Football

Some good news for us today, after a few weeks of shit.

6 year deal announced with Warrior Sports, supposedly for £25M a year, double what Adidas paid. Or in other words, an extra Carroll every 3 years.

Deal agreed for Joao Carlos Teixeira

And in other news, we are in the quarter finals of the NextGen series against Spurs, if we win that we will play Barca or Ajax in the semis. European glory could still be ours this year.

Basically, Adidas are saying you're shite and you're letting down the brand

*Herbert Hainer, the chief executive of Adidas, has claimed that Liverpool's performances on the pitch – including their failure to qualify for European football for the first time in 12 seasons last year – and a difference of opinion over the club's commercial worth have seen the German kit supplier withdraw from negotiations for a new deal. *

*Liverpool are coming to the end of a six-year, £12m-a-season arrangement with Adidas and had opened talks with a view to renewing it, but Hainer is insistent that the Merseyside club have priced themselves out of the market. *

*"The gap between their performance on the field and what the number should be is not in balance," Hainer said. "Then we said: 'OK we will not do it'. That's the end of the story. It all depends on the success and the effort and the popularity, the exposure on TV, revenue you can generate by merchandising. *

*"This all has to be brought in line between what you offer and what you get. We thought that what Liverpool were asking and what they were delivering was not in the right balance." *

*Liverpool have expressed dismay at the comments and are reported to have reached an agreement with the US brand, Warrior Sports, said to be worth £25m a year – trumping Manchester United's contract with Nike, which ploughs around £23.5m into Old Trafford every season. They also claimed that Adidas were unable to grasp the global appeal of Liverpool, regardless of the club's qualification for European competition or not. *

*Their partnership with Adidas started in the 1985‑86 season and after a 10-year hiatus with Reebok, was revived in 2006. *

Sales of the Liverpool's replica shirts are claimed to reach nearly 900,000 a year, *making it the fourth-highest selling kit in the world behind Manchester United, Barcelona and Real Madrid. *

Warrior Sports' parent company, New Balance, won the contract to become the kit supplier to the Boston Red Sox in April 2011, the baseball club owned by Fenway Sports Group – the same organisation now in charge at Anfield.