GeordieT

Would be a PSR dream. Pure profit? Won’t happen.

Posted a couple of years ago about a company I work with being approached for the front of shirt sponsorship that ultimately went to Sela. They weren’t overly interested - and it felt rather scattergun, which I assumed was in part trying to benchmark interest to pass the requisite PL ‘fair value test’. Nevertheless they are being actively being courted now for the training [kit] sponsorship with a couple of preliminary meetings in early December. Don’t have the figure they are looking for, but it would suggest the club really are at a pretty nascent stage still. Interestingly unlike last time it’s not been led by what was a New York based agency but via the in-house commercial team. Which hopefully talks to an increase in the sophistication of the function.

Interesting to see what it does for the price of the ‘original’ shirt.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-land-stunning-seven-30635129 The figures quoted from Lee Ryder here seem unlikely. Monthly operating profit of £1.5m in what is otherwise a fairly bleak year for hospitality.

The language in the statement from the club is worrying. Hope he’s OK.

Manchester City, Aston Villa, Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest were the only clubs to vote against the proposed alterations according to the Athletic.

https://x.com/chariiebennett/status/1858069882891325592

Cup / away / women’s tickets was my perhaps misguided assumption, the ticketing platform is still pretty siloed - feels a stretch that they could apply credit elsewhere. Unless it’s just a discount code.

I know it’s been the case for sometime now in 3PM kickoffs, but painful today. Sections of the game where it felt like the football was sideshow to a sponsored silence.

One year contract extension triggered.

Surely he’s just making numbers up here? A quick google would suggest even accounting for inflation it would be comfortably the second most expensive sports stadium of all time?! Appreciate that raw materials etc have gone up significantly the last five years.

Shirt sold out already in all but the sizing extremities.

From Craig Hope. https://archive.ph/WpNi0

Clear as muck.

This will be awkward to reschedule. Wimbledon are due to play against Crewe next Tuesday, with an international break following the following week.

And another.

As this coming back up again: TY103239 purely the strip. The company, ’St James Land Ltd’ appear to have taken out £300k of financing provided by a Cheshire based property developer / investment company to purchase it. I’m surprised none of our fine local journalists have done any digging.

Spent yesterday evening in the Metro Centre.

Starts - if there was any doubt.

Curiosity got the better of me - so bought the title deed (TY103239). 4 St James Terrace, owned by ‘St James Land Ltd’ - only incorporated earlier this year, have a weird fairly narrow strip of land running parallel to the East Stand. Including all the steps to the left of the container. Oddly can’t see anything on the planning portal for development work, but assume something is going on in the building behind. The sign suggests quite some annoyance though!

Struggling to think of a better signing at CB - and therefore no chance this will come off…

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/transfer-window-latest-moves-t56xxqkw6