Manchester United's Carrington training ground is to be renamed the Aon training complex as part of a ground-breaking naming rights agreement worth around £15m a season.
The eight-year deal, which starts in July, gives the American insurance giant the right to display its logo on training kit for friendly and competitive domestic fixtures.
Aon will also become United's "presenting" partners for overseas tours starting with this summer's trip to the Far East.
The move will inevitably lead to concerns from some United supporters that the club's American owners, the Glazer Family, will now seek to cash in again by selling the lucrative naming rights for Old Trafford.
But the club's executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward insisted that "Old Trafford will not be sold".
United sources added that the Glazers see Old Trafford as the "heart and soul" of the club and do not want to do anything that might jeopardise that ..continue reading
Aon will also become United's "presenting" partners for overseas tours starting with this summer's trip to the Far East.
But the club's executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward insisted that "Old Trafford will not be sold".
United sources added that the Glazers see Old Trafford as the "heart and soul" of the club and do not want to do anything that might jeopardise that ..continue reading
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