Newcastle new sponsers?

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Newcastle pulled the plug on their virgin deal early yesterday.

Anyone got any rumours? People are hinting at naming rights and shirt deal.

Or could it be sports direct?
 
Andybtsn said:
Supporters who bought this seasons strip will it be out of date already?
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No doubt there will be a free patch like last year :D

Any remember if we sign a new puma deal this year? Last I heard it was running out this year. Not sure if we resigned
 
Shirt sponsorship makes or breaks a shirt.

Virgin Money didn't look too bad on the strip.

Sports Direct will look hideous on any top. There is more than enough Sports Direct sponsorship plastered all over the place as it is!
 
Virgin was nice, one of the better ones. I fear what he's planning, SD.com would be financially stupid, no one would buy it so it would have to be a huge amount of money to make up for it. Virgin are paying £10m a year as it is, plus what they'd lose on top of no sales, so all in all, no, it won't be sports direct, but its likely to be something horrendous knowing him.
 
I couldn't care less. If it means more money they can put whatever company or brand on the front of the shirt they like.

No doubt it will end up being sports direct, and this will just cause uproar again. Personally that is fine, provided Ashley pulls some terrific signings this January to save our potentially abysmal season...
 
Nike I've heard. Kit manufacturer, shirt sponsor and stadium naming rights. Could be complete horlicks!
 
Mark M said:
Nike I've heard. Kit manufacturer, shirt sponsor and stadium naming rights. Could be complete horlicks!
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I heard that before we signed up to virgin. Haven't we committed to puma for a while since then?
 
rossk26 said:
I couldn't care less. If it means more money they can put whatever company or brand on the front of the shirt they like.

No doubt it will end up being sports direct, and this will just cause uproar again. Personally that is fine, provided Ashley pulls some terrific signings this January to save our potentially abysmal season...
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At least one fan with common sense, you might lose your best few players, to injury, or wanting to leave, wages will increase, debt is always a dangerous thing and clubs are relatively susceptible to it at any time. You want Newcastle to make as much as possible basically, if that comes through your owner exploiting that brand as much as he can, it doesn't matter. 20mil more to Newcastle or 20mil more to Sportsdirect, either would mean 20mil more for Ashley to invest, or 20mil less he needs to find from player sales, etc, etc.

If you guys can get a better deal that is all there is to it basically, the "but it looks crap on the shirts" lot are a little embarrassing, do you know how many smaller teams have daft sponsors and silly names on their shirts who would absolutely kill to have sportsdirect on their shirt and some financial stability along with it.

Considering what Ashley has done for the club, I'd love to see some actual figures but he paid £130mil or so for the club afaik, and they were in heavy debt when he took over which he basically paid off(£100mil or so its claimed), and there was money coming out for years on old transfers and huge wages which meant he was covering the losses basically up till last season. I would assume he's lost what must be above £300mil by now, if someone saved my club I'd be grateful and would happily take a crap sponsor if it meant a stronger club, let alone an owner who has given up a hell of a lot for the club.

If my club were in 100mil of debt, with a terrible manager who bought up half the leagues most overpaid players in one fell swoop, I'd happily have Durex or Aldi, or anything on the Arsenal shirt if it meant a safer more secure club and to help out the manager who got us out of that situation on his own dime.
 
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Ashley doesn't own SD outright, therefore it's not £20m to him in either capacity, he'd be losing out if he puts SD on the shirts and doesn't make them pay for it, and SD won't pay the going rate, so it's a lose lose situation and why it won't happen.

It would be different if he got SD to buy nufc off him, but ATM two separate companies, one part owned, one fully owned.
 
Anything reliable to back-up the £10m per year that dokko mentioned the Virgin deal was worth? £10m seemed ott to me. £8m seems much more realistic for a club of Newcastle's size and stature.
 
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