AC Milan are set to extend their sponsorship deal with Adidas until 2016, according to the Corriere dello Sport.

The contract with the giant German sports manufacturer will earn the Rossoneri €10.5m a season, meaning that between now and 2016 the club will receive €84m.

This figure is somewhat less than the €140m that Inter will earn with Nike over the next 10 years, but it still represents an impressive deal.

The money that Milan will make will be largely used to buy a series of young players.

This Sunday 18-year-old wonderkid Alexandre Pato will make his debut for the club, but without the Brazilian the Rossoneri have the highest average age of Serie A: 31 years.

At the beginning of next season Milan aim to cut this median to 28 by offloading a number of veterans.

The 39-year-old Paolo Maldini will retire, while Cafu (37), Serginho (36), Ba (35), Fiori (38) and probably Dida (35) will all be released.

Ronaldo, who turns 32 later this year, also has much work to do if he is to convince the club to renew his contract that runs out at the end of the season.


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Inter earn 14m a season
Barca is already earning 15m, but will soon sign a contract 30m/season.

and Milan 10m what is happening with these contracts??

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I know, I've been major depressed since the news came out. We should introduce competition in the team for sponsors as well.

Bring in Puma...that ought to light a fire under the other Dassler's @ss.
And the Puma Azzuri jersey was pretty cool.

I am sure NIKE would pay double.

This sucks!

Of course they won't invest on a team that plays for the 4th spot in the league.

Ex: Check out Sevilla's contract with Joma...

Madrid and Man Utd are the ones with the biggest contracts I think.
Inter... maybe if they confirm their new deal with nike. Same for Barcelona. Bayern have a top deal with adidas too, if I'm not mistaken.

If you don't invest you won't get anything back.

How much do Real and Liverpool get from their deals with Adidas, anyone know?

Something's wrong with us... we're the number one club in the world but we earn as if we're the number ten or something. maybe it's time to switch to Nike?

Sure , why not sell our souls as well.

I dont think Nike will fit with Milan

I have to agree with you on this

For me Adidas = football while Nike = corporate BS.

Manu have the highest turnover in the world and the most fans, that is why they have such a big contract. I think merderid are the second highest.

I agree with the first part though in that if we started to invest then perhaps we would reap the rewards. I think the term is 'speculate to accumulate'

Nooooooooooooo

They would not offer more anyway...

naa, milan without the 3 stripes looks wrong

Not true.


And Madrid have more fans worldwide too I believe.

I don't look at it that way. But I prefer Adidas to Nike, anyday.

Don't know how they work these things out but Man. Utd claim to have 333 million fans worldwide how many do madrid claim to have?

It's something like BWIN deal, when we got 15m/season which was still lower than what ManU or Real get.

333? Well, I know a study from Harvard University...


I believe Juventus, Bayern and Liverpool may be between Man Utd and Barcelona.

But R.Madrid is the most supported club in the world. Always was. Not just the "best" historically, but the biggest too in fans and turnover.

Real Madrid is the most supported club in the world, there's no doubt about it. I think Manchester United come second. don't know about Milan's position though...

It just means that we are not that good when it comes to negotiations with the sponsors.

I don't think it's down to Milan to be honest. The whole league doesn't do a good job of promoting itself.

Didn't juventus manage to get a record deal before the calciopoli? so I don't understand why we can't get more money from the sponsors.

We are number one in the world so it should not be that hard.

The key wrd there is before caciopoli. Can't see Juventus getting a deal like that any time soon, and any other Serie A team for that matter. At least not until Serie A resolves all it's issues, as kurt said, it doesn't do a good job of promoting itself