mccole
Player Valuation: £35m
But ultimately if we go into that new stadium and we are still in the Premier League.
Those kits and sponsors helped.
Those kits and sponsors helped.
Chrismac
Player Valuation: £15m
We cant have our cake and eat it, especially after the way the club has been ran commercially as past decade.
We got a big increase in revenue with Castore for the kit deal (whatever that also entails with the new stadium sponsoring) compared to Hummel, the kits actually look decent imo as far as matchday goes (not worrying about badge falling off as I'll not be buying one anyway).
Revenue up trumps a badge falling off a kit anyday of the week for a club with serious cashflow issues
We got a big increase in revenue with Castore for the kit deal (whatever that also entails with the new stadium sponsoring) compared to Hummel, the kits actually look decent imo as far as matchday goes (not worrying about badge falling off as I'll not be buying one anyway).
Revenue up trumps a badge falling off a kit anyday of the week for a club with serious cashflow issues
Toffe3m4n
Player Valuation: £80m
Still think the gear is nowhere near as bad as is being made out 
The 'Pro' version of the shirt may not be worth the c.£120 thats being charged for it but that doesn't mean there should be this clamour to go OTT over this perceived 'poor quality' of their product. They're a global brand that supply gear across tons of sports & prominent sportspeople, so they aren't exactly some amateur outfit..
The club have done well to get the deal & the gear out of Castore that they have. People wax lyrical over Umbro but I'm sorry - we absolutely shouldn't be entertaining crap financial deals regardless..
The 'Pro' version of the shirt may not be worth the c.£120 thats being charged for it but that doesn't mean there should be this clamour to go OTT over this perceived 'poor quality' of their product. They're a global brand that supply gear across tons of sports & prominent sportspeople, so they aren't exactly some amateur outfit..
The club have done well to get the deal & the gear out of Castore that they have. People wax lyrical over Umbro but I'm sorry - we absolutely shouldn't be entertaining crap financial deals regardless..
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davek
Player Valuation: £150m
I fail to believe another deal couldn't have been struck with manufacturers of decent kits. Surely it couldn't have been beyond the wit of our club to sign up to Umbro with a deal that maybe brought in a bit of a loss but allowed us to keep credibility?
I suspect they sold us down the river for about £10M.
Toffe3m4n
Player Valuation: £80m
Dave.. respectfully, I'm so so glad that you don't run the club
100%, we got paid a premium for going with the Kit shysters.
But our commercial department would have been silly to leave money on the table.
Sure the fans suffer, but dont we always.
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
The fans should burn that 'kin kit outside Goodison.
Toffe3m4n
Player Valuation: £80m
...just don't buy the gear then? which doesn't necessarily apply to you mate as I know you probably don't anyway, but I extend that to anyone.
They're a globally recognised brand, the kits are smart, and it's by far the biggest kit deal that the club has ever struck... I'm just a bit confused why this is such a bad thing in the eyes of some?
My daughter is buying my Grandson a home and an away, im begging her to purchase them from a well known Chinese friend of mine, but money has no value to my children, utter clowns.
Seems that Castore is going the way of 777 with Bayer Leverkusen ending their deal early due to delivery and supply issues.
As I sit here in my blue Umbro 'Chang' training shirt I long for a return to those halcyon days
As I sit here in my blue Umbro 'Chang' training shirt I long for a return to those halcyon days
Why would we change the most lucrative kit deal we've ever had??? Don't you want the club to survive financially?
davek
Player Valuation: £150m
Ha Ha.
It's the most lucrative deal we've had because it's the latest one. Look up the word 'inflation'...it's right next to the word 'idiot'.
Think you're missing a few pages from your dictionary.
Timbucktoo
Player Valuation: £6m
I agree about not buying the stuff.
But if you have bought them, burn them, so spend the money then burn the stuff, sort of kicking yourself twice doing that.