FC Barcelona used social media and an email sent to the press to announce its new sponsorship deal with Nike which is believed to be the highest-paid in soccer.

Barcelona have announced a 14-year kit manufacturing deal with Nike worth £1.4bn in what is a record agreement of its kind. Despite murmurs of a fractious relationship between the Catalan club and the American sporting titan the deal will be worth around £105m per season for the LaLiga club.

FC Barcelona announced on Saturday that it had reached a new agreement with American equipment supplier Nike, a partnership that could reach 1.7 billion euros by 2038 according to the Spanish press. Nike has manufactured the Catalan club's jersey and other kits since 1998, and the previous agreement was due to expire in 2028.