About to lose our Sponsorship deal...

[VILLA MOLE]

back to Acorns please , looks best on the shirt 

[curiousorange]

I think people are getting caught between what the company represents (and by extension, what they're prepared to advertise) and the worth of it to the club. Say, for example, a huge company such as Aldi or Lidl offered us a £20 million deal for a couple of seasons. It's money to the club, but how many would be happy to walk around with what we would always see as a budget supermarket on their Villa shirt?

[VILLA MOLE]

I think people are getting caught between what the company represents (and by extension, what they're prepared to advertise) and the worth of it to the club. Say, for example, a huge company such as Aldi or Lidl offered us a £20 million deal for a couple of seasons. It's money to the club, but how many would be happy to walk around with what we would always see as a budget supermarket on their Villa shirt?

Aldi do great sausages I would be happy to have them

[curiousorange]

I think a lot of fans wouldn't share that view. I recall when the Stripeyfilth had that home safety thing on their shirt, with the massive red house. There were a lot of piss takers showed up on here.

[saunders_heroes]

Good to see the Mirror speak of us in a postive light.......

What's to be positive about though?

[Mortimer's Bear]

Another vote for Acorns from me.

[Clampy]

Good to see the Mirror speak of us in a postive light.......

What's to be positive about though?

In your world, nothing.

[curiousorange]

I know we've been crap for three seasons now, but in the context of British football we're still a big deal. We're in danger of thinking we've got to take what we can get, which isn't true. Possibly if we ended up like Forest or Preston (e.g. clubs that used to mean a lot but slid horribly down the divisions) I'd admit nostalgia isn't going to get you megabucks, but we're not at that stage yet and hopefully never will be.

[El Hurricane]

We don't exactly attract big sponsors anyway which is one of the reasons we were able to do the Acorns thing for a few seasons.

IF we get relegated all commercial income will fall. No point in reading too much into a deal that is about to expire anyway and a lazy piece of journalism.

Agree with this, who reads the Mirror anyway, got to be the worst paper going and the transfer lies they make up are always swallowed up, still don't know why people fall for it !!!!

[Billy Walker]

I know we've been crap for three seasons now, but in the context of British football we're still a big deal. We're in danger of thinking we've got to take what we can get, which isn't true. Possibly if we ended up like Forest or Preston (e.g. clubs that used to mean a lot but slid horribly down the divisions) I'd admit nostalgia isn't going to get you megabucks, but we're not at that stage yet and hopefully never will be.

At the very least (regardless of where we are in the league at the moment) we should be aiming for what the likes of Spurs get.  I appreciate Spurs are currently a top four chasing team but, even so, we've won more than them and have a far greater history.  One of the things I hoped Randy Lerner would get right when he took over Villa was the branding of the club (the McGregor/League creators angle  in particular). Marketed the right way, Villa being the home of every league football competition in the world must have a significant value?

[PeterWithesShin]

If someone from the Mirror told me it was snowing I wouldn't believe them even if I was stood in a blizzard.

[dave.woodhall]

I know we've been crap for three seasons now, but in the context of British football we're still a big deal. We're in danger of thinking we've got to take what we can get, which isn't true. Possibly if we ended up like Forest or Preston (e.g. clubs that used to mean a lot but slid horribly down the divisions) I'd admit nostalgia isn't going to get you megabucks, but we're not at that stage yet and hopefully never will be.

At the very least (regardless of where we are in the league at the moment) we should be aiming for what the likes of Spurs get.  I appreciate Spurs are currently a top four chasing team but, even so, we've won more than them and have a far greater history.  One of the things I hoped Randy Lerner would get right when he took over Villa was the branding of the club (the McGregor/League creators angle  in particular). Marketed the right way, Villa being the home of every league football competition in the world must have a significant value?

None whatsoever. This is modern football - it doesn't give a toss about what happened last week never mind the century before last.

[spaf]

Couldn't careless. F in Genting a shit gambling house they can piss right out of Villa Park.

Agree - any sponsor that can't be on a kids shirt has no place in football.

This

[brian green]

Aldi was the only place in Swindon which served the Villa fans a drink.   Besides they are wiping the floor with the so called up market supermarket chains, especially Morrisons.

[paulcomben]

By the time Randy runs out of money and patience, we may be pleased to get Aston Manor lager as sponsor.