Serie A: Etihad Airways could become the shirt sponsor of AS Roma from 2015-16

The UAE airline Etihad Airways could become the shirt sponsor of AS Roma (Serie A TIM) from the 2015-16 season, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere dello Sport on 06/05/2015.

The club, which has not had a shirt sponsor since the start of the 2013-14 season, are reportedly hoping for a deal worth €14m a year. CAA Sports, a subsidiary of the American Creative Artists Agency, is responsible for finding a main shirt sponsor for AS Roma. Discussions are also underway with the national airline of the United Arab Emirates regarding the naming rights to the future stadium of Roma. CAA Sports was also chosen to market the naming rights of the enclosure in June 2014.

"We need the market to recognise Roma's growing value" (Mauro Baldissoni, AS Roma)

• "If Roma have no shirt sponsor at the moment it is because our value is growing and we need the market to recognise that, as well as our potential. We are confident because we find that the market is willing to recognise that value (of €12m per year)," said Mauro Baldissoni, the general manager of AS Roma, to Roma Radio on 06/09/2014.