Milan agree shirt sponsor deal with Emirates

Dubai government-owned Emirates airline is to sponsor Milan from next season in a four-year shirt deal worth around €50 million ($68.31 million), a source close to the Italian club said yesterday. The Arab world's largest airline, which also sponsors...

Dubai government-owned Emirates airline is to sponsor Milan from next season in a four-year shirt deal worth around €50 million ($68.31 million), a source close to the Italian club said yesterday.

The Arab world's largest airline, which also sponsors Arsenal's stadium among other European soccer endorsements, will replace Austrian online betting group bwin as Milan's shirt sponsor from July 2010 until June 2014.

The deal, to be announced in Milan "in the next few days" in the presence of the airline's chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, does not include the sale of a stake in the club as some media outlets had previously reported.

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