Aston Villa players complain Castore shirts negatively impact performance

[TelfordVilla]

I'm quite looking forward to seeing ailesha whatsherface  in a clingy wet shirt. 😜

[Sexual Ealing]

Yes, good for you. Are you aware that pornography exists?

[Rory]

Ugh

[PaulTheVillan]

I'm quite looking forward to seeing ailesha whatsherface  in a clingy wet shirt. 😜

I can model my small moobs for you?

[AV84]

Wasn't having a pop or anything, but I've seen it said more than once, and not just here, that they were wearing training tops rather than matchday tops.

I only know it's a "match day" top because someone posted about the women having a nicer jersey than the men the day they wore it in Spain. I knew it wasn't the same training top the men were wearing so I looked at the shop to see if they had it and that's where I saw it listed as "match day". The men have it too.

I assume someone at the club/castore has already had the idea to play in one of the other tops, assuming they're not an issue. If the women could play in Spain in them without problem it might be the best option.

[pablo_picasso]

Wasn't having a pop or anything, but I've seen it said more than once, and not just here, that they were wearing training tops rather than matchday tops.

Its cool, I didn't think you were mate.

It was my bad, as I had seen them correctly labelled elsewhere & had a brain fart... 👍

[Si]

Puma have only got one club in the PL and that's MC.

I'm sure they'd be open to another.

I don't think Puma would look good on the adidas shareholder's football shirt.

That said, are there any Redbull Racing or McLaren fans that can comment on their F1 gear? Didn't Redbull go from Puma to Castore?

I have the castore Mclaren polo shirt. The quality is superb, and the material is lovely. Really can't fault it, yet when I picked up this year's Villa polo, the material is nothing like the Mclaren one.

[Small Rodent]

Bukta

[exigo]

New job role going at unnamed sports kit manufacturer.

Wonder who?

[AV84]

There's one of those shorts on YouTube of the players reacting to their Fifa cards as they arrive for training and I'm sure it's unrelated but Diaby and Torres are both wearing Adidas, and McGinn is head to toe in Nike. Wonder if they're making their preferences known.

[85kota]

I'm quite looking forward to seeing ailesha whatsherface  in a clingy wet shirt. 😜

#maaate

[Villafirst]

I'd guess we've missed the boat with Adidas.  I can't see them taking on two clubs the size of Newcastle and us in one season

I suspect they'd be able to manage it if necessary.

Adidas is massive, a worldwide giant in sportswear. I'm sure they could handle 2 extra clubs! In fact, they'd relish the extra business and revenue.

[Three Spires Villa]

I'm quite looking forward to seeing ailesha whatsherface  in a clingy wet shirt. 😜

Really? its not 1977 anymore

[PeterWithesShin]

And of course on stuff i've seen on social media about the women's team and the shirts there's plenty of "hur hur wet and clingy, i'll watch the games now" type comments, including from our own fans.

As I said. Social media is full of that stuff.

[AV84]

https://sportsjournal.io/premier-league-merchandise-revenue-data/

Here's an article from January which backs up what I said earlier, most clubs get about 7.5% of revenue from kit sales, the rest going to the manufacturer. (Deals differ from club to club, Liverpool apparently get 20%, or if there's a massive lump sum and long term, like ManU, they might not get a cut at all)

According to the table in the article, for the year 2022, Aston Villa sold 245,000 shirts. Arsenal, for comparison sold 975,000. ManU and Liverpool sold around 2.5 million each.

So, obviously any of the bigger name brands could outbid the smaller ones for a deal with us, if they wanted to, but they're not going to if they're not going to get a good return on their money. A smaller brand will be more likely to take that risk in the hope that they end up with more deals. Castore probably went higher than they should on their offers and that's how they've ended up with several clubs in such a short time, and how they've seemingly over reached, and will now pay the price.