Manchester United signed a world-record £750 million (that’s $1,163,562,249) kit deal with Adidas a little over a year ago. The deal will kick in eight days from now, as the Red Devils will play the 2015-16 season with a new kit and a new kit provider. United’s 13-year partnership with Nike will soon end.
Below you’ll find an excerpt and link from the Daily Mail’s story on this today.
This weekend, thousands of seats bearing the famous Nike logo will be ripped out of Old Trafford.
They will be taken elsewhere and painstakingly repainted to ensure that come the start of the season it is the stripes of adidas rather than the swoosh which takes pride of place at the Theatre of Dreams.
Over at the club’s Megastore, behind the East Stand, the shutters will come down following a 60-per-cent-off sale on everything United.
By the way, you’ve probably already seen all the hypothetical new Man United kit pics posted on social media. These graphics, photos etc. are all page views and SEO gold, but none are official. Until August 1st, when the new shirt is officially revealed, we don’t know whether or not the Man United kit you’ve seen is actually the new one.
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