Barcelona members approve Qatar deal

Members gathered at the Spanish and European champions' general assembly voted 697 in favour of the record five-year deal, the biggest for any football club, with 76 against and 36 blank votes, the club said on their website.

Barca President Sandro Rosell and his board of directors had been lobbying members to vote in favour of the agreement amid criticism the club was compromising its ideals by taking money from an unsavoury regime.

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