That may be the real design, but those are clearly cheap fakes.
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The home kit may be for real, but UA is losing their most prominent customer in world football which is a market they're pretty desperate to get into in their quest to gain market share from Nike and Adidas. In essence, they'll be trying to put themselves in the shop window this season...I seriously doubt they're going to give us home and away shirts with the exact same design. Wouldn't be good for marketing themselves to other clubs.
UA have had a terrible 2016 with their headline teams and sports personality sponsorships. Jordan Speith, Steph Curry, Andy Murray, all had failures this year. Then our unsuccessful title bid. UA have signed up with Southampton who will be their main kit deal in the PL. The wheels seem to have fallen off for them somewhat.
Curry broke numerous records, did things for 8 months that most basketball people had simply never contemplated as possible, became the most embraced player in the NBA, was the major part of the winningest team in NBA history, further pushed the revolution in basketball behind the arc, and became the first unanimous MVP in history. He had a bad few games and lost in the final minute of the final game of the season. Hardly a failure, their coup getting Curry a couple years ago is still a MASSIVE win for UA.
Breaking records is one thing, see some of our own stats from last season. However ultimately it's about emerging as the champions. GSW may have gone 73/9 but they will always be remembered as losing the Championship to the Cavs and LeBron. Having lead the series 3-1, that is a spectacular failure.
The away is probably a fake. Its been discussed on other sites already. Really unlikely that the sponsor would be in red on a dark kit.
It's not the real design
Hope you're right. They're unwearable, not that a 30-something-something should ever be wearing a football shirt.
andy murray. reached 2 grandslam finals in this calendar year. thats not a failure
If the standard for a sportswear's endorsement contract is to win a championship, then the bastards are fucking abysmal at it considering they all fail way more than they possibly ever succeed.
Nike, Adidas, UA, New Balance, Joma, Kappa, et al. are in the game for the profile that comes with the visibility of their products.
Steph Curry was the most watched and glorified basketball player on the planet over the past 2 years, their relationship with him has been a massive success regardless of losing the last minute of game 7 of the NBA finals.
Andy Murray is one of the most successful tennis players on the planet and has played numerous extremely high profile matches televised to high ratings throughout the world. Their relationship with him is a massive success regardless of winning a major.
Jordan Speith is one of the faces of golf around the globe, one of the winningest players on tour in the past year, and one of the players who's followed on camera throughout pretty much every round he plays, is the subject of numerous press interview requests, and a hero of the game to many young players starting out. UA's relationship with him has been a massive success, regardless of his performance at the Masters and US Open.
Spurs competed for the Premier League title down to the very last month, had their highest finish in PL history, and have become one of the highest profile clubs throughout the world during their time with UA. That relationship, as well, has been a massive success.
The company has leveraged it's marketing deals with these players and our club to rapidly expand its marketshare and global brand. It's experienced 24 consecutive quarters reporting revenue growth greater than 20%. It's well ahead of projected targets to increase revenue to above $11 billion USD.
In short, I doubt you'll find anyone connected to UA that will agree with you that these relationships have been a failure.
I do have to say thank you though, I just placed a stock order...
Nike, Adidas, UA, New Balance, Joma, Kappa, et al. are in the game for the profile that comes with the visibility of their products.
Steph Curry was the most watched and glorified basketball player on the planet over the past 2 years, their relationship with him has been a massive success regardless of losing the last minute of game 7 of the NBA finals.
Andy Murray is one of the most successful tennis players on the planet and has played numerous extremely high profile matches televised to high ratings throughout the world. Their relationship with him is a massive success regardless of winning a major.
Jordan Speith is one of the faces of golf around the globe, one of the winningest players on tour in the past year, and one of the players who's followed on camera throughout pretty much every round he plays, is the subject of numerous press interview requests, and a hero of the game to many young players starting out. UA's relationship with him has been a massive success, regardless of his performance at the Masters and US Open.
Spurs competed for the Premier League title down to the very last month, had their highest finish in PL history, and have become one of the highest profile clubs throughout the world during their time with UA. That relationship, as well, has been a massive success.
The company has leveraged it's marketing deals with these players and our club to rapidly expand its marketshare and global brand. It's experienced 24 consecutive quarters reporting revenue growth greater than 20%. It's well ahead of projected targets to increase revenue to above $11 billion USD.
In short, I doubt you'll find anyone connected to UA that will agree with you that these relationships have been a failure.
I do have to say thank you though, I just placed a stock order...
Doesn't he have the highest number of grand slam finals that have been lost?
Specialist in failure
So with Nike signing a deal with Chelsea, Puma signed with Woolwich, and Adidas cutting back in order to afford some of their huge endorsement deals ($900 million for Man United, $200 mil for Harden, a rumored $1billion+ deal for Madrid, etc.), is it possible that UA might end up renewing their deal with Spurs?
2/10 at GS final - worst ever
To paint reaching 10 Grand Slam finals as a failure is ludicrous.
Never reaching a grand slam final is failure. Reaching 1 final is way more than most players will ever achieve, never mind 10 finals.
In the context of GS finals stats - he's at the bottom - that's all I'm saying
We have signed a £25m a year deal with Nike.
no.
Best ever second place winner!
I did say UA had a terrible 2016 with their sports endorsements, due to their players/teams all having spectacular failures.
Curry maybe the player of the moment, however he has one kick, Nike have a raft of other kicks KD's, LeBrons, Kobes, AF1s, Airmaxs and I've not even mentioned Jordans. If you cannot see that losing game 7 in the final minute isn't spectacular failure, having gone 73-9 a record in the regular season, leading the finals series 3-1. No team until GSW had ever lost a series having led 3-1 or been record breakers getting there. It's got to rank as one of the biggest bottle jobs.
Since switching to UA Andy 'specialist in failure' Murray hasn't won a grand slam, that was whilst he was still kitted out by adidas.
UA maybe growing, however their market share is still dwarfed by the big players. How many more sides do Nike, Adidas and Puma provide kit to compared to UA? As their only PL side they should be bending over backwards to produce something better than some 'phoned in' nonsense. The big boys are allowed to get away with it due to having years of building their brands.
I've liked some of our previous UA stuff, but looking forward to us getting an elite brand signed up to us.
Curry maybe the player of the moment, however he has one kick, Nike have a raft of other kicks KD's, LeBrons, Kobes, AF1s, Airmaxs and I've not even mentioned Jordans. If you cannot see that losing game 7 in the final minute isn't spectacular failure, having gone 73-9 a record in the regular season, leading the finals series 3-1. No team until GSW had ever lost a series having led 3-1 or been record breakers getting there. It's got to rank as one of the biggest bottle jobs.
Since switching to UA Andy 'specialist in failure' Murray hasn't won a grand slam, that was whilst he was still kitted out by adidas.
UA maybe growing, however their market share is still dwarfed by the big players. How many more sides do Nike, Adidas and Puma provide kit to compared to UA? As their only PL side they should be bending over backwards to produce something better than some 'phoned in' nonsense. The big boys are allowed to get away with it due to having years of building their brands.
I've liked some of our previous UA stuff, but looking forward to us getting an elite brand signed up to us.