City Kit for £15

[themightyfin]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/6926112/leicester-fans-kit-adidas-white-away/amp/

 

Yet another example of fans being ripped off 

In the day players get paid thousands a week we are expected to pay out £55 every year and are getting ripped off well and truly. 

This is disgusting don't you agree?

[Tielemans63]

On one hand I agree, it is disgusting but then was anyone really under the impression that any team's shirt was anything other than a basic shirt with a club badge stitched on the chest and a sponsor slapped on the front?

 

You can find a basic / generic version of most team's shirts, it's not particularly newsworthy. It's just that Adidas haven't been particularly smart about it. Doesn't make it right though.

Edited 2 August 2018 by Paddy.

[Rocket-Ron]

this is nothing new, been going on forever.

Edited 2 August 2018 by Rocket-Ron

[HankMarvin]

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[HankMarvin]

I see the Sun are talking bollocks again

 

 

[urban.spaceman]

8 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

I see the Sun are talking bollocks again

 

 

Those are produced on an algorithm based on your own searches...

[HankMarvin]

7 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Those are produced on an algorithm based on your own searches...

Yes thanks 

unfortunately its top story not an ad 

[UniFox21]

59 minutes ago, HankMarvin said:

Yes thanks 

unfortunately its top story not an ad 

"Story" and "Ad" are basically the same thing in the S*n  

[bhav136]

https://www.directsoccer.co.uk/regista-18-ss-jersey--89040

[BlueSi13]

 and pretty much nobody complains.

 

Honestly, I'd happily take an 'unfashionable' brand every day of the week if they decided to give us a kit unique to us.  Far better than paying nearly £60 for Sunday League shirts.

[Nick]

As a minimum I’d expect the shirts for each club not to be a generic template and especially not put on sale in the existing colours.

[yorkie1999]

What's more interesting is how do end up with a 5 stone scrotum?

[leicesterlad1989]

To be fair, how many of us choose to buy a 'trendy' t-shirt with a tiny emblem on for £30+ rather than a £5 plain t-shirt bought at Primark. Both could be argued to be the same quality of t-shirt. The only difference is the logo. It's the same with all football kits. Nothing new here.

 

Anyway, adults who don't play football shouldn't wear football kits.

[los dedos]

I work in print and a few years ago we did some transfers of the England badge for the FA. It cost them 36p each for us to print and apply on a Umbro navy polo. Sports shops sold the Blank navy polo for £5.99 and the one with the England badge for £9.99.

 

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Football shirts are a scam generally, but it's like anything I guess, you're paying for the "brand" like you are if you buy designer clothes. 

 

The shirt is a fiver to make, maximum. Same as the home shirt and the grey one. 

[HighPeakFox]

I will wait until May to buy mine.

[LinekersApples]

You're all missing the point here.  Without such high prices, how can we pay Kalechi twice my annual wage each week?

[Chico1958]

15 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

I will wait until May to buy mine.

Me too.

 

It's our choice whether to buy the shirt, years ago I would buy the shirt when I could afford it.

 

Now I buy the shirt if I want it  

[Al-aLondon-Foxile]

It's a bonus, just buy the cheaper non badged version, you're supporting the team by wearing its colours. 

[Buzzell]

Guess I’ll get the home jersey then 

[KingsX]

I’ve never understood why rich PL clubs pump out color variations on template shirts.

 

Our Cleveland summer league club has Admiral kit with the skyline on the home and an Art Deco design from a city landmark on the away.  Nice enough looking, and truly local.  For a run that can’t exceed several hundred shirts.

 

No Adidas tire tracks of course, so not a status symbol.  But ManU glory hunters aside, why would football kit be a status symbol?  It's a tribal symbol and your tribe should be unique.

 

[Dr The Singh]

I've brought one for £17, and I'm going to draw on the badge, happy days

[rn9013]

11 hours ago, leicesterlad1989 said:

To be fair, how many of us choose to buy a 'trendy' t-shirt with a tiny emblem on for £30+ rather than a £5 plain t-shirt bought at Primark. Both could be argued to be the same quality of t-shirt. The only difference is the logo. It's the same with all football kits. Nothing new here.

 

Anyway, adults who don't play football shouldn't wear football kits.

As someone that has worked for a high end fashion designer, I would argue the quality is unlikely to be the same. 

 

Even taking the quality of the actual clothing item out of the equation, the premium price you are paying for that designer t-shirt over a primark t-shirt covers things such as better service, product knowledge, living wage etc etc. 

 

Im not saying one is better than the other, both ends of the market serve their purpose, and it is up to each individual to decide what is right for them. But to say the only difference is a logo in many cases isn’t true. 

[rn9013]

Nothing new really. We all (should) know replica shirts cost a few quid to manufacture, it’s just that Adidas have made it very obvious by selling the template shirt for a quarter of the price. 

 

 

[Ian Nacho]

Just get a fake one from China which looks identical for a tenner instead.