The New Kits Thread

Heardy said:
I'd buy that for sure. Far better than our home kits for a good few years!!
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No way, that just looks like a red Chelsea shirt. I really hate those shirts that are supposed to be skin tight like modern rugby shirts, they're ugly and just look chavstastic.

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The best shirt in recent years has been the 06/07 shirt in my opinion, followed by this current season's (11-12) and then in third place 07-09, which I like to call the Mustang shirt on account of the white go faster stripe down the back.
 
decorativeed said:
Yes, there are lots of things I don't like about adidas - many of the same things as you - but they are also capable of making stunning kits on occasion whereas Nike are just getting worse and worse (although not quite as bad as Puma). Umbro would be ideal but as they are owned by Nike it's never going to happen.

I don't think United are synonymous with Nike either, and surely Barca and Brazil are just as big assets for them.
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No not really. You go through Asia and Nike have massive billboards of United and Rooney.

And it's been so long since United wore anybody else that most fans have the Nike tick on their jersey. Same reason why Real are unlikely to lose Adidas any time soon. You've got them v Barca 'nike' in la liga, and us v real in the global context.
 
decorativeed said:
Yes, they are dreadful, aren't they?!

Anyway, here's an idea of what a modern United shirt would look like if made by adidas - all I've done is added the logos and tweaked the colours on a couple of their templates for this season:

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Shame the three stripes stop a tad short. I love Adidas, would love to see United done the three stripes again.
 
decorativeed said:
Yes, they are dreadful, aren't they?!

Anyway, here's an idea of what a modern United shirt would look like if made by adidas - all I've done is added the logos and tweaked the colours on a couple of their templates for this season:

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Dont see the problem with that, looks clean and simple the way they should do not fecking checkered or tartan. Some of you must not remember United in the 80's that design there evokes them quite well!
 
It's a fan-made image using a template. There are sites where people contribute hundreds of these fantasy designs every day. Why do people keep posting these thing as though they are the real kits?
 
decorativeed said:
It's a fan-made image using a template. There are sites where people contribute hundreds of these fantasy designs every day. Why do people keep posting these thing as though they are the real kits?
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Ah my mistake. Not very good at spotting fakes/non fakes and very little knowledge of photoshop etc. as well. As a result you definitely won't find me posting any kits on here though!
 
It's the presentation that gives it away - kits generally get leaked by people posting photos of them lying on a stockroom floor. The ones that are graphics on a blank background are generally fan-made.
 
Not a kit, but part of Liverpool's new official clothing line. Gawd 'elp 'em...

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I really like them Adidas ones. I can't see us ever switching from Nike in this day and age.
 
I really wonder why Nike doesn't get it right.

Being their biggest client, they probably have a huge team researching and developing kits.So surely they have observed common themes for United fans and what they want to see on their kits. The common themes are so prevalent: a collar that isn't shit, the right colour red, an embroidered badge, a simplistic retro design, a black away kit, etc.
 
Bear Attack said:
I really wonder why Nike doesn't get it right.

Being their biggest client, they probably have a huge team researching and developing kits.So surely they have observed common themes for United fans and what they want to see on their kits. The common themes are so prevalent: a collar that isn't shit, the right colour red, an embroidered badge, a simplistic retro design, a black away kit, etc.
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The thing is, they know they can turn out a stinker of a kit and people will still buy it while others won't but they will buy the next one a year later which will have been an easy improvement upon the last one. Their kits for Barca have been just as poor in my opinion. The other driving force is the production cost to Nike, so anything requiring construction much more complicated thn a t-shirt is out, a decent collar is out and an embroidered crest is out (although that is the case with most manufacturers now and even the players wear printed crests on their shirts nowadays).
 
I'd love one of those... or the green one for that matter.

But most of the replicas I've seen have that annoying "3" logo on them.

Can anyone point me to a link where they sell Ireland kits without the sponsor logo on them? Please.
 
decorativeed said:
The thing is, they know they can turn out a stinker of a kit and people will still buy it while others won't but they will buy the next one a year later which will have been an easy improvement upon the last one. Their kits for Barca have been just as poor in my opinion. The other driving force is the production cost to Nike, so anything requiring construction much more complicated thn a t-shirt is out, a decent collar is out and an embroidered crest is out (although that is the case with most manufacturers now and even the players wear printed crests on their shirts nowadays).
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England's World Cup kit was class and it was basically just a glorified white polo. However, I would agree that Nike seems to be minimizing the cost in every facet of the kit.

But this invites me to ask the question, why is Umbro getting it right? Do they have an entire different ideology? I mean if you feel the quality of a City kit, it is just top class whilst the United kits feel like a P.E. uniform.

By the way, that Ireland kit is fantastic.
 
204Red said:
I'd love one of those... or the green one for that matter.

But most of the replicas I've seen have that annoying "3" logo on them.

Can anyone point me to a link where they sell Ireland kits without the sponsor logo on them? Please.
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Don't think you can buy them without sponsors, the FAI have always sold the fans' shirts with sponsors on them to make money, it's part of the sponsorship deal that nobody can buy an Ireland shirt without the sponsors goes all the way back to the days when Opel sponsored them in the 80s.
 
Bear Attack said:
England's World Cup kit was class and it was basically just a glorified white polo. However, I would agree that Nike seems to be minimizing the cost in every facet of the kit.

But this invites me to ask the question, why is Umbro getting it right? Do they have an entire different ideology? I mean if you feel the quality of a City kit, it is just top class whilst the United kits feel like a P.E. uniform.

By the way, that Ireland kit is fantastic.
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That England kit was the first in the "Tailored by Umbro" range and it might have looked like a polo, but the materials and construction of it was what made it revolutionary. They stripped the design back to basics and added modern touches that were invisible except on close inspection. They put cotton back into them and made them something you'd actually enjoy wearing rather than a few sheets of wafer-thin polyester. I think that the "tailored by" stuff was instigated by the takeover by Nike too, so they could have extended that philosophy to the rest of their brand but they didn't. The Umbro stuff must cost a good few times more to produce than Nike's kits, especially as they supply teams with less marketing appeal than Nike do.

I'm considering exploring the possibility of producing some traditional/modern football shirts myself and possibly sell them if it goes well. Made in the UK, classic designs, no logos, will last a decade rather than a year. Only a pipe dream at the moment though.
 
No chance. We won't be having a new blue kit next year (especially one that is so similar to the current one)
 
decorativeed said:
The thing is, they know they can turn out a stinker of a kit and people will still buy it while others won't but they will buy the next one a year later which will have been an easy improvement upon the last one. Their kits for Barca have been just as poor in my opinion. The other driving force is the production cost to Nike, so anything requiring construction much more complicated thn a t-shirt is out, a decent collar is out and an embroidered crest is out (although that is the case with most manufacturers now and even the players wear printed crests on their shirts nowadays).
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Embroidered badges have been replaced due to comfort and weight - it is more comfortable not having the embroidery on this inside of the shirt, and it weighs less to have a printed/bonded badge.

As for the collar, it is felt that it can be a distraction and uncomfortable.
 
Bear Attack said:
England's World Cup kit was class and it was basically just a glorified white polo. However, I would agree that Nike seems to be minimizing the cost in every facet of the kit.

But this invites me to ask the question, why is Umbro getting it right? Do they have an entire different ideology? I mean if you feel the quality of a City kit, it is just top class whilst the United kits feel like a P.E. uniform.

By the way, that Ireland kit is fantastic.
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Nike's big push is making all their football kits out of 100% recycled material. This is actually a more expensive process (given that they have to maintain performance standards regarding breathability and moisture management).

Umbro has a different perspective as a football brand, hence the "Tailored by Umbro". Nike is going to maintain this difference so that it can attack adidas and gain market share in football from two different perspectives.
 
Ramshock said:
I wish they would let the fans have input in design by voting on several templates and colours etc since its the fans that buy them. I havent liked a United away shirt since this one which I thought was mint

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I loved that kit, whenever I see it, I think that that Liverpool game when Tevez scored the winner and Anderson was mint

Also, the 2-2 Middlesbrough game where we played in the snow. Alves did the only thing of significance in his entire career. I'm so happy Middlesbrough and Southgate aren't in the PL anymore
 
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