New 2014-2015 kits

[cmsy27]

In spite of the anger over the horizontal stripes rather than vertical, the kit is expected to be a bestseller, not least because the novelty will be a great attraction to overseas fans. Many of them won't have the same sentimental or historical impediments to liking the change from vertical to sideways.

Sentimental or historical impediments?! What about plain aesthetic sense? Oversees fan or not, you'd be blind to think these ugly horizontal stripes are better than the vertical ones. I CANNOT believe they think this new 'design' will sell them more shirts! I'd never buy.

 

[Icarium]

Who are these "overseas" fans nike keeps talking about i don't know. I hate it more than ever, probably up there in the worst kits ever section.

 

[putogusiluz8]

The 90's called, they want their kits back.

 

[pacp_96]

Where did they get that information from. Just fuels the idea that it is only people who live in Barcelona that care about the traditions and history of the club and that people who come from other countries (like most here) don't care at all. Quite frankly that isn't fair.

 

[DonAK]

Never buying this. Hopefully this will contribute a lot to the socis kicking out Bart and co in the elections.

 

[pacp_96]

Posted a poll to see who will still buy the kit.

 

[Luftstalag14]

Why the horizontal stripes?
EXCLUSIVE: See Barcelona's new kits for the first time... and find out about the deal with Nike

Barcelona's new kits for next season are being created already. Nike has begun to manufacture the new strip with its controversial horizontal stripes, one of the most talked about kits in Barcelona history. The away kit, meanwhile, will be orange, but with the four red stripes of the senyera (Catalunya's flag) on the back. They will also keep the yellow senyera kit as a third option for the 2015-16 season.

The club is on the podium when it comes to the teams that sell the most shirts in the world, but they hope this new, different design will make them sell more shirts than Real Madrid and Manchester United, who sell 1.58 and 1.49 million each annually.

In recent seasons, Barcelona have been selling 1.1 million. In spite of the anger over the horizontal stripes rather than vertical, the kit is expected to be a bestseller, not least because the novelty will be a great attraction to overseas fans. Many of them won't have the same sentimental or historical impediments to liking the change from vertical to sideways.

While lifelong members have already reacted with great skepticism to the kit, fans from other countries have already declared they like it, and some Nike distributors have already noted the high demand generated by the new shirt.

Renegotiating with Nike
Nike's contract with Barcelona expires in 2018 but the club are negotiating with the US company to renew the deal, with Javier Faus, Barcelona's economic vice president, in charge. Barcelona have been with Nike since 1998, receiving €35million a year, far from the current figures that teams get for deals in the modern era. Manchester United are making €950m over 10 years from Adidas, while Real Madrid get €55m a season from the same brand. Barcelona want to significantly increase what they're being paid and aren't afraid to table the idea of moving to different manufacturers.

I bet they made up the whole thing about overseas fans liking the new design. There is no poll that I am aware of. And the new home jersey design was met with nothing but jeers and sneers on the Chinese Barca forums that I visited.

And a paltry 35m a year from Nike? @#$% you Nike!

 

[pacp_96]

I bet they made up the whole thing about overseas fans liking the new design. There is no poll that I am aware of. And the new home jersey design was met with nothing but jeers and sneers on the Chinese Barca forums that I visited.

And a paltry 35m a year from Nike? @#$% you Nike!

They should look at the poll on here. Over 80% won't be buying it.

 

[Faceless]

I bet they made up the whole thing about overseas fans liking the new design. There is no poll that I am aware of. And the new home jersey design was met with nothing but jeers and sneers on the Chinese Barca forums that I visited.

And a paltry 35m a year from Nike? @#$% you Nike!

I agree. The whole thing about overseas fans favoring the jersey is a lie. It's sad to see Nike treating the overseas audiences like this. Lucky for me the Nike jerseys went cheap and I bought all the old kits.

 

[KingMessi]

Honestly, even if we look past tradition (which we shouldn't), the shirt is poorly designed. There are far too many stripes and the actual location of the stripes seems off (i.e. they should be shifted up, the section of blue at the chest is too large). We're going to look like fucking QPR!

This looks better than that abomination up there:

And that's saying something because the above shirt is still fugly.

 

[Professor Chaos]

And that's saying something because the above shirt is still fugly.

This is fan made pic based on Sport's November leak. Shirts will look like few posts above for 100%. Same template from Nike for all tops teams this year again (Galatasaray leaked too, the same template).

 

[DonAK]

We should ditch Nike. I'm sure the likes of Adidas and Puma would be willing to pay up. Too bad we got an incompetent gang sitting there right now.

 

[Flavia]

Possible training kits:

Those are good. I'll get one, instead of that ugly kits.

 

[linetty]

The darker one is classy

 

[slvtn]

Not a fan. The away kit looks really poor. Orange with red stripes and probably unreadable blue lettering, again. Home design itself isn't so bad, it's just not suited for Barca. This years kit is hard to beat though. My solution:keep the design, just change the red with the blue from this years season, change the Qatar logo to silver/gold and use red shorts instead.