Qatar Airways mull sponsoring Liverpool

Qatar Airways is considering sponsoring a English Premier League soccer club, having received two recent approaches to do so, its chief executive said on Tuesday.

 "Two English teams have approached us. We told them that we would consider it ... but we are not yet ready to do it," Akbar Al Baker said at the Farnborough Airshow.

He said the approaches had come from clubs looking to build new stadia and that Qatar Airways favoured a deal involving stadium naming rights - similar to Arsenal's deal with Dubai-based Emirates Airline.

"If we do it we would like to do it in a big way," he said.

English soccer clubs Liverpool and Tottenham are known to be considering building new stadia.
 

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