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Arsenal also played in an Ajax type kit pretty recently with weird navy bits on it too. Liverpool played in a kit with diagonal orange stripes/flashes. United played in a red and black fading kit, City whacked a maroon collar in and centralised the badges. Clubs tweak things, it happens everywhere and it’s nothing to do with destroying tradition. Such melodramatic nonsense. Clubs like to mix it up and it makes commercial sense. If you churn out the same design every single year then you see more sales drop off because people who are in the target markets go ‘looks just like the one I have already, I’ll just wear this instead’. If it looks good in person/on pitch and we play well in it, then it’ll sell. That’s how it goes.

It has literally got red and white stripes on it.

Reading are a League One side nowadays but the point probably still stands 😂

But she didn’t pull the funding, did she? The funding continued pretty strongly with her until she sold 80% to Gao, that’s when the funding got pulled. Also to answer the bit in bold: quite a bit if he was a competent executive? We still had a top half wage bill for our time under her ownership. It was only once Gao became the majority shareholder that Semmens was tasked with wrestling the wage bill down. At one point it was the biggest wage bill outside the top 6, from memory,

Thank fuck. That’ll do, get rid.

Puts an end to the Leeds rumours - presumably was never going to drop to the Championship.

Is he young and hungry?

This year is 100 years since Hummel’s foundation I believe (?) so I think they’re giving a load of old favourites a reboot for their clients as part of that.

Was wondering the same. But perhaps if the speculation about Sportsbet no longer being the sponsor after relegation are true, there’s a chance JD Sports move to front of shirt? We’re not allowed sleeve sponsors in the Championship (due to EFL and SkyBet sleeve patches) so I wonder if JD would go with a red circle logo with their letters in white to shift to the front of the shirt?

Well, if he's going to Ligue 1 at least it's a club like Nice. They're owned by Jim Ratcliffe, so could/should be able to spend on a reasonable fee.

Sport Republic now completing the purchase of Valenciennes: Sport Republic, owner of Southampton, now finalize the acquisition of Valenciennes after months and months of negotiation. One of the conditions was maintaining in Ligue 2.

I'm pretty sure David Sullivan said on talksport that they will be going for more than one player to replace Rice in midfield, given the size of the fee. Telegraph reporting that they're targeting JWP and Edson Alvarez as the replacements, with JWP as #1 summer target. Also mentioned Harvey Barnes as a target.

Rule changes announced.