Qatari Sponsorship?

[cloggypop]

A director at Ooredoo (formerly Qatar Telecom), is quoted by Al Jazeera saying:

“The goal was to sponsor a big English club with a huge history, our search included Arsenal & Manchester United but the former two have long sponsorship deals and the same applies to Manchester City so Liverpool is the only club available right now.”
“We want to sponsor the club in full. We want to sponsor the Stadium (possibly rename it) as well as the club’s kits. Our goal is to reach the Asian markets where the Premier League has an enormous fan base.”
“We received the tender from the club a few days ago and we are currently in the process of due diligence and we are studying each aspect of the study.”
“It is a dual interest, Liverpool needs the money to compete with the European heavyweights and we want to expand our brand to reach new markets via football.”​

Liverpool are currently sponsored by Standard Chartered, in a deal that is worth £20m per year, but that expires next summer.
In October last year, managing director Ian Ayre said “There won’t be a naming rights deal for Anfield.”
http://www.thisisanfield.com/2013/04/qatari-company-seeking-to-sponsor-liverpool-and-rename-anfield/

I am going to read and pronounce Ooredoo in the style of the great Vic Reeves.

 

[OLD_Lewy]

i dont really care about the naming rights to the stadium to be honest, id rather have the money

 

[FoxForceFive]

I'm gonna say in the style of 'aww-wee-ooo', quite a sing song style.

 

[juniormember]

Weird way of announcing such talks.
'We wanted all these other teams but had to settle for Liverpool who won't have a sponsor next year'

 

[Mystic]

due diligence? isn't that something which happens when purchasing a company?

 

[FoxForceFive]

The ooredoo arena. Fuck sake.

 

[Athens]

Too many vowels.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

Maybe we can be Ooredoo Stadium!

 

[gkmacca]

It'll sound as if Scooby Doo is in charge of the club. Actually, he couldn't make more of a mess than the current lot.

 

[cloggypop]

The ooredoo arena. Fuck sake.

It has got red in the middle.

 

[Athens]

It has got red in the middle.

And Re-do.

Could be on to something there.

 

[Y1]

OOOOOOOOOooooo RED oooooOOOOOOOOO

There is a song there, somewhere.

 

[FoxForceFive]

Maybe we can be Ooredoo Stadium!

Well that's better. Or not.

Ooredoo sounds just like the words my five year old keeps making up to rhyme with poo in his songs.

I'd love to work for the image naming company that took the cash off the cunts for that name.

They must have been pissing themselves silly.

 

[FoxForceFive]

OOOOOOOOOooooo RED oooooOOOOOOOOO

There is a song there, somewhere.

I fucking hope not.

 

[FoxForceFive]

It has got red in the middle.

So has a jam sandwich.

 

[Athens]

Well that's better. Or not.

Ooredoo sounds just like the words my five year old keeps making up to rhyme with poo in his songs.

I'd love to work for the image naming company that took the cash off the cunts for that name.

They must have been pissing themselves silly.

It's a word from a country that sounds like catarrh, what do you expect?

 

[Judge Jules]

Weird way of announcing such talks.
'We wanted all these other teams but had to settle for Liverpool who won't have a sponsor next year'

I can see how it could be read like that, but I don't think that's what they were saying. I reckon they meant they looked at all the top clubs in the Prem, including us, and the others happened to have much longer to run on their sponsorship deals.

 

[FoxForceFive]

It'll look ok on the kits at least, better than the current logo that takes up 70% of the shirt.

 

[FoxForceFive]

It means 'I want' in Arabic.


The negotiations should go like this:
Ayre: Ooredoo piles of cash to buy good players instead of the current dross. Please.

 

[Fallon]

OOOOOOOOOooooo RED oooooOOOOOOOOO

There is a song there, somewhere.

There's a shooting stars sketch in there, somewhere.

 

[cloggypop]

So has a jam sandwich.

And the arm of Ivanovic.

 

[Squiggles]

We should bite their hands off.

Er, Luis?

 

[jexykrodic]

OOOOOOOOOooooo RED oooooOOOOOOOOO

There is a song there, somewhere.

Fuckin' hope not, but could it be:

(To the tune of Da Do Ron Ron by the Crystals)

Got charged by the FA and I fucked it up
Ooredoo run run
Ooredoo run run

Thought about appealing
But I lost my nerve
Ooredoo run run
Ooredoo run run

Still paying Luis
While he's on the beach
Ooredoo run run
Ooredoo run run

Somebody told me that my rhymes were shit
Ooredoo run run
Ooredoo run run

So I went to the cloakroom
Then I fucked off quick
Ooredoo run run
Ooredoo run run

 

[localny]

Naming rights usually involves 150-200M for big clubs? Unless I am missing something, this is AMAZING news.

We could buy 5 Suarez's and 6 Stevie G's!

 

[FoxForceFive]

Naming rights usually involves 150-200M for big clubs? Unless I am missing something, this is AMAZING news.

We could buy 5 Suarez's and 6 Stevie G's!

Stevie G cost us fuck all.

 

[Skullflower]

infinite stevie g's

 

[My_Blood_Bleeds_Red]

The Oreo stadium.

 

[gkmacca]

"Please stand by for Operation Oorredoo".

 

[FoxForceFive]

infinite stevie g's

That made me think of 'rimmer world' the red dwarf episode.

Only with little tiny grimacing stevies & Phil Collins playing in the background.

 

[Woland]

We should bite their hands off.

Er, Luis?

But they chop hands off over there.