Would you accept Villa Park being sponsored ?

[TimTheVillain]

I'd happily do it for £5m a season.

But I think even that is far more than we would ever realistically see.

I see your point, it's a bit 'catch 22' in that, the more successful the club is, the higher the price.

[TonyD]

I'd happily do it for £5m a season.

But I think even that is far more than we would ever realistically see.

I see your point, it's a bit 'catch 22' in that, the more successful the club is, the higher the price.

£5m  - about Beye's and SI wages.  Not worth it in a million years.

[dave.woodhall]

So we sell our soul and take at best say £10m to have our home renamed.
In exchange we end up with an average player who gets even richer, as does his agent - and if he's any good (which he probably won't be) he pisses off after a couple of years and we're left the bleeding Asda Arena!

NO DEAL, NO WAY.

Imagine how you'd have felt last Saturday if £30m stadium naming cash had been spent on Charles N'Zogbia and Darren Bent. An insult to the great name of and tradition of Villa Park!

You can say that about every penny the club earns. I fail to see how ground sponsorship is selling your soul any more than kit sponsorship or Sky deals.

[DeKuip]

So we sell our soul and take at best say £10m to have our home renamed.
In exchange we end up with an average player who gets even richer, as does his agent - and if he's any good (which he probably won't be) he pisses off after a couple of years and we're left the bleeding Asda Arena!

NO DEAL, NO WAY.

Imagine how you'd have felt last Saturday if £30m stadium naming cash had been spent on Charles N'Zogbia and Darren Bent. An insult to the great name of and tradition of Villa Park!

You can say that about every penny the club earns. I fail to see how ground sponsorship is selling your soul any more than kit sponsorship or Sky deals.

The line has to be drawn somewhere, otherwise why not go the whole way and sell the name of the club as well.

I'd rather watch Aston Villa play at Villa Park in the lower leagues than Red Bull Villa at Asda Arena in the Premier League. And in my grandmother was still alive I wouldn't sell her either, even if it meant having a Ferrari on the drive.

[Ad@m]

So we sell our soul and take at best say £10m to have our home renamed.
In exchange we end up with an average player who gets even richer, as does his agent - and if he's any good (which he probably won't be) he pisses off after a couple of years and we're left the bleeding Asda Arena!

NO DEAL, NO WAY.

Imagine how you'd have felt last Saturday if £30m stadium naming cash had been spent on Charles N'Zogbia and Darren Bent. An insult to the great name of and tradition of Villa Park!

You can say that about every penny the club earns. I fail to see how ground sponsorship is selling your soul any more than kit sponsorship or Sky deals.

The line has to be drawn somewhere, otherwise why not go the whole way and sell the name of the club as well.

I'd rather watch Aston Villa play at Villa Park in the lower leagues than Red Bull Villa at Asda Arena in the Premier League. And in my grandmother was still alive I wouldn't sell her either, even if it meant having a Ferrari on the drive.

Absolutely.

[Louzie0]

I'm having trouble believing that the editor of the latest H&V thinks that adopting commercial shirt sponsors is the same kind of deal as renaming the ground. 

[dave.woodhall]

I'm having trouble believing that the editor of the latest H&V thinks that adopting commercial shirt sponsors is the same kind of deal as renaming the ground. 

It's the same concept. You either reject something entirely or you make sure you're as good at it as you possible can be. 

[cdbearsfan]

Does anyone know how much Newcastle got for selling their stadium naming rights? I've never heard a person since not just call it "St James' Park".

[Louzie0]

I'm having trouble believing that the editor of the latest H&V thinks that adopting commercial shirt sponsors is the same kind of deal as renaming the ground. 

It's the same concept. You either reject something entirely or you make sure you're as good at it as you possible can be.

I think I said what I was worried about in an earlier post.  i.e., Jaguar or Lidl, just for instance.
   
I think I'm concerned about what the concept of success might be.  Like, I love Acorns, I hated the 33 betting thing.  'You make sure you're as good at it as you possibly can be.'  I really really don't want Villa park to be renamed as a cheap betting website, like our shirts were.  I'm sorry Dave but this particular management team has not given me cause to hope for the best - just the most expedient. I'd like them to prove me wrong.

[dave.woodhall]

Again, I fail to see how the sponsor's industry is of any importance. We're happy to have shirts that may or may not be made by third world sweatshops; in fact the original Nike deal was a cause for rejoicing. What's the difference?

[Louzie0]

Actually put like that no difference.  I'd just like to think we're better, that's all.

[Greg N'Ash]

Probably would. its like the Doug ellis stand- no-one calls it that  and lets face it thats about as blatent an attempt as self advertisement as you can get, so if you can live with that insult anything is possible. And we didn't get paid for it. Frankly the way Lerner's been flogging off the players for money, i'm surprised Cash Converters haven't been in contact already.

[KRS]

The minimum benefits of what we'd get and what we'd spend it on simply wouldnt be worth it. I'd be against a renaming but a sponsorship deal such as "Villa Park sponsored by Jaguar" would be acceptable as long as there was decent money on the table.

[Louzie0]

So if Randy wanted to call it the Acorns Villa stadium.... I'd be chuffed.

[villadelph]

No, never ever. Nope, not a chance.