Warrior Kit Deal - Not bullshit

[Einch]

£50M per season? Not bad when you consider when we signed it and that we’re into the last year.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Sign with Nike, sponsor by Coke. Give me the kit I’ve always wanted.

[Trumo]

£50M per season? Not bad when you consider when we signed it and that we’re into the last year.

 

The original Warrior deal started in 2012/13 (Rodgers' first year as manager), and was to run until 2018. It wasn't £50m per year, it was £25m per year. Ian Ayre made a comment about the club possibly making an extra £25m per year through control of the merchandising (which is something that both Adidas and Nike would want to control themselves if they were ever to do a deal with us), hence the chance of earning £50m per year. That claim has never been proven because the club isn't obliged to disclose that level of detail in its accounts, being a private limited company. If they were listed (or part-listed) on the stock exchange like the Mancs, their accounts would include this breakdown.

 

When NB took the deal over in 2015, the basic went up to around £30m per year and it was announced as a multi-year deal. It hasn't been confirmed exactly when it expires. This week some journalist claimed it was up in 2019, and someone else has apparently debunked that since. Either way, what the club need to consider is whether a very high basic but no control over merchandising represents a better deal than a lower basic which includes merchandising control. Control over merchandising is only worthwhile if there is a market for the stuff, it can be widely distributed and it remains lucrative.

[an tha]

Our stock is currently as high as it has been in years...we have just been in the biggest game in the world, we are in the comp again..

 

Now would be a good time to be renegotiating our deals where possible/seeing what is out there for a proposition like us.

[lifetime fan]

Sign with Nike, sponsor by Coke. Give me the kit I’ve always wanted.

 

Diet Coke on a silver away kit.

[Tony Moanero]

Nike kits have been turd for ages.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Diet Coke on a silver away kit.

Col knows.

[lifetime fan]

Col knows.

You had the same childhood dream kits as me!

[RedKnight]

We'll stay with New Balance. They're a Massachusetts-based company and have sponsorship with the Red Sox. They only way we change manufacturer is if New Balance want to get out of the footy kit game.

[Trumo]

Nike kits have been turd for ages.

 

The time to swtich to Nike was 1996, when we went with Reebok instead. They did different designs for every team for about 5 or 6 years, and it was around the 2002 World Cup when they start basing every kit on templates.

[Tony Moanero]

The time to swtich to Nike was 1996, when we went with Reebok instead. They did different designs for every team for about 5 or 6 years, and it was around the 2002 World Cup when they start basing every kit on templates.

I don’t have a problem with templates, kit manufacturers have been using them forever and a day. A boss kit is not necessarily a unique one, in my opinion.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

We should sign up with Kitbag.

[Einch]

Shitbag

[Anubis]

Silver away kits are shite. White shirts with red trim and red or black shorts are where it's at.

 

And I like the purple kit, so sue me.

[VladimirIlyich]

Both look almost identical and neither are worth what they charge for it. A red shirt with a badge and a number is all it needs.

[Numero Veinticinco]

Both look almost identical and neither are worth what they charge for it. A red shirt with a badge and a number is all it needs.

 

It's all it needs if you want to play in the conference. 

[Scrump]

Just watched Pride in the Shirt on LFC TV. It's a good watch. Away kit was white with black shorts for about 90 years. For me the best one will always be the yellow kit with the red pinstripes from the early 80s. Red, white, yellow. That should be it. Can't be doing with the grey, green and purple or the jazzy patterns. (Fully aware what an old get that makes me sound!) 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

This 1978 - with black shorts and white socks.

[Aventus]

If we win the league then that purple kit is going to become iconic, and we'll have plenty more purple ones to look forward to in the future when they decide to go retro, back to the glory days of the late 2010's - early 2020's

[Alan Sex]

Looking forward to the end of this contract, when the club will announce a new 27 year contract with Macron. 

[an tha]

13 hours ago, Alan Sex said:

Looking forward to the end of this contract, when the club will announce a new 27 year contract with Macron. 

No way it is 34 years and with Joma

[Captain Turdseye]

If it’s not Lonsdale then I’m done with this club. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

If it’s with Lonsdale, I’m done with the club. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

15 hours ago, Alan Sex said:

Looking forward to the end of this contract, when the club will announce a new 27 year contract with Macron. 

Gnasher won't like that.

[The Woolster]

2 hours ago, Captain Turdseye said:

If it’s not Lonsdale then I’m done with this club. 

 

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