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I see Adidas have sacked off sponsoring LFC's kit as LFC aren't worth the money they're asking.
LFC sign a record deal to have Warrior Sports supply their kit, and Warrior Sports are part owned by John Henry.
Good job Financial Fair Play applies only to European competition and therefore not a concern for LFC.
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Says the man whose clubs policy is basically to 'buy everyone'
Except for Andy Carroll.
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I see Adidas have sacked off sponsoring LFC's kit as LFC aren't worth the money they're asking.
LFC sign a record deal to have Warrior Sports supply their kit, and Warrior Sports are part owned by John Henry.
Good job Financial Fair Play applies only to European competition and therefore not a concern for LFC.
a sound financial investment it is too, they are also owned by New Balance I believe.
Good to see you know the fair play rules
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Apparently Chelseas Russian has been up to some dodgy shenanigans again.
Isn't about time someone shot him or something?keep your head down if you're going to talk about ^that^
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I see Adidas have sacked off sponsoring LFC's kit as LFC aren't worth the money they're asking.
LFC sign a record deal to have Warrior Sports supply their kit, and Warrior Sports are part owned by John Henry.
Good job Financial Fair Play applies only to European competition and therefore not a concern for LFC.
ahem .... and who sponsors your stadium again for a world record yearly sum
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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.
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HAHAHAAHAHAH 'Warrior Sports', almost as bad as XTEP
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Remember when adidas were properly uncool in the early 90s? You'd get ripped for wearing adidas in my school.
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liverpool sacked adidas
Oh really??
*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*
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Know nothing, armchair, talkin out their shitters, plastic, glory hunting, cockney, where's my Liverpool A-Z, Sky generation, never went to Istanbul, Murdoch supporting CUNTS!
Oh Hai Dicki
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Aintree to Anfield is a bit of a walk so I call LIES!
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Proudly never been to Liverpool.
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Unfortunately, I've been to Birmingham on numerous occasions. Awful, awful place
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I think we all know that Adidas would have wanted to continue the deal, but at the right price.
Liverpool will continue to sell shirts for a long time, regardless of our success on pitch, thanks to the generation who watched in the 70s/80s, and their kids.
Obviously that won't last forever, but as long as we have the right marketing in the far east that can still last for a long time.
Clearly this deal is above market value, hence Adidas dropping out. The question of course is why are Warrior paying so much. Is it some backdoor way of getting around the spending rules? Maybe. Is it because they want to break into the European market? Maybe.
Either way, I'm not complaining.
Interestingly Adidas have form on this front. When the German national team contract came up for negotiation, Nike tried their hardest to get the contract, as the German shirt is Adidas's prize contract. Maybe not in terms of money earned, but simply as it's status as a German company, that and Bayern are the ones they would never want to lose. So Adidas refused to meet Nike's offer, and in the end Germany turned down the money, and stuck with Adidas.
Clearly in this case Liverpool have called their bluff.
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WTF's goin' on in here today, it's a total whopper's convention...
The Kopites are here
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The koppites haven't lost for a while so their danders are up.