Red Bull

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Figures being quoted are impressive - supposed to be about 60m a season over 3 years but not clear what is sponsorship element and what relates to equity stake or whether that is separate.

[spaldy]

Think that Red Bull might be a factor in keeping Gray....if we do.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Agreed and also hanging on to Rutter

[Monaco_Totty]

Agreed and also hanging on to Rutter

Agree H👍
His Mum & Dad say he's happy with life in Leeds & feels settled.
I also see he took to Instagram today too.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Should be an exciting couple of months and looks like we have several Italian clubs looking at Gnonto and 4 or 5 looking at Summerville.

Happy days.

[WTF11]

So Red Bull will (supposedly), over the course of three seasons, pay about as much as the 49-ers Enterprises did to buy the club? And for that sum they get their name/logo on the shirt and.........? No stadium renaming, no involvement in the day-to-day footballing operations, no influence in the recruitment process, etc etc, quite a big sum for getting not much (I suspect Boxt were paying substantially less as previous shirt sponsor, and getting just about as much, supposedly). Perhaps Red Bull have turned over a new leaf and wish to be viewed as a philanthropic, charitable organisation, instead of the cynical, rapacious, devious and highly ambitious organisation we know about so far?

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and flies like a duck, it's probably a duck.

[Monaco_Totty]

Football merchandise gap for investors ?

Actually think some of the stuff offered at ER is tosh quality wise & think we're missing a trick potentially sponsorship wise.
The hotel i work in has several top brands tied up selling clobber in the boutique foyers with our own brand logo on some limited editions* bringing in a large welcome wedge.

Back in 2022 i noted the San Fransisco 49ers announced their current team partners Levi's® & United Airlines as the first brands to take advantage of the NFL's new International Home Marketing Areas (IHMA) programme & extended their sponsorship rights of the 49ers to Mexico & UK.

That NFL's IHMA initiative saw the 49ers as one of only six teams granted rights in multiple markets beyond their home.

Levi's global denim-brand began a relationship with FC St Pauli the German club eight years ago. Although the club has been only modestly successful it is widely recognised for its distinctive social culture with a massive cult fan following.

The Levi's brand were an official partner of Liverpool, a collaboration built on "shared community values" (they stated) in 2018.
https://sponsorship.org/esa-awards/l...liverpool-fc-2

Christian Weiss, 'lead' on the FC St. Pauli-Levi’s partnership speaking last year stated “Sponsorship depends on your values & for Levi’s FC St.Pauli is a manifestation of our values of diversity & equality".

Levi's are now quite heavy as sponsors of Womens football too in Europe.

So why not another possible hint of branding in red to be "invited-in" by the 49ers 🙂

https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/fc-st-pauli-levis/

[WTF11]

Football merchandise gap for investors ?

Actually think some of the stuff offered at ER is tosh quality wise & think we're missing a trick potentially sponsorship wise.
The hotel i work in has several top brands tied up selling clobber in the boutique foyers with our own brand logo on some limited editions* bringing in a large welcome wedge.

Back in 2022 i noted the San Fransisco 49ers announced their current team partners Levi's® & United Airlines as the first brands to take advantage of the NFL's new International Home Marketing Areas (IHMA) programme & extended their sponsorship rights of the 49ers to Mexico & UK.

That NFL's IHMA initiative saw the 49ers as one of only six teams granted rights in multiple markets beyond their home.

Levi's global denim-brand began a relationship with FC St Pauli the German club eight years ago. Although the club has been only modestly successful it is widely recognised for its distinctive social culture with a massive cult fan following.

The Levi's brand were an official partner of Liverpool, a collaboration built on "shared community values" (they stated) in 2018.
https://sponsorship.org/esa-awards/l...liverpool-fc-2

Christian Weiss, 'lead' on the FC St. Pauli-Levi’s partnership speaking last year stated “Sponsorship depends on your values & for Levi’s FC St.Pauli is a manifestation of our values of diversity & equality".

Levi's are now quite heavy as sponsors of Womens football too in Europe.

So why not another possible hint of branding in red to be "invited-in" by the 49ers 🙂

https://www.highsnobiety.com/p/fc-st-pauli-levis/

The need to ask that question shows how far some are prepared to go to generate revenue as opposed to respecting the club history, c'est ca.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Marathe has said all the right things so far and I am sure is well versed in the aborted clunking fist debacle.

He seems to have a fairly tight and sensible grip on things - the time to worry would be when the 49ers seek to exit for a substantial profit.

Doesn’t mean we should say no to all progress - if the world adopted that attitude to everything we’d all still be living in caves - oh wait …