Aston Villa Kit 26/27

[Rotterdam]

I can say that removing sponsers or names/numbers is not easy and can easily ruin the shirt.
Our eldest bought the black Castore goalie shirt from a few years ago and thought it was the away kit (he went to the shop with his Grandad). He had Pau 14 on the back and was in bits when I told him. I took it to work and the main kit man took a good hour or so to remove it. You could faintly see the outline of the name and number. He used all sorts of adhesive removers and ended rubbing the ;shirt with an old black sock.

[algy]

Bring back Cows!

I didn't realise it at the time, but they were halcyon times.

[Rotterdam]

I understand why they've done it with the new sponsor, but I wish they hadn't.

[PeterWithe]

I'd guess then that despite our Euro win there wasn't much on the table if this outfit, at less than Betano, were the best deal.

[Dogtanian]

There's these chaps;

https://www.unbelievablesaves.com/

If I look the look of the away and third, then I will want to buy and remove it. So I will keep a look out.

I did want buy the pro home shirt too. Might have a look to see if they have any without the logo on this weekend.

[Dogtanian]

I'd guess then that despite our Euro win there wasn't much on the table if this outfit, at less than Betano, were the best deal.

They're saying it's more than Betano.

[paul_e]

I understand why they've done it with the new sponsor, but I wish they hadn't.

I don't, if it's less than £26m then we could literally have earned more sponsoring ourselves.

[Villan82]

Ah, it sure was nice of them to throw in a few hundred bots for our social pages free of charge.


What a depressing 24 hours this has been

[Percy McCarthy]

I'd guess then that despite our Euro win there wasn't much on the table if this outfit, at less than Betano, were the best deal.

I don’t think it’s less than Betano.

[PeterWithe]

All the stuff I've read suggests that Betting companies pay the best money, and our deal was worth £20m, and that this one 'could be' worth £20m if certain targets are hit. So almost certainly less. To be honest football at all levels has prostituted itself to the highest bidders for years, its difficult to stir the rage against anything any more.

[Percy McCarthy]

I understand why they've done it with the new sponsor, but I wish they hadn't.

I don't, if it's less than £26m then we could literally have earned more sponsoring ourselves.

I think we will end up sponsoring ourselves somehow, but probably didn’t want to do that with the most valuable sponsorship. If they can get Betano on the sleeve as suggested, with Sports Illustrated on the Watehouse, that leaves training gear, stadium and Bodymoor where the owners could perhaps pump in more of their own (or their families’) money.

[Percy McCarthy]

All the stuff I've read suggests that Betting companies pay the best money, and our deal was worth £20m, and that this one 'could be' worth £20m if certain targets are hit. So almost certainly less. To be honest football at all levels has prostituted itself to the highest bidders for years, its difficult to stir the rage against anything any more.

They’re calling it the most lucrative.

[kippaxvilla2]

Personally I couldn’t care less if we were running around the pitch with sports quarter.com on our shirts.  It’s another £20m in the door we badly need.  Morals and football have never been close bedfellows.  Least of all nowadays.

[boozey182]

I'd guess then that despite our Euro win there wasn't much on the table if this outfit, at less than Betano, were the best deal.

I guess this is the case, but I don't really understand what our commercial team are there to do. Is it just a case of sifting through 10 emails of options and picking the one with the biggest number?

With, admittedly, very little experience in this field, could we have been better off not paying the commercial department a wage, and used that saving to to go for a slightly less reprehensible sponsor? Or, hired a better commercial team that costs more, but got a much better sponsor to pay us more money?

It just feels like we have ended up with the worst case scenario.

[Dogtanian]

I'm not sure about Betano doing sleeve sponsorship after they did the dirty deed with Spuds. That will be costing them an arm and a leg.

Stadium and training ground sponsorship, I think, is the most difficult to get.

The New North is surely an opportunity for something of the sort for next season, though. Maybe Numan could do something tasteful around swelling and doubling in size, or something. Perfect audience for them.