have its shirts sponsored by US car brand Chevrolet.

The deal for an "undisclosed amount" is for seven years and begins from the 2014-2015 season, the club said.

Chevrolet, which is made by General Motors, takes over from current sponsor Aon.

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In May, Chevrolet signed a deal to become the football club's car sponsor.

It also recently signed a similar car deal with Premier League rivals Liverpool.

I can't be the only one who finds this a little weird or even silly.

Why is that weird? *curious* In Germany, VW, Mercedes and Audi also have big sponsor deals with football teams. Heck, we even have Aston Martin sponsoring 1860!

rwo power wrote:Why is that weird? *curious* In Germany, VW, Mercedes and Audi also have big sponsor deals will football teams.

Because they both are rivals..One of the biggest rivalries in England infact.

Well, it is money. That way the Chevvy people get both sides

now they just need to get man city on board

couldn't find a shittier brand?

also i can't imagine they care about the rivalry, audi sponsor madrid, barcelona AND valencia lol

Now, it's clear that firing GM marketing chief is not because GM is not happy about partnering with Manchester United, because GM wants to sponsor both clubs.

Chevy is desperately trying to increase their sales and this is one way that could help them.

Personally I would never buy one of their cars. I'm happy with my '83 Porsche 944 and my '89 Acura Integra, and wouldn't trade it for any Chevy, new or old

Opel (who also belong to General Motors) decided to sponsor Borussia Dortmund. Much better choice

They are two different sponsorship

one is for their official car sponsorship and the newly signed one for Man U is the shirt

Rangers and Celtic both have the same sponsor
More money for Chevrolet

Both are also owned by Americans. GM is America's biggest automaker anyway so this isn't that surprising honestly.

It's reported that's it's worth 600m dollars over 7 years, a 65m sterling activation clause and 45m sterling per year

Mind boggling stuff

Oh hey Cyberman, don't remember seeing you ever here, then again I'm not around much

Chevy doesn't look too bad on the United kit, but the new plaid United kit looks god-awful anyway regardless of sponsor

Tablecloth f.c.

Manchester UNapkin

The actual weird thing, infact no the bonkers thing is in some other versions of this article have the top 10 sponsorship deals

and Sunderland come in joint 3rd

1. Barcelona - £25m-a-year (Qatar Foundation)

2. Bayern Munich - £23.6m-a-year (Deutche Telekom)

3. Manchester United - £20m-a-year (Aon)

3. Liverpool - £20m-a-year (Standard Chartered)

3. Manchester City - £20m-a-year (Etihad Airways)

3. Sunderland - £20m-a-year (Invest in Africa)

7. Real Madrid - £16.8m-a-year (Bwin)

8. Chelsea - £13.8m-a-year (Samsung)

9. Tottenham Hotspur - £10m-a-year (Autonomy & Investec)

9. AC Milan - £10m-a-year (Emirates)

9. Newcastle United - £10m-a-year (Virgin Money)

The benefits of having a former foreign secretary working for us

Woah.. Well played Sunderland. That's a great deal for you guys.

£51 mill a year

http://news.sky.com/story/968820/man-utd-smashes-shirt-sponsorship-record

And people were saying the United stock is bad.

great to see that bailout money going to a good cause...

Wait until a new Bayern deal

But I doubt it will be that high o_O

Good stuff!!

Now United have set the market rate we can add another £20Million onto our deal each season without those muppets at UEFA giving us grief.

Financial Fair Play?