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Diaranson 16 Maart 2022

Barcelona stadium becomes Spotify Camp Nou under sponsorship

(AP) — Barcelona’s sta- head into the next transfer Lionel Messi after last season
dium will be renamed the window more than 144 mil- because of its financial strug-
Spotify Camp Nou af- lion euros ($157 million) gles.
ter the club announced a over its spending limit.
sponsorship deal Tuesday Barcelona is back in the sec-
to ease some of its finan- The Spotify deal will help ond tier of European soc-
cial struggles. the club reduce that deficit cer after nearly two decades
and significantly improve contending among the elite
The agreement with the its spending power as the in the Champions League. It
streaming company includes league’s salary caps are largely plays Galatasaray in Turkey
sponsorship of the main shirt based on revenues, costs and on Thursday in the second
and title rights for the stadi- debts. leg of the round of 16 of the
um, which will have a spon- Europa League. The teams
sor name linked to it for the The negotiation with Spo- drew 0-0 in the first leg in
first time. tify had been ongoing for Barcelona last week.
some time, and Ferran Re-
Spotify will replace Japanese verter resigned as Barcelona’s Xavi Hernández’s team has
online retailing company Ra- CEO last month reportedly been playing well recently af-
kuten, which paid 55 million over disagreements within ter a tough start to the season
euros ($60 million) for the the club about the new deal, and is back to third place in
first four seasons with the though the club and Reverter the Spanish league after be-
club before extending it for said he left “for personal and ing near mid-table early on.
another, for reportedly 30 family reasons.”
million euros ($32 million). Spotify was recently involved
The Rakuten contract was Barcelona has been slowly in a controversy over content
set to expire at the end of this restructuring its finances by comedian Joe Rogan, who
season. after amassing huge debts has millions of devoted fans
because of the coronavirus but angered some people
The Spotify announcement pandemic and poor manage- who found his comments of-
came a day after the Spanish ment by previous administra- fensive.
league said Barcelona would tors. The club couldn’t keep

Titans release CB Jackrabbit Jenkins to

clear cap space

(AP) — The Tennessee Ti- agreed to a one-year deal games played.
tans have released veteran Tuesday with Houston de-
cornerback Janoris “Jackrab- fensive back A.J. Moore. The Jones has been a key piece of
bit” Jenkins after one season person spoke to The Associ- an offensive line that blocked
to clear approximately $6.9 ated Press on condition of for the league’s fifth-best
million in salary cap space anonymity because the con- rushing offense in 2021 and
before the start of the new tract cannot be finalized until for Derrick Henry’s 2,027-
league year. the new league year begins. yard season in 2020. Jones is
Moore played 55 games in one of only eight linemen to
The Titans announced the four seasons. start at least 96 of 97 possible
move Tuesday along with a games in his six seasons with
multi-year extension for cen- Tennessee drafted a pair of Tennessee, and his current
ter Ben Jones, keeping him cornerbacks in 2021, tak- streak of 40 straight is third
from the free agent market ing Caleb Farley in the first among centers.
that opens Wednesday after- round and Elijah Molden in
noon. the third. Farley finished the Since being drafted 99th
season on injured reserve, overall in 2012 by Houston,
Jenkins joined the Titans a but Molden had an intercep- Jones has started 160 of 161
year ago on a two-year con- tion and recovered a fumble possible games.
tract. He started 13 of 14 while starting seven of 16
games played and had one in-
terception in the end zone in
a big win over San Francisco
in December. Jenkins also
had 55 tackles, six passes de-
fensed and a forced fumble.

The 10-year veteran has
played for the St. Louis Rams,
New York Giants, New Or-
leans Saints and the Titans
and has 27 career intercep-
tions. He becomes the fourth
player released to create cap
space, joining left guard Rod-
ger Saffold, reserve lineman
Kendall Lamm and running
back Darrynton Evans.

A person familiar with the
contract says the Titans also