The agreement of Rakuten won and the Barça handles three candidates by the sponsor

The valid agreement with Rakuten has finalised to the term of the present campaign after having been prorrogado by a year in full pandemia of the COVID-19, still with the managerial board of Josep Maria Bartomeu at the head of the FC Barcelona. It is thus, that the Catalan entity, now with Joan Lapota to the control, finds in crucial days to define which will be the sponsor from the season 2022-23.

Besides, the Barça needs to close what before an agreement with a company, since has on 31 July like deadline so that Nike activate the machinery of stamping of the new T-shirts for the course 2022-23. Thus, the precise American multinational know which logo has to head the central part of the zamarras. Up to now the club handles several proposals, three of them of the technological sector, and works very strong to achieve an agreement before the mentioned date, aim sources of the daily Sportive World.

It costs to require, that the Japanese Rakuten, that initiated his alliance with the Barça in the season 2017-18, also is immersed in the bidding according to the half, in spite of the incident occurred with the video viralizado recently and whose controversial involves to the Barcelona players Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembélé, those who were accused of racist by mofarse of some Japanese employees in turns it of the Barça in the summer of 2019. A situation that forced to Hirosihi Mikitani, CEO of Rakuten, to ask explanations to the FC Barcelona.

The answer of the FC Barcelona to Rkuten did not do expect and by means of a communiqué remembered that both players already had asked "apologies to the fans and Japanese partners" through personal accounts in the social networks, but warned that "it will follow taking the internal measures that they are necessary" so that said situation do not go back to repeat .

The renewal of Messi is key

On the other hand, the winner of the bidding for being the sponsor of the Barcelona T-shirt also will depend and a lot that it finish of oficializar the continuity of the Argentinian Leo Messi in the City Condal, afterwards that it remained without agreement in force after the vencimiento of the previous the past 30 June while it contested the Glass America with the selection of Argentina. The presence of 'The Flea' in the picture culé, will allow him to Laporta negotiate to the high with the patrocinantes.