Zenit turn down a whopper of a deal for name change
Russian outfit Zenit St Petersburg have turned a bizarre offer of £5.73million to re-brand their club with the name ‘Zenit Burger King’.
The fast-food giants were ready to part with 500 million roubles to become the Europa League club’s main sponsors and sent a letter to them to declare their official interest.
Burger King has offered around 500M roubles to rename Zenit to Zenit-Burger King. That's crazy! pic.twitter.com/0MkSD1cOTG
— Stefano Conforti (@confortistefano) September 2, 2016
The Independent translated the document and confirmed that a lowly £5.73milllion was the offer on the table for Zenit officials to consider.
However, the club responded with an emphatic ‘no’ via their official Twitter account.
Who's the king?! pic.twitter.com/DMI9rKoHxz
— ФК «Зенит» (@zenit_spb) September 2, 2016