I doubt very much that there'll be a consultation about the kits.
As for the OP, so much for your impeccable source. It was pretty obvious that, from the fact it had Gav's personal badge on it, the whole thing was one of his projects.
Which ftr I thought looked quite good.
I used to be very bothered that we MUST have white shorts for the home kit, but now I'm pretty ambivalent that we sometimes get blue. As far as I can tell our current "identity" is with the colour alone. Since we're the only big (for want of a better word) British club to wear that colour then the shorts and socks can vary, whilst all those clubs who wear red need to have a core design which identifies them.
The rags have white shorts/black socks (although they do wear white socks in Europe, which btw was news to a rag friend/season ticket holder of many years, who hadn't noticed that they did that!?), Arsenal have white sleeves/shorts, dippers are all red etc. Barca change design quite a bit, look at this season's with hoops and red shorts, but it's obvious from just the colours that it's still them. I think there are very few who think that they're watching Basle or Palace. Same with us. Along with the new badge it'll be blindingly obvious that the team/kit you're looking at is Manchester City. You could even say that on the European stage then having blue shorts differentiates us from Napoli/Lazio who, afaik haven't ever had blue shorts.
Would I prefer that we always had white shorts/trim? Yes.
Would I prefer that the socks were blue with maroon & white tops? Yes. But that's no doubt influenced by my age and I appreciate that others have their own preferences, again depending mainly on their age.
Am I upset when we don't get that? Not any more. It'd just be an exercise in futility, these days.
