Barcelona fans give their backing to sponsorship deal with Rakuten

Barcelona fans give their backing to sponsorship deal with Rakuten

A large number said they were happy with the contract the club had agreed 

The majority of Barcelona socios rate the new sponsorship deal with Rakuten, which will begin in the summer, as either "really good" or "quite good". 

Those are the results which have emerged from the club's bi-annual survey for the month July to December 2016, which were presented in a press conference on Monday by club spokesman Josep Vives. 

"The valuation of this contract is excellent," said Vives after 88.6 percent of socios surveyed gave their backing to the deal. 

Going further, 44.8 percent said that the replacement for Qatar Airways was a "very good" deal and 43.8 percent said it was "quite good." 

Just six percent said it was "satisfactory", with 0.6 percent saying it was "bad" and another 0.6 percent opting for "really bad." The rest of the socios did not respond.