Should we be looking at new kit deal?- new update pg34 Chelsea NIKE DEAL

[Manchester33]

Does anyone else share a hatred of Nike with me? On the lower end of the scale their templated designs are poor and short of any imagination, they lack any awareness of our history and traditions and do not represent us well in our kits. The quality of the shirts are poor etc. Over on the larger scale, I really worry about the lack of ethics in the business. They basically employ 3rd world citizens on slave labour wages. There's no health and safety, child protection, environmental care etc which surely has poor connotations to the club?

It always amuses me when other fans use slurs such as how the Sheik uses slave labour in his country, whilst wearing Nike trainers and jackets themselves they contribute to a lot of it.

Surely someone like Mansour who has the money to start businesses up could create an ethical brand that competes with Nike/Addidas in quality?

 

[M18CTID]

I'm not as miffed as some others about this. As things stand, £12 million a year when compared to what plenty of other clubs now get is very low but it's worth pointing out that these kit deals have risen exponentially over a short space of time (Liverpool's £25 million a year deal looked huge not that long ago but that's dwarfed by other kit deals these days) and while it looks poor now, it didn't look too bad at all a few years back. People also forget that it's already been renegotiated once which doubled our money. Our current Nike deal was originally struck through Umbro in 2009 and was for £6 million a year. It was renegotiated with Nike 3 years later in 2012 at which point it was doubled to £12 million a year. At that time, United were still with Nike and getting £20 million-plus a year so ours compared quite well. Not only that, we still had Umbro kit in the 2012-13 season so it wasn't even until 2013-14 that we started playing in Nike kit. We're only 3 years on from that and yes, in light of lots of other deals that have been struck in the meantime we're well behind but I'm sure our next deal - be it with Nike or someone else - will be far greater in value.

 

[Otamendi's Beard]

Nike kits are shite. End of.

 

[B\connellblue]

At least the ones on Aliexpress are only $16 . Hard to tell the difference,probably came from the same sweat shop anyway.

 

[bluemc]

I'm not as miffed as some others about this. As things stand, £12 million a year when compared to what plenty of other clubs now get is very low but it's worth pointing out that these kit deals have risen exponentially over a short space of time (Liverpool's £25 million a year deal looked huge not that long ago but that's dwarfed by other kit deals these days) and while it looks poor now, it didn't look too bad at all a few years back. People also forget that it's already been renegotiated once which doubled our money. Our current Nike deal was originally struck through Umbro in 2009 and was for £6 million a year. It was renegotiated with Nike 3 years later in 2012 at which point it was doubled to £12 million a year. At that time, United were still with Nike and getting £20 million-plus a year so ours compared quite well. Not only that, we still had Umbro kit in the 2012-13 season so it wasn't even until 2013-14 that we started playing in Nike kit. We're only 3 years on from that and yes, in light of lots of other deals that have been struck in the meantime we're well behind but I'm sure our next deal - be it with Nike or someone else - will be far greater in value.

Tottenham signing with Nike for 2017/18 onwards @ rumored £30m a year. Our £12m a year looks poorer and poorer as every other deal is announced, especially as Nike are splashing the cash and have also allegedly approached Real Madrid too, despite Real being tied into a long-term deal as it stands.

 

[bluekeith]

Why is everybody grumbling about what we think we get there are all sorts of add ons and subtractions in every deal , we are being run better than any time in our history the people in charge of the deals are the ones to trust, stay strong have faith enjoy

 

[Corky]

You can't expect the same deal if you don't shift the units.

 

[mat]

Nike kits are shite. End of.

This.

Also where's the faux outrage from football journalists to the chavs deal. Or or they waiting for us to announce the first billion pound kit deal?

 

[_OVO_]

To all the ones slagging off Nike, who would you rather have? Adidas? or Puma? because I can't see any other kit maker matching the market reach of those three.
And it's not like Adidas and Puma are better when it comes to the design/quality of Kits. Puma shirts always look like they are made out of Latex, and are so tight that they make Sanchez look like he has knockers on him.
And these are some of the kits Adidas have made this year :

And the worst of all :

 

[Blue Mist]

Apple should go into the clothes business.

Or Samsung ? Then we really would play with fire in our bellys