I work in Stoke and I overheard some of the lads discussing their new kits (bold choice of purple for their away kit next season). I was suprised at how on the ball they were getting both home and away kits on sale for the 1st June. I mentioned this and they said it was relatively late for them.

It got me wondering why are we so slow to get our new kits on sale? Surely getting them out late May early June will give everyone the opportunity to purchase the new kit for their summer holidays.

I prefer wearing string vests on holiday so never a really problem for me

Maybe the club are still negotiating the best deal for a shirt sponsor.

Less than half of the Premier League teams have unveiled their kit for next season.
4 of them being the top 4.
Won't be that late by any stretch. We'll see it soon anyway given that we had our new kit shoot a while ago and we have to have it ready for the Europa League games.

claptrappers_union wrote:Maybe the club are still negotiating the best deal for a shirt sponsor.

Indeed.

Some people will never be satisfied!

Why do people wear football shirts on their summer holidays?

I get people think pre Fathers day and summer holidays are a great to get the kit out, but how many who want them that badly for them occasions, wont just buy 1 when the are out anyway.
The shirts will most probably be out for the summer holidays ( when the schools break up )

July is when the kit will be available to purchase, not a day earlier I'm told, but we may get to see a glimpse of it before then.

I haven’t bought a replica kit for years. Purely from a marketing perspective. These kits have a shelf life of 12 months... I’d expect the majority of sales to be within the first 3 months. Surely if we get the kit out a month earlier, we’d increase sales? It’s either that or have the old kit on sale an extra month at the end of its life cycle.

Please don’t think I’m having a go at the club here. It just seems like an opportunity to increase shirts sales (however slight) is being missed.

May be the club want to claw some money back by flogging off the old shirts/merchandise we still have left this season first.
Then there's the logic that we maybe squeezing an extra 50-100k more from competing shirt sponsors.

You'd have to shift a hell of a lot of shirts to people who will only every buy them if sold in May/June to make it worth while.
I doubt the figure of people in that bracket is that high, to warrant rushing any kit launch.

Just think, releasing shirts later, selling off soon to be old uneanted stock, and maximising sponsorship, is what keeps the prices of the Twix so reasonable.

To be fair I think the OP has a good point. I cannot remember a season when we got the new kit out early and we have also missed the summer holidays before.
If it was a sponsor negotiation thing that's fine but it happens almost every year and its hard to understand why.

claptrappers_union wrote:Maybe the club are still negotiating the best deal for a shirt sponsor.

Didn’t they have the pictures done the other week?

Will it be Ben Mee and Sam Vokes as models this year?

Bordeauxclaret wrote:Didn’t they have the pictures done the other week?

Yep, can't be still getting a supplier. Kit photoshoot has already been done

Bordeauxclaret wrote:Didn’t they have the pictures done the other week?

Yes they did.

It takes a long time, to produce 8k shirts, when you're near the back of the queue.

deanothedino wrote:Yep, can't be still getting a supplier. Kit photoshoot has already been done

Yes the SUPPLIER is in place ...

Bordeauxclaret wrote:Didn’t they have the pictures done the other week?

Yes, but the sponsor is sometimes Photoshopped on afterwards

nyclaret wrote:Why do people wear football shirts on their summer holidays?

Very swish in the airport

nyclaret wrote:Why do people wear football shirts on their summer holidays?

What's wrong with it?

claptrappers_union wrote:Maybe the club are still negotiating the best deal for a shirt sponsor.

Has that not already been sorted?

Shows how out of touch I am, I thought Dafabet had another year to go.

It's not Dafabet, but we do have another sponsor. That's the reason for the delay I'm told. It could now be July before the kit is available.

ClaretTony wrote:It's not Dafabet, but we do have another sponsor. That's the reason for the delay I'm told. It could now be July before the kit is available.

I got told the same, not a day earlier than July, possibly well into July.

Sounds like our first Europa game will be shirts versus skins.

Grimsdale wrote:Sounds like our first Europa game will be shirts versus skins.

Couldn't wear our PL kit for Europa League ties - no gambling adverts allowed in UEFA competitions

I think we all knew it'd be late...

bfcmik wrote:Couldn't wear our PL kit for Europa League ties - no gambling adverts allowed in UEFA competitions

Wonder if the club are either going to have a blank shirt or have a "one off" sponsor if that's the case?

bfcmik wrote:Couldn't wear our PL kit for Europa League ties - no gambling adverts allowed in UEFA competitions

Not sure where you've got that from. It certainly wasn't the case in the season just ended.

Here's Everton ahead of one of their Europa League games.

I heard/read it wrong - if you are playing in a country that bans whatever company, product or service is your sponsor then that ban must be complied with by wearing a previously approved kit.

In certain countries such as France teams play without a betting or alcohol sponsor and just have it blank.

Everton had ‘Everton In The Community’ on their shirts when they played at Lyon last season.

nyclaret wrote:Why do people wear football shirts on their summer holidays?

I would suspect that a lot of people like to wear football shirts on their summer holidays. I tend not to but my 10 year old son loves his Burnley top and wears it whenever he can. I never understand why some people are so judgemental about what other people wear though.

Match day and on holiday is the only place I wear mine. I'm proud to show it off around fans of other teams, especially these days. It can also be a great conversation starter at your hotel etc.

ClaretTony wrote:Not sure where you've got that from. It certainly wasn't the case in the season just ended.

Here's Everton ahead of one of their Europa League games.

No wonder the toffees had a poor season. No chemistry between those players at all in that picture. Rooney looks like he can't get away quick enough and MK looks totally dejected.

karatekid wrote:No wonder the toffees had a poor season. No chemistry between those players at all in that picture. Rooney looks like he can't get away quick enough and MK looks totally dejected.

I hadn't really looked at the pic in any detail, but they hardly look a team do they?

karatekid wrote:No wonder the toffees had a poor season. No chemistry between those players at all in that picture. Rooney looks like he can't get away quick enough and MK looks totally dejected.

Looks like Rooney is struggling to squat. Dodgy knees.

Boohoo the new sponsor....

ClaretTony wrote:I hadn't really looked at the pic in any detail, but they hardly look a team do they?

That's how they defended!

BurnleySYS wrote:Boohoo the new sponsor....

No need to cry about it

So is it Boohoo or Boohoo man who are our sponsors?

As long as the season doesn't end up with us all going "boo-hoo", I don't mind...

ClaretAndJew wrote:So is it Boohoo or Boohoo man who are our sponsors?

Boohoourns.

quoonbeatz wrote:Boohoourns.

QuooHoon

BurnleySYS wrote:Boohoo the new sponsor....

I predicted that months a go.

Know a few people who work there and they’re always in a commercial box and at all the clubs official functions.

Boohoo will be well short of what we would get for a bookie. £10m reported a few months ago wasn't it? Can't see it happening.

Also their clothes are f*cking vile.

Ladbrokes

Burnleyliam wrote:

Nice ..not quite right but nice

Nobody will come close to what a betting company can offer.
I don't think it'll be Dafabet this season, but it'll be some other bookie.

Ive heard Fun88 are back in the mix...also heard Paddy Power but I imagine that was because of our Irish link

Burnleyliam wrote:

Liam can you do a black away kit? Seen as that is what we getting!