Next season's kits

[The Left Side]

Any word from the supporter's meeting with Purslow on next season's kit manufacturer? I hope it is not Castore, their range looks quite limited.

[chrisw1]

Any word from the supporter's meeting with Purslow on next season's kit manufacturer? I hope it is not Castore, their range looks quite limited.

I think you're going to be dissapointed.

[algy]

IIRC at VP

Bruce Springsteen
Duran Duran
Billy Graham
Rod Stewart supported by Belinda Carlisle
Take That with Robbie Wanker and supported by The Pet Shop Boys

This summer - Foo Fighters

You missed out the inaugural World Quizzing Championship in 2003. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Quizzing_Championship

English Subbuteo Championships (Midlands region) 1996.

[Flin5tone]

LUKE kits were absolutely fantastic along with the training and casual gear. I never buy official match shirts but actually did when they produced our jersey. The fans loved it so what do the club do get rid and bring in KAPPA now rumours of Castore. It's like they do it to wind us up , we all know a Luke/Adidas kit with 80s badge would sell in record numbers but they insist on poor quality brands and that horrendous current crest.

 A yellow lion on a Sky blue background? Looks blurred on Television and the lion looks like a depleated kitten.  Do the club EVER listen to the views of the supporters/customers ? Infuriating

[Hookeysmith]

LUKE kits were absolutely fantastic along with the training and casual gear. I never buy official match shirts but actually did when they produced our jersey. The fans loved it so what do the club do get rid and bring in KAPPA now rumours of Castore. It's like they do it to wind us up , we all know a Luke/Adidas kit with 80s badge would sell in record numbers but they insist on poor quality brands and that horrendous current crest.

 A yellow lion on a Sky blue background? Looks blurred on Television and the lion looks like a depleated kitten.  Do the club EVER listen to the views of the supporters/customers ? Infuriating

It is as always a commercial decision based on the greatest return for the club, same as with the sponsor that adorns it.

Luke was local and a great design but not at all known outside of the Midlands. I think i read somewhere that Nas's involvement at such a high level within Adidas means we will probably not have a kit of theirs whilst he is still around - not sure why but i'm sure someone like Red filth or Cite£ would get round that.

Then we have the colours and layout - not a great deal you can do with ours as if you asked 40,000 people they would give you 20,000 versions but most would remain traditional.

The third kit has become an abomination over recent years and we have done the 1982 versions to death

Its a difficult one to please us all

[Risso]

I don't understand why Sawiris having a small shareholding in Adidas would be a problem. He's not a majority shareholder, and we'd be small fry in terms of their global sales.

[Hookeysmith]

Im not sure either but i deffo seen it written somewhere (might even of been on here) as a potential reason why we seemingly swerve Adidas

[chrisw1]

Adidas would certainly be my favoured kit supplier.

[KevinGage]

It (a deal with Adidas) could be seen as a potential FFP dodge.  Or whatever the new strain is now.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Interesting - to nerds like me at least - when we wore Le Coq shirts in 1982, they were a subsidiary of Adidas at the time. And Nike owned Umbro for a while.

[Risso]

It (a deal with Adidas) could be seen as a potential FFP dodge.  Or whatever the new strain is now.

Highly unlikely, there'd be no reason for Adidas to do that. And even if they did, and it was, the Premier League just apply the Fair Value.

[Brazilian Villain]

I don't understand why Sawiris having a small shareholding in Adidas would be a problem. He's not a majority shareholder, and we'd be small fry in terms of their global sales.

I think I read he's the biggest shareholder in Adidas (6%) but also don't see why it would be an issue when you have Etihad and other Abu Dhabi entities sponsoring Citeh. Hopefully they're just waiting till we're in the CL before unleashing the Adidas kits.

[Flin5tone]

I understand Luke is not a known as Adidas but it's certainly growing. Has shops all over the UK and is distributed across Europe and further afield now.

Regardless of who makes it the 80s badge would be a big hit and massively improve sales.
I was hoping the new owners would bring the 80s crest back and our 'prepared' Moto would also return

[eamonn]

Disclose it as a Related Parties transaction but with Sawiri's small shareholding, I don't think there would be any dis-allowing of the Adidas revenue in the accounts, if it was fair value as Risso says, would there?

[Brazilian Villain]

Regardless of who makes it the 80s badge would be a big hit and massively improve sales.
I was hoping the new owners would bring the 80s crest back and our 'prepared' Moto would also return

It's been discussed before (and I believe Dave W clarified it for us) but I don't think it's possible due to copyright issues.