Just seen the pricing. What a ****ing joke, I'd rather go to games wrapped In Tesco value toilet roll than pay £50 for that ****e.
To be honest I quite like the white bits on the home shirt that nobody else seems to like; I always felt last seasons shirt needed more white. Really hate the gold detailing though, looks very tacky in my opinion, I wonder if the numbers will be in gold...
I wonder how much extra adidas get per shirt for the link up. Have they paid a lump sum for the rights or is the club paid per shirt?
You can buy a plain blue shirt in Primark for a fiver and it'd cost you upwards of £50 with the little Hollister bird stuck on it, this isn't really any different. Obviously it's **** and wrong, but it's not abnormal.
Every brand is a rip off, I'm just so used to it now. £50 for a football shirt doesn't surprise me at all.
there's a small matter of brands warranting a certain level of quality control though isn't there? Sainsburys Jaffa Cakes are a lot less pleasant than the real mccoy. it's not bullet proof, but it's part of the concept. fashion brands and celebrity logos offer you nothing but bling.
Anyone who's expecting value for money when buying a football shirt would be better off buying a t-shirt and some felt tip pens. I haven't checked any other teams kits but I'd be amazed if any cost less than £40, even if they only cost 50 pence and Filipino's child blood to make.
Just had a look at some others - Man Utd (Nike) are £55, Liverpool (Warrior) £45, Everton (Nike) £50. Checked a couple of Adidas, Fulham and Chelsea are both £50. Looks like it's an Adidas thing.
I heard someone talking about designer label jeans the other day (I forget which label but we're talking £200+). Anyway, he virtually admitted that they were no better than the cheap, supermarket alternative but he said that that wasn't the point. It was all about exclusivity. You buy a label because you want it to say something about yourself. Now it may say, "gullible tw*t", to others but it says "look at me, I've made it" to the owner. I guess its a similar thing with these shirts. Its not about owning an Adidas football shirt its about saying, "I'm a Saints fan". Having said that, I am a Saints fan but I won't be getting one. I don't wear clothes with bandages instead of sleeves!
I think there's more validity to the replica shirt. You're showing your alliegance to something other than consumerism. Designer brands are only a demonstration of wealth and a willingness to part with it. There are shades of grey. I can get a casio watch that will tell the time as well as an eterna, but casio may not make a watch which feels or looks as pleasing. And they won't take a photo of me with MoPo.
He's been modeling new goalkeeper kits for the last 8 or so years, anyone else sad not to see Kelvin modeling this one? Just me then.
Agreed with some of the posts above. Don't understand the gold, I know they've gone for the gold/silver idea but it just looks ****. White would've been more tolerable. Away is pretty decent.
