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| Kit update... on 14:22 - Aug 9 with 846 views | Boris_ |
Definitely something more sinister in it that the club are letting on.
I happen to own a printing and embroidery BUSINESS and the logo embellishment is about as easy as it gets if they are talking about the badge? It's just a woven badge stitched on.
If they are talking about the sponsor logo, it's a 60 second vinyl heat press job... if they send them to me, I'd be able to get about 5000 a day done for them. I give good price. 
I would suggest the real issue lies with this mystery sponsor. Perhaps it's all falling through and the club are reluctant to put a shirt on sale with a sponsor on the front that they might have to remove in the coming weeks... [Post edited 9 Aug 2019 14:24]
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| Kit update... on 14:37 - Aug 9 with 822 views | saint22 |
Brilliant drop the commercials team a line!
TBH this is so poor for a PL outfit how on earth??? | | | |
| Kit update... on 14:43 - Aug 9 with 804 views | Boris_ |
I don't believe for one minute that it's due to logo embellishment. The sponsors logo's are fixed to the shirts in exactly the same way that the names and numbers are put on the back... they could do them themselves with the heat presses they have in the club shop! | |
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| Kit update... on 14:52 - Aug 9 with 788 views | Kennington |
As I’ve said before, the timeline for a new kit should be.
April -Aug - Agree the design with kit provider. If kit provider has under 2 years left, then hurry up and sort a new deal. Sort out as well the exact order volumes, and distributor agreements.
Sept - Nov - By now next season’s shirt sponsors should be nailed down. Send the design files to the kit manufacturer of the logos.
Dec - Jan - Approve samples
Feb - March - Await shipment
April - Receive shipment
May - Don’t arse around and just start selling the kit, as the all inclusive crew need something to wear at the buffet.
June - Sit back and have a break
And repeat every year. The above has plenty of room for the odd delay too, it’s really not hard. The problem comes from the rank amateurishness of many at the club. Just look at how efficient the bigger clubs are at this corporate stuff. | |
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| Kit update... on 15:18 - Aug 9 with 741 views | DorsetIan |
As someone who works in this world, Is that actually a process name used in the industry 'the logo embellishments process", or is the club using made up technical language?
And if it is an actual process what does it entail and what possibly could be the "issues encountered" which they are working so hard to find a solution to? | |
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| Kit update... on 15:28 - Aug 9 with 726 views | Boris_ |
If they are talking about the sponsors logo, then it's the most simple method possible. You order a bunch of vinyl logo's which you can get anywhere, then just put it on the shirt and pull the heat press down for 60 seconds and voila - it's done.
There really isn't any problem they could encounter. You could buy a £100 heat press off ebay and do them yourself.
I guess the 'solution' they are searching for is whether to put that tinpot LD Sports on the front when it appears their website isn't ready.
If they can't build a website, perhaps they can't pay their invoices as well? It would make sense if LD Sports haven't paid their final invoice for sponsorship this year, the club are witholding releasing merchandise with their logo on - they could remove LD from the team shirts, but once the fans merchandise is sold then they have their promotion and there's no reclaiming it.
That's just me speculating as someone who has companies in both printing and sports sponsorship of course, before the clubs lawyers try and sue me.  | |
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| Kit update... on 16:11 - Aug 9 with 684 views | saint22 |
Surely the process they are saying that has caused the delay here is essentially the same process the students employed in the megastore use to apply names and numbers to shirts no?
So if that can do it how can it be an issue | | | |
| Kit update... on 16:27 - Aug 9 with 663 views | SonicBoom |
Seems more likely the sponsor issue although the kit the players and staff have all have the logo on at present.
It's seemed a weird deal from day 1. Has a club ever been sponsored by a company that isn't actually trading and generating revenue? It might all be perfectly fine but this company is committing to in excess of 7 million a year so they are going to have to start earning soon or have an extremely healthy advertising budget.
You'd have to say that the deal must be fine. It is almost unthinkable that a premier league club would make a misjudgement of this magnitude. Isn't it? | | | |
| Kit update... on 16:48 - Aug 9 with 647 views | DorsetIan |
Thank you. It does all seem rather weird and that phrase they used "the logo embellishments process" sounded like something made up to make it all sound very difficult and technical.
But what you say about the payments doesn't really wash either because if Gao controls 80% of the club and we are assuming that he also controls 'LD Sports' I am not at all convinced that any money was ever going to change hands anyway. I know some on here thing that LD Sports is being used a way of getting £ out of China but I'm not sure it's that difficult to do that (going by the amount of Chinese investment in the London property market) so I would guess that it's more likely that LDSports is hoping to leverage off the back of the Southampton sponsorship to generate the funds to make the payments. Otherwise someone (Gao?) is going to have to be funding LDSports upfront and that would be a pretty speculative enterprise.
Maybe there is some regulatory issue in relation this sponsorship which we're not being told about? | |
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| Kit update... on 16:53 - Aug 9 with 635 views | DorsetIan |
It's pretty unthinkable that a Premier League club hasn't got its shirts ready by the first game of the season. It must already have cost them ten of thousands in lost sales.
Here's a theory. My guess is that there is no cash actually coming in from LDSports. Maybe the 'logo embellishment process' is usually funded by that cash? Hence the problem. | |
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| Kit update... on 17:06 - Aug 9 with 615 views | Occasional_Showers |
Are you getting RomseySaint printed on the back of yours? | |
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| Kit update... on 17:16 - Aug 9 with 598 views | City_boy |
What a load of rubbish, this just doesn't stack up.
Why would they put the 3rd kit on sale first ? Surely you would sort issue out with the hime kit first ?
Perhaps they expect to sell 1000's of the 3rd kit ?
My guess is that the sponsorship deal is different for the 3rd kit, which is preventing this. | | | |
| Kit update... on 17:17 - Aug 9 with 598 views | DorsetIan |
Is Romsey in Dorset? | |
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| Kit update... on 17:26 - Aug 9 with 582 views | Boris_ |
I would charge around 50p + vat to put the logos on the front of the shirt and still make a decent markup.. it’s literally the most simple process there is when it comes to garment embellishment. | |
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| Kit update... on 17:29 - Aug 9 with 580 views | DorsetIan |
So much for that theory then...(unless the club is really strapped for cash!)
Cheers. | |
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| Kit update... on 17:32 - Aug 9 with 577 views | chasaint80 |
My long shot theory is it's part of the fyre festival kit release campaign and they're giving the impression it's gone to shitt but really they're going to hand out free tops to everyone at the liverpool game. If it was a sponsorship or printing problem why are they selling the 3rd kit with it on ? [Post edited 9 Aug 2019 18:26]
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| Kit update... on 17:34 - Aug 9 with 571 views | Sadoldgit |
Or it could just be a technical hitch, as they say, but then conspiracy theories are so much more fun! | | | |
| Kit update... on 17:35 - Aug 9 with 566 views | DorsetIan |
There must come a point when the whole idea of creative marketing disappears up its own @rse - maybe you are right and this is it. I hope they get mine in the right size. | |
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| Kit update... on 21:04 - Aug 9 with 416 views | Ron11 |
Here's another theory.
They are totally fu cking incompetent. | | | |
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