29 Jul 2015 13:57:12
Just a quick thought about our kit deal with Adidas, would love to hear what you all (eds included) think as I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination.
So what I'm thinking is the way football is going with the crazy amounts of money involved, could it be possible that in maybe 5 years time, halfway through our deal, we start to get overtaken by other top teams as we've committed ourselves to such a long period. We may the be stuck with what could potentially be a smaller deal than our competitors for a few years. We could see well over £100m a year being offered to the top teams soon and it's an area of the club which has been handled so well by Mr Woodward, I just wouldn't want to see us at a disadvantage.
29 Jul 2015 15:02:20
I think you're trying to see a negative where there isn't one Andy.
29 Jul 2015 15:28:40
Andy,
It is quite unlikely that any clubs will be as big a pull as Manchester United in the next few years so we have done an amazing deal and there is almost no chance we will be left behind I would imagine.
29 Jul 2015 16:07:02
They payed us a third of the value of our club to make our kits for us and you think it is possible that we could be at disadvantage? I am sure they only pay Real Madrid half of what they payed us.
29 Jul 2015 16:14:38
Lets face it there's only really Madrid as big globally. Barca perhaps.
29 Jul 2015 18:01:29
I don't know if this is true but apparently with nike when we sold merchandising (mugs, duvets etc) we didn't see a penny of the money whereas with the adidas deal we get 100 percent to the club. that's got to add up to a fair amount of cash i would have thought. I heard this from some guy at a corporate event but don't remember him being anything to do with utd (i had drunk a few too many vino's at that point of the evening). Can any ed's confirm if what i was told about the merchandising is true?
{Ed002's Note - No, he was teasing you.}
29 Jul 2015 18:09:43
Thats a shame but thanks for the reply ed
29 Jul 2015 20:00:02
Bookedredmole
I actually read in a major daily newspaper that the biggest stumbling block to renewing with Nike was United’s insistence that rights for non first-team and training kit merchandise would be returning to the club.
Unlike the 50/50 split with Nike (after a set figure had been reached), they wanted to make sure that " if a United fan in Hong Kong bought a United clock and bed covers, that money would be going into the club’s piggy bank."
30 Jul 2015 07:36:00
Red man that's interesting to know as its similar to what i was told (although i am sure the guy said we got nothing from nike as opposed to the 50/50 you read). Perhaps the person i spoke to had read something similar.