£90 for a Nikefootball shirt

[Superphil]

Generally prior to previous tournaments Sports Direct have flogged the latest England shirts at £20/£25 and they've sold by the bucketload.


The new kit is a fantastic design combining cutting edge technology with the heritage of England shirts but £90 is just too much.

Do bear in mind the fans replica version is £60, those buying the £90 version will be more of a collector type of person as visually there will be very little to distinguish it from the replica.

Still too much though.

 

[Easy 10]

Will be <£25 in Sport Direct by July 1.

24th June by my reckoning, once we've made our exit.

 

[brightn'ove]

Generally prior to previous tournaments Sports Direct have flogged the latest England shirts at £20/£25 and they've sold by the bucketload.


The new kit is a fantastic design combining cutting edge technology with the heritage of England shirts but £90 is just too much.

It's also all white, so we can pretend that we are real madrid.

 

[supaseagull]

It's the whole kit that's going to cost £90...Still a rip off though

 

[crodonilson]

Do bear in mind the fans replica version is £60, those buying the £90 version will be more of a collector type of person as visually there will be very little to distinguish it from the replica.

Still too much though.

I didn't realise that, in which case I take it all back.

Just pre-ordered mine for the £60.

 

[strings]

I've got a £20 sportsdirect voucher sat at home, so I'll ponder buying the away shirt if it falls to £30 before the start of the tournament.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

On the basis that Albion have secured an up front payment from Nike that is greater than the competition (ie well in excess of £0.5m), Albion will be paying Nike back at a rate of around £30 a shirt, perhaps more. Albion will look to get a profit of £30 a shirt, so I reckon they'll be priced at around the £60 mark or perhaps a fiver less. Change the shirt each season? Well, don't be surprised. Bit of yellow here, bit of tinkering there. You know it makes commercial sense.

 

[Superphil]

It's the whole kit that's going to cost £90...Still a rip off though

Sadly not, it's just the shirt (player specification shirt) for £90. £60 gets you the regular fans replica. Bargain.

 

[Wozza]

24th June by my reckoning, once we've made our exit.

Yeah, I just couldn't be arsed to look it up...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I bet they cost no more than 8 quid at the factory gate.

Anybody got the address of the factory? We can send somebody over to pick up a job lot, pay on the gate.

 

[WhingForPresident]

No, the replica kit is not £90. The "Authentic" version, as in the equivalent of Adidas 'Formotion' player issue shirts, are £90, and they usually are around that price.

The replica is £60 on the Nike site, as they're always more expensive direct from the manufacturer for some reason. It'll be £45 before the World Cup in Sports Direct.

You'd still be a mug to actually buy it, mind.

 

[supaseagull]

Sadly not, it's just the shirt (player specification shirt) for £90. £60 gets you the regular fans replica. Bargain.

£54.99 in Kitbag

http://www.kitbag.com/stores/kitbag/products/kit_selector.aspx?selectorid=90

 

[Luke93]

No one should spend 90 on ANY football shirt. Not even worth 50! I'm sure the price will drop.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

People realise that they don't HAVE to buy this shirt right?

You could just buy the current one for a tenner when Sports Direct reduce it like they always do....

 

[dazzer6666]

Oh has he? I wasn't aware of that. Don't tend to listen to much that guy says!

Maybe it's because we are having a bespoke kit or maybe its just because it's Nike.

If £90 is anywhere near the price of the new shirt then their strap line of "Just Do It" can do one because I certainly wont be "Doing It"!

'Just Do One'

 

[Superphil]

£54.99 in Kitbag

http://www.kitbag.com/stores/kitbag/products/kit_selector.aspx?selectorid=90

The discounts have already started! The players spec one is still £90 though, not that there is much point having a players spec shirt, if it hasn't been worn by a player.

 

[Stat Brother]

30 quid is more than enough for a shirt. I bet they cost no more than 8 quid at the factory gate.

Even that would be a rip off ( the shirt costs including material, shipping etc can't be more than a tenner ).

You chaps are way off the mark.
If they are £1 each, someones getting ripped off.

The quantity being produced, the speed they can be knock up in, the amount of time available, each shirt will be a few pence to make and export, esp the £60 ones.

I had 20 bespoke cycling caps made and flown over from Hong Kong cheaper than what you're quoting Westdene.

 

[Bold Seagull]

£70 to purchase a kit for a kid, but come Sunday morning when they play a match they have to play on a pitch that doesn't get cut, doesn't have any holes filled and is covered in dog s h i t.

Football eh!?

 

[Westdene Seagull]

You chaps are way off the mark.
If they are £1 each, someones getting ripped off.

The quantity being produced, the speed they can be knock up in, the amount of time available, each shirt will be a few pence to make and export, esp the £60 ones.

I had 20 bespoke cycling caps made and flown over from Hong Kong cheaper than what you're quoting Westdene.

I was being VERY conservative just to prevent the "you're talking a load of bull" type response.

I have a friend ( ex-Purchasing Director of BHS ) who now lives in India for six months buying stock for her shop in Ibiza. Each item costs pennies and she then sells them for around £20-£30 so I'm well aware of the cost of these types of goods when purchased from "overseas".

 

[drew]

For £90 and bearing in mine where England's first game is, I would expect the shirt to have a built in AC unit!!!!