Turkish Airlines and Qatar Airways are two of the main candidates to replace DigitalBits as the main shirt sponsor of Inter starting next season.
This according to today’s print edition of Turin-based newspaper Tuttosport, via FCInterNews, who name the two airlines as the favourites to become the Nerazzurri’s main sponsor next season, with the club aiming for a deal worth around €30 million per season.
For the first time this season, Inter played without the logo of cryptocurrency company on their shirts.
Coming in the same weekend as Roma ditched the company’s logo for their Serie A match against AC Milan, the Nerazzurri reacted to the ongoing nonpayment of contractually owed amounts by DigitalBits by ceasing to have the company as their main shirt sponsor in a league match against Lazio.
Now, it is expected that Inter, as well as the Giallorossi, will go the rest of the season either without a shirt sponsor or with some other logo or graphic on their shirt in place of the cryptocurrency company’s logo.
What is clear is that both the Nerazzurri and the Rossoneri will also have to make a decision on who their new main shirt sponsor will be from next season onwards, as the partnership with DigitalBits is now certainly over.
Compared to the farcical, and financially damaging, situation that the €85 million four-year deal with DigitalBits has become, Inter are looking for a deal worth in the region of €30 million per season.
A number of names have been linked in this respect, from Turkish Airlines to HiSense and LeoVegas, whilst in recent days the name of Qatar Airways has also been floated.
According to Tuttosport, it is now the two airlines Turkish Airlines and Qatar Airways who are the favourites as the club get closer and closer to the point of making a decision in the summer.
