New Shirt Price

Quoted from mariner83

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Bad business model when you can sell another shirt??

Quoted from Stadium

Bad business model when you can sell another shirt??

England shirts used to be decent value compared to most clubs. I was shocked to see the new one cost £70.

Quoted from pen penfras

England shirts used to be decent value compared to most clubs. I was shocked to see the new one cost £70.

They used to have a bit of character when they were Umbro before we were consigned to endless Nike kits similar to all the other Nike international shirts.

Quoted from pen penfras

England shirts used to be decent value compared to most clubs. I was shocked to see the new one cost £70.

Took my lad, 7 years old, to get the England kit a few weeks back. Shirt, shorts and socks, plus his name on the back, set me back £115.

Absolutely bonkers. That’s so far beyond affordability for so many families in this country, it really is scandalous.

As others have posted, the price of football shirts is a failure which goes beyond the game itself but in this day and age, a model which exploits poor people to make products poor people can’t afford just isn’t cricket.

£70 for an England shirt. I'm sure when I was a youth I got a full kit for about £30, was the 80s mind. My mate gets his son all the new England kits from dhgate.com at about 15 quid a pop. It's knock off stuff from China but having seen them myself, I couldn't tell the difference between it and the official shirt.

I remember buying the 2004 red England shirt for £20 at JJB

Quoted from Poojah

Took my lad, 7 years old, to get the England kit a few weeks back. Shirt, shorts and socks, plus his name on the back, set me back £115.

Absolutely bonkers. That’s so far beyond affordability for so many families in this country, it really is scandalous.

As others have posted, the price of football shirts is a failure which goes beyond the game itself but in this day and age, a model which exploits poor people to make products poor people can’t afford just isn’t cricket.

Had this discussion with my missus earlier. What parents spend on stuff for their kids is bonkers. Expectations for parties and activities are sky high. It’s hard not to comply when you don’t want your kids to be left behind. But I worry that we’re producing a generation of entitled people, and making it even tougher on people who can’t afford it. The price of some things is emotional blackmail.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Had this discussion with my missus earlier. What parents spend on stuff for their kids is bonkers. Expectations for parties and activities are sky high. It’s hard not to comply when you don’t want your kids to be left behind. But I worry that we’re producing a generation of entitled people, and making it even tougher on people who can’t afford it. The price of some things is emotional blackmail.

Simple answer is, we are. I see it day in day out, similarly, parents similar to my age that were at the start of this are much the same.

The England shirt thing is odd, Umbro produced that really smart plain white shirt that looked like a polo shirt a few years back, they made a new, bespoke shirt for every player for every game to give them some sense of unique pride or whatever then sold them in the shops in souvenir boxes etc…they weren’t cheap but felt worth it. They changed their business model when they weren’t making enough cash and it seemed to lose the prestige.

Once upon a time England shirts, especially between say 2000 and 2010 were never more than say 20quid…Ashley’s empire helped out with that but now they’re ludicrously expensive.

The price of shirts on the whole is outrageous but as with most things related to football, it’s an exploitative nature sadly. I don’t blame GTFC, I don’t even blame the sodomist clubs, it’s a wider issue than simply a club charging too much…

Although, if anyone’s interested, Google Napoli…they’ve taken a very different route…

I tend to buy the training tops or polo shirts and did so for my lad.
Still showing support visually, but doesn’t become dated each year as noticeably.  
Recently, I bought quite a bit pre season from the sale. It was nice to put money into the club knowing it would be spent wisely and get a bargain 😀

In the end it's everyones choice if they pay silly money for something just because of the label or trend, and that includes football shirts. As said earlier you can't dismantle capitalism overenight, nor can you change us from being a must have it bunch of donkeys led by media, advertising and people who are famous for being famous into thinking this that or the other is a must have because someone else says it is.