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by **Reg** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:32 am

Hardly inspiring eh?

by **Dundalk** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:38 am

No its not but 15 million a year from them is better then the 8 million Carlsberg cough up. Looks arent everything didnt your parents ever tell you that

by **Kharhaz** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 12:46 am

Dundalk wrote:Looks arent everything didnt your parents ever tell you that

Not to me, I was born, raised and went grey gorgeous !

by **Owzat** » Fri Aug 07, 2009 7:16 am

Would have thought red bull would sponsor Blackburn if anyone, their shirts look like the drink cans so it would be great marketing for the company and not bad for the club.

As for us, well I'd love to go back to Crown Paints and they can't be short of a penny or two. While we should be using the mancs' sponsorship as a yardstick, let's not get carried away and think of it as a benchmark that we have to reach. Even halfway between our current deal and their's would be something, don't forget they sell more shirts than us simply because of all their plastic fans in the far east, US and every town in this country with few exceptions. Their fans all remember where they were when the mancs won in the nou camp, in russia, when they won the carling cup etc - in front of the tv where they always are!

No harm in being ambitious, but we must be realistic that the club winning the Premiership will doubtless gain the most armchair glory hunters. I don't doubt we gained some when we won in Istanbul, but they're the ones with the recent hoard of trophies and that's where the shirt selling power is. They may well lose some now that the diving portugeser has gone, although Owen has now gone from poisoned dwarf to saviour come new messiah in the eyes of a lot of supposed manc fans. They'd be deriding him as "past it" and "injury prone", a diving cheat well past his best and never that good (because he played for us) but once he was signing for them he was going to surprise us all, be signing of the season and score more goals than Ronaldo. Of course that may just be the majority consensus of the non M postcode brigade, but I bet a few in the right postcode areas have changed their tune. We'll see when their first home game is played, then again how many of them will be locals?

by **Feeney** » Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:25 pm

Had a conversation at lunch over this very subject. It pretty much echoed a lot of comments on here.

As a collective, a lot of fans are simply too short-sighted and fussy when it comes to shirt sponsorship.

"I don't want that on the shirt"

"That wouldn't go on our shirt"

"Don't want it to look sh!t"

When it comes down to it, who gives a f*ck what sponsor we have, as long as it pays the largest and most lucrative sum of money to be there? Admittedly, we are not going to accept "ar$e lickers ltd" on the front of the shirt for £60M per year, but neither would anyone else.

I seriously think a lot of fans need to get real with ther expectations and valuation of what Liverpool can currently command. We will not get more than Man U, nor Real Madrid simply because as a commodity we are not marketed to the degree they are, thus cannot pull in the same revenue.

If we can get a £15M per year with Standard Chartered, i'd like to see the fool who would turn it down because 'it didn't look good on the shirt' ran over by a rusty tractor and then set upon by a herd of carniverous gerbils.

Sorry for the rant, but I think a lot of people need to simply 'get real' and stop putting asthetics ahead of business. You can win ugly as well as win pretty.

by **Reg** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:01 am

Yeah but you have to draw the line at 'Chang' beer ffs.......

by **Youlin** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:51 pm

I think the logo of Carlsberg is great for liverpool
I like the green on the away kit, while coca cola may be red
So I made pictures in Photoshop:

The home kit looks okay

by **tubby** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 4:01 pm

I honestly don't care how it looks physically. If it brings in more money and ultimatley it contributes towards us winning the league that that is what people should be most concerned about.

by **we all dream...** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 10:15 pm

I'll second that Bav. As long as we don't have anything ridicuous it will be fine.

What do you think about naming rights for the new stadium? I think we take the money to call it the red bull arena or whatever but then every fan calls it The New Anfield and we will be fine.

by **Octsky** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:32 am

well, us changing shirt sponsor every couple of years to the highest bidder will need some getting used to, but if it brings us more cash to strengthen the team and not the yanks' pockets, then so be it.

but for me, the naming rights of our new stadium, if there's a new stadium, will be out of question. Our stadium's name will be our's, it's an important part of our traditions and heritage.
no point winning titles if we lose our identity in becoming a corporate b1tch. This we couldnt sell.

by **Penguins** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:53 am

Please come back to reality.

Saying stuff like:

"Our stadium's name will be our's, it's an important part of our traditions and heritage." makes me shake my head.

Our stadium will be sold to by whoever wants it as long as they pay alot of money. That is a 100% guaranteed!
Too much money we are talking about here and money rules period.

by **Owzat** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:10 am

Feeney wrote:Sorry for the rant, but I think a lot of people need to simply 'get real' and stop putting asthetics ahead of business. You can win ugly as well as win pretty.

Don't forget that the replica shirt is now part of fashion, not just a shirt worn by outfield players on matchday but worn by all their supporters and glory hunters like other people wear t-shirts, polo-shirts, ties etc. So to them it is as important as the colour, the design or picture on a t-shirt, style etc

And the sponsor name can reflect the "cool" of the person wearing it, plus the "cooler" the sponsor the more you can dig at rivals who have naff foreign sponsor names

by **tubby** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:56 am

we all dream... wrote:I'll second that Bav. As long as we don't have anything ridicuous it will be fine.

What do you think about naming rights for the new stadium? I think we take the money to call it the red bull arena or whatever but then every fan calls it The New Anfield and we will be fine.

We will almost certainly sell the naming rights to someone. Hopefully we should get plenty of decent offers. Red Bull arena sounds good but the arena part sounds sort of American to me. Maybe it's just me but it has a nice ring.

I'd like it if Adidas bought the rights. The Adidas Arena sounds boss.

by **ox5** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:43 am

good to be back.....is the new sponsar going to be Standard bank??

by **Octsky** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 4:19 am

Penguins wrote:Please come back to reality.

Saying stuff like:

"Our stadium's name will be our's, it's an important part of our traditions and heritage." makes me shake my head.

Our stadium will be sold to by whoever wants it as long as they pay alot of money. That is a 100% guaranteed!
Too much money we are talking about here and money rules period.

Money isnt everything. thats why Torres is still playing for us instead of Roman's money.

saying this is like saying that you are okay with "Google stadium", "MacDonald's stadium" or "Microsoft stadium".

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