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The incredible reason Barcelona tried to breach their lucrative Nike deal has been revealed - with the club now set to renew their contract with the sportswear giant.
Nike have supplied kits for the LaLiga club since 1998, almost a decade before their famous maroon and blue shirts included a main sponsor for the first time, but the partnership looked at risk with Barca president Joan Laporta keen to move on.
The deal, worth just under £90million-a-year, has been updated several times and is currently set to run until June 2028. An extension is now likely, however, with Barcelona exhausting all of their options after looking for alternatives.
In recent weeks, Nike delegates arrived in Barcelona to meet with Laporta but, according to Sport, left quickly after disagreements over the proposal.
Puma had also made an offer to the club and Laporta is believed to have been more inclined to accept this proposal instead. In doing so, though, Barcelona risked landing a significant fine for a
