The Barça for negotiation with H&M by the conflict of the company with China

The Barcelona had advanced the negotiations with the signature of Swedish clothes H&M so that the company was the new sponsor of the clothes of walk of the footballers of the first team, but the commitment of the Swedish mark of not using cotton of Xinjiang by the complaints of supposed use of work forzoso is the main reason by which the Barcelona directive detained the negotiations, since they do not want to initiate a conflict with the Chinese diet.

Like this it advanced it the Newspaper PLOUGHS and arrived it to confirm the agency EFE by near sources to the club, that explained that the main fears were born from a sector of the department of communication and the office of the club in Hong Kong. These ensure that the Barcelona entity was transparent with H&M on the main reason by which has wanted to stop the agreement.

The official version of the directive of the Barcelona group is that there is not any negotiation ready to close with a mark so that it commission of the clothes of walk of the club. Besides, they sustain that in this moment the active neither supposes a priority because there are other more important subjects that require to be treated with shortness. To have enclosed, this sponsorship could have provided some 3 million annual euros to the club.

What said H&m

The past year H&M reported in a communiqué that different civil organisations had spread the existence of fields of work forced northeast of China, in the region of Xinjiang, where would have subjected to works forced to Muslim citizens of the etnia uigures.

Afterwards of this, the Chinese diet took reprisals of China against H&M, and at present the Swedish mark does not appear in some of the on-line available webs of the Asian country and his more than 500 shops there do not exist in the systems geolocalizadores.

Another sponsorship of interest

The fears of the leaders of the Barça owe also to the negotiations to renew the agreement of sponsorship with a Chinese company, the manufacturer of electronic products Oppo, that would contribute roughly the double of money that H&M and that has another sponsor, the company of safe Taiping Life Insurance, that is property of the Chinese diet.

In 2018, the Barcelona closed an agreement of sponsorship with the North American company Thom Browne so that it went the attendant to provide him clothes of street to the players and to the technical body of the first masculine team. The agreement signed by three years and finishes this summer.