09-15-2009, 05:11 AM
Hi guys,
Do you know this?
Rafael Benitez to benefit from £80m Liverpool sponsorship deal in transfer market:
![[Image: liverpool-shirt_1480872c.jpg]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01480/liverpool-shirt_1480872c.jpg)
Liverpool's record £80 million, four-year sponsorship deal with Standard Chartered Bank will enable the club to offer Rafael Benítez more support in next year’s transfer market, managing director Christian Purslow has confirmed.
Owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett have been criticised this summer by fans for failing to offer Benítez funds to strengthen his squad beyond those raised through sales as they attempted to refinance the £350 million loan from the Royal Bank of Scotland and Wachovia with which they financed their 2007 takeover.
he spectre of further transfer windows in which Benítez must balance the books has receded, though, after Purslow confirmed the revenues from the club’s largest ever commercial deal — which, at £20 million per season until 2014, means Liverpool’s sponsorship income now matches that of Manchester United’s agreement with Aon, the most lucrative in the Premier League — would be ploughed back into the team.
Do you know this?
Rafael Benitez to benefit from £80m Liverpool sponsorship deal in transfer market:
![[Image: liverpool-shirt_1480872c.jpg]](http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01480/liverpool-shirt_1480872c.jpg)
Liverpool's record £80 million, four-year sponsorship deal with Standard Chartered Bank will enable the club to offer Rafael Benítez more support in next year’s transfer market, managing director Christian Purslow has confirmed.
Owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett have been criticised this summer by fans for failing to offer Benítez funds to strengthen his squad beyond those raised through sales as they attempted to refinance the £350 million loan from the Royal Bank of Scotland and Wachovia with which they financed their 2007 takeover.
he spectre of further transfer windows in which Benítez must balance the books has receded, though, after Purslow confirmed the revenues from the club’s largest ever commercial deal — which, at £20 million per season until 2014, means Liverpool’s sponsorship income now matches that of Manchester United’s agreement with Aon, the most lucrative in the Premier League — would be ploughed back into the team.