West Ham fans react to sharing stadium name with Turkish league giants
First it was Slaven Bilic moved from Besiktas to West Ham, then it was Gokhan Tore and now it seems the stadium name could be on its way to East London.
Sky Sports have reported that West Ham’s London Stadium has found a naming rights sponsor.
Per the source, Vodafone are on the verge of agreeing a £20 million deal to be the naming partner.
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The deal will reportedly be worth £3.3m-a-year, which will go to stadium owners LLDC.
The stadium could end up being called the Vodafone Arena, which would be the same name as the current Besiktas stadium.
The stadium was previously called the Inonu until Vodafone took over the naming rights in a similar deal to the one being proposed to West Ham.
We took a look at how West Ham fans reacted to the latest developments on social media.
It is probably about time that West Ham and Besiktas struck some sort of agreement together.
First it was Slaven Bilic, then we signed Gokhan Tore, now we’re playing at the Vodafone Arena. We are literally morphing into Besiktas
— Cartlon Cole (@_CarltonCole9) April 4, 2017
@_CarltonCole9 At least we can look forwards to winning the Turkish league ??
— Gazz H (@h_gazz) April 4, 2017
Besiktas’s stadium is called the Vodafone Arena. Our ground could be called Vodafone Stadium. Oooh.
— Pride of East London (@prideofeastldn) April 4, 2017
Besiktas ground is called Vodafone Arena so how can ours be called the same?
— CLARET AND BLUE ARMY (@MagicalMichail) April 4, 2017
Besiktas ground is called Vodafone Arena so how can ours be called the same?
— CLARET AND BLUE ARMY (@MagicalMichail) April 4, 2017
I’m quite alright with Vodafone getting the naming rights, same as besiktas.. it could be alot worse anyway
— Connor? (@_ConnorWHUFC) April 4, 2017
Cheeky
The “Pay as you go Arena ” has a nice ring to it #Vodafone
— alan saunders (@appyamma) April 4, 2017
Not everybody was impressed.
Vodafone arena? I think I have literally had enough of West Ham
— Harry Payne (@HarryP_TIU) April 4, 2017
