Man Utd new kit

ayrshireclaret83 · Post by **ayrshireclaret83** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 6:58 pm

Full strip

Shirt £109.95
Shorts £42.95
Socks £29.95

Total £182.85

Unbelievable

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:02 pm

Southerners are generally wealthier though so it's all relative.

Shore claret · Post by **Shore claret** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:02 pm

Your thinking £110 for a shirt wow, but then £30 for a pair of football socks, Jesus Christ.

Vino blanco · Post by **Vino blanco** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:02 pm

Should sell like hot cakes in London.

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:03 pm

Believable from them.
Fans get every penny drained from them.

They sell millions upon millions of shirts world wide, they're doing what all clubs do by trying to maximise profit. Shirts are just another avenue.

Haven't ours gone up this year by over 10%?

gandhisflipflop · Post by **gandhisflipflop** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:03 pm

Everything is so much more expensive these days and the wages have hardly moved. I dont know how it can be justified.

GodIsADeeJay81 · Post by **GodIsADeeJay81** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:08 pm

Those numbers are wrong.

£109 for a full kit more like.

£65 for a shirt etc.

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:12 pm

For a bit of “perspective” those prices are for the “authentic” kit

A “normal” shirt is still £65

bfcjg · Post by **bfcjg** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:12 pm

Answer is not to buy it. I don't like this years shirt on looks so will buy something else.

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:13 pm

gandhisflipflop wrote:Everything is so much more expensive these days and the wages have hardly moved. I dont know how it can be justified.

It's only justified by the fact that football fans are daft enough to pay it.
Honestly, who needs a replica kit? I can understand buying and wearing a shirt, but socks and shorts???

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:13 pm

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote:Those numbers are wrong.

£109 for a full kit more like.

£65 for a shirt etc.

No the numbers aren’t wrong

Jeffbfc · Post by **Jeffbfc** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:16 pm

ayrshireclaret83 wrote:Full strip

Shirt £109.95
Shorts £42.95
Socks £29.95

Total £182.85

Unbelievable

Aye your right you are, as the long sleeved shirt is £74.95, still a rip off but not your prices.
Still a shocking £126.85 for the lot.

TVC15 · Post by **TVC15** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:16 pm

wilks_bfc wrote:No the numbers aren’t wrong

https://www.adidas.co.uk/manchester_uni ... &gclsrc=ds" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

They are kind of wrong. The "fans" home shirt is £65....still ridiculously expensive but then again £45 for our shirt is not exactly a bargain is it ?!!!

GodIsADeeJay81 · Post by **GodIsADeeJay81** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:20 pm

wilks_bfc wrote:No the numbers aren’t wrong

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Well it's either you or UTD that are wrong.

Tall Paul · Post by **Tall Paul** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:23 pm

I won't buy one then.

GodIsADeeJay81 · Post by **GodIsADeeJay81** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:24 pm

Just seen that Adidas link.

That's just a massive con really isn't it?

Buy an identical one to what the players wear or a cheap crappier version?

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:25 pm

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote:

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Well it's either you or UTD that are wrong.

On the Adidas site

Like I said there are 2 kits.
An authentic version that the players wear and a normal one

GodIsADeeJay81 · Post by **GodIsADeeJay81** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:29 pm

See my other comment about it being a con

wilks_bfc · Post by **wilks_bfc** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:30 pm

I have. We posted at same time

cutsy123 · Post by **cutsy123** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 7:41 pm

People i kno get the knock offs. Cant tell the difference at 15-20 quid. Its not like u go out on the lash in one or actually wear a shirt to the game.

South West Claret. · Post by **South West Claret.** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 8:06 pm

gandhisflipflop wrote:Everything is so much more expensive these days and the wages have hardly moved. I dont know how it can be justified.

Before someone mentions market forces, it can't possibly be justified IMHO ghff.

gandhisflipflop · Post by **gandhisflipflop** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 8:30 pm

boatshed bill wrote:It's only justified by the fact that football fans are daft enough to pay it.
Honestly, who needs a replica kit? I can understand buying and wearing a shirt, but socks and shorts???

The United kit is just one example. I was generalising on a wider scale really. Im fine with prices going up, but when wages are more or less the same as they have been for 15 to 20 years it really annoys me.

Damo · Post by **Damo** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 8:49 pm

Plastic tax

aggi · Post by **aggi** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:10 pm

GodIsADeeJay81 wrote:Just seen that Adidas link.

That's just a massive con really isn't it?

Buy an identical one to what the players wear or a cheap crappier version?

Most clubs with sufficient demand do it. The player kits tend to be a bit less forgiving when something who isn't a professional athlete is wearing them.

For a club like Burnley the demand isn't there so the expensive shirts for the players isn't justified.

scouseclaret · Post by **scouseclaret** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:38 pm

So if the “official” knock of kit is £65, why not just buy a knock off-knock off for a tenner off the market on holiday???

Cirrus_Minor · Post by **Cirrus_Minor** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:49 pm

During the 70s before a home match against Man United thousands were being herded by police on Brunshaw road. A police horse was being used to back itself into the Manchester crowd and this particular horse must have eaten a bad cabbage or something. Anyway it unloaded all over this young kid in a gleaming new United kit worn in the style of the Bay City Rollers, the lad was in tears to the enjoyment of many Burnley fans watching opposite.

Always thought that was the best way to treat someone in this strip.

Rumbletonk · Post by **Rumbletonk** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:55 pm

Utd players are on hundreds of thousands per week. They wont even blink at prices like this even when you consider away kits and training bibs

bodge · Post by **bodge** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 9:55 pm

There can be no doubt whatsoever that football would be enriched by the total eradication of Manchester United and its odious fan base.

Bop · Post by **Bop** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:45 pm

Epitomises everything that’s wrong with modern football. Aside from the other 137 things.

LS7 · Post by **LS7** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:48 pm

Are you a grown up Bodge? United fan base is made up of a) Mancunians, b) people from all over who began supporting them as children - as people do, same as Liverpool and increasingly City c) maybe a few corporate types, who cares.

Do you hate Barcelona, Real, AC Milan too?

If only everyone was as authentic as you and all the other moral arbiters of UTC.

LS7 · Post by **LS7** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:49 pm

You might as well argue for the eradication of Adidas.

LS7 · Post by **LS7** » Tue Jul 17, 2018 11:52 pm

Personally i like City United and Liverpool as globally iconic and progressive brands from northern England.

Foulthrow · Post by **Foulthrow** » Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:19 am

The problem with these kits being this expensive is it isn't really adults buying them. I'd imagine the majority are bought by kids. And that means parents being put under pressure to buy something like this at such an inflated price.

JohnMac · Post by **JohnMac** » Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:51 am

The 'Authentic' shirt is actually £409.95 because you need a year at the gym to get it to fit properly

randomclaret2 · Post by **randomclaret2** » Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:58 am

"Globally iconic and progressive brands "...pass the sick bag

Spike · Post by **Spike** » Wed Jul 18, 2018 1:14 pm

just so that no-one can be in any doubt that referees favour Man U they are officially wearing referees shorts this next season

Jimmymaccer · Post by **Jimmymaccer** » Wed Jul 18, 2018 11:24 pm

There’ll be some on the market in Fuengirola next Friday for £25 if any numpty wants one.

JTClaret · Post by **JTClaret** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:33 am

That's what they do with American football shirts.
Authentic and replica

Do Burnley players tend to wear the same material as the fans?

Stayingup · Post by **Stayingup** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:10 pm

ayrshireclaret83 wrote:Full strip

Shirt £109.95
Shorts £42.95
Socks £29.95

Total £182.85

Unbelievable

Course some of their fans are .... well that stupid they would go and watch the grass grow at OT. So they will buy the shirts.

Stayingup · Post by **Stayingup** » Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:11 pm

JohnMac wrote:The 'Authentic' shirt is actually £409.95 because you need a year at the gym to get it to fit properly

Has Phil Jones got a special then?