They would definitely want a name change like, although they couldn't change the name of the German team to something with Red Bull in, they just put RB in front of it instead. I'm not comfortable at all with the idea of a new name, or a new badge with their logo on it, to be honest, I imagine a lot would feel similarly. The other things sound great, but I'm not sure it would be worth sacrificing the identity of the club for it This is all awfully hypothetical in any case, I don't think Ellis is interested in selling currently, and Red Bull probably aren't interested anyway.
Like I say, the FA have shown that they will not authorize name changes, so it would be shirts sponsorship and stadium naming rights. They would in likelihood look to change the badge, and that I wouldn't be comfortable with, maybe change the lions for Bulls, ha. I'd love Ellis to stay and put the money up, we don't need worry about FFP until we have a team likely to compete in Europe anyway.
I think if they took over a small team, with minimal support they could change the name to Red Bull, which they might decide to do instead of going for a prem team in England.
I don't think you can do that realistically, given the size of our cities, big cities have big clubs. Liepzig, for example, is a huge city of over half a million, that had no major club. They could do worse than try Bristol mind.
Seems ripe for a picking Coventry like, but Bristol for me, baffles me how they can't get a decent side in that city, there must be potential there.
The Red Bull stadium of light sounds alright to me. Wouldn't hate red bull on the strip either. What I would oppose is name change, badge and club colours
If we won the league as Sunderland red bulls I'd be over the ****ing moon. It's a bit more glamorous that scraping by as Sunderland AFC. AFC that doesn't even make a word
if all they do is change the stadium name (which i think is **** anyway) and a badge i not overawed by (. much prefer the awld ship) and we get real investment and management to succeed what's not to like about that?
So would I, they can change whatever they want we will still be Sunderland, the team is all about the supporters and the city, they can change anything but it will never change us. Its progress at the end of the day, plenty moaned when we left Roker Park but I think we can all agree the SOL was the right thing to do and its made massive improvements to the club.
Red Bull. the founders of that company are canny clever, making billions from selling ****e. Originating from Thailand, then adopted by an Austrian, the two fellas went onto make a fortune. Sunderland Red Bull stadium, sounds ok to me.
This is what it comes down to at the end of the day, we'd all love to see a successful club, in Sunderland. I'd rather follow Sunderland Red Bull round Europe than Sunderland AFC round the championship, and 'Red Bull Arena', which all Red Bull stadiums are called is not as ****ing stupid as Stadium of Light.
aye. Red Bull Arena is fine by me. At least we're under no threat of losing the red part of our stripes.
You know mate not a massive leap to hoy bulls on the badge, just move the lions, which have no significance anyway. Bull, lion, whatever, ha.
The badge is ****e anyhow, looks like it's been cobbled together on a pc by a bunch of college students on day release. As for the name of the ground, Stadium Of Light was a typical Murray/Fickling blunder.
