lets all have a disco wrote:If Etihad started throwing 80 million a season at us UEFA and the rest of the other teams cough cough Gill would be all over us RE. FFP. We need to bide our time with this and let Etihad because let's face it we aint getting sponsored by anyone else while we are owned by Mansour drip feed the deal to bring it in line with the others Nike though are a different animal all together they are playing us like cunts.
Patience.
Justified logic wrote:Current European shirt manufacturer deals (we're 11th): http://www.totalsportek.com/football/ex ... contracts/
Ths latter is more worrying as it is external, 1/5th of the amount United get per year, and runs until 2019.
Justified logic wrote:Current European shirt manufacturer deals (we're 11th): http://www.totalsportek.com/football/ex ... contracts/
Ths latter is more worrying as it is external, 1/5th of the amount United get per year, and runs until 2019.
BlueinBosnia wrote: I'd take an educated guess that the disparity between the total sum us and the Rags receive from shirt manufacture and sales (and other associated odds and ends related to our respective Nike and Adidas contracts) isn't so great as those figures would suggest.
Abu Dhabi wrote:BlueinBosnia wrote: I'd take an educated guess that the disparity between the total sum us and the Rags receive from shirt manufacture and sales (and other associated odds and ends related to our respective Nike and Adidas contracts) isn't so great as those figures would suggest.
Believe me, it is. They sell at least 4 times more shirts than us, and that reflects on the two deals we have.
I am saying this as an expert who studied this particular issue, as a partner in the only UAE sportwear manufacturing company.
I am not saying there isnt room for improvement in City's deal, we probably need to sell 400,000 shirts a year to make a 25M deal feasible for all partners.
In fact, I would offer 25M to City. However, I can only beat Nike/Addidas in design, match them in quality, but never going to beat them in distribution.
Abu Dhabi wrote:I think I read somewhere that Chelsea sold as many shirts as United last year
blues2win wrote:Sadly agree about rag shirt sales but what about Arsenal or Chelsea which is what I mentioned at the top of the thread?
JamieMCFC wrote:blues2win wrote:Sadly agree about rag shirt sales but what about Arsenal or Chelsea which is what I mentioned at the top of the thread?
You can lay part of the blame on the U.S. for Arsenal shirt sales. They have the most supporters in the U.S. by a large margin.
nottsblue wrote:Why don't we follow the South American route and have sponsors on the back of the shirt as well? Whenever I've seen Argentinian or Brazilian domestic football their shirts are plastered with different sponsors. Won't get as much as front of the shirt sponsors but it would be a few quid I'm sure
Moonchesteri wrote:nottsblue wrote:Why don't we follow the South American route and have sponsors on the back of the shirt as well? Whenever I've seen Argentinian or Brazilian domestic football their shirts are plastered with different sponsors. Won't get as much as front of the shirt sponsors but it would be a few quid I'm sure
Please tell me you're joking. The additional sponsors ruin the shirts imo, 1000% not worth it
Im_Spartacus wrote:Abu Dhabi wrote:I think I read somewhere that Chelsea sold as many shirts as United last year
I think United beat their own record last year and knocked out about 1.6 or 1.7m
Surely the revenue from 1.7m shirts at a full retail price of say 50 quid, after splitting between retailer, manufacturer and club can't possibly make a shirt deal of 60m (gbp) a year financially viable from sales alone? Can it?
The number of shirts sold isn't going up anywhere near as quick as the size of the deals, which suggests that the manufacturers must be doing the deals at the biggest clubs purely for brand awareness & penetration into various international markets rather than profit?
Moonchesteri wrote:nottsblue wrote:Why don't we follow the South American route and have sponsors on the back of the shirt as well? Whenever I've seen Argentinian or Brazilian domestic football their shirts are plastered with different sponsors. Won't get as much as front of the shirt sponsors but it would be a few quid I'm sure
Please tell me you're joking. The additional sponsors ruin the shirts imo, 1000% not worth it
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