Barcelona's Rafinha must wear Adidas boots or face a €1m fine | OneFootball

Barcelona midfielder Rafinha has been ordered by a court to either start wearing Adidas boots again or pay an eye-watering €1m fine.

Rafinha claims he thought his sponsorship deal with Adidas ended at the end of the last season but the German sportswear giant say their agreement with the player contained an automatic five-year extension clause.

The 25-year-old has been playing in blacked out Mizuno boots this season, but a court has ordered that he must now honour his contract with Adidas.

“Although he is no legal expert, he knows how sponsor deals work,” the judge said.

The district court in Amsterdam has ruled that the playmaker must pay a fine of €10,000 for every day he reneges on his Adidas deal, up to a maximum of €1m.

It could have been worse, however, because Adidas had initially requested he be fined €100,000 for every day after 1 July, when he broke his contract.

Rafinha is actually out for the rest of the season anyway after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament during last month’s draw with Atlético Madrid.

In his defence, he claimed the company had offered him no support during his previous injury lay-offs, and sneakily buried the extension clause in his contract without his knowledge.