Topic: New Kit thread

[MH41]

Been there done that

Lol, I'm all for this. Can remember it well.
I think every team should be made to register 3 kit colours (in our case Red for home, White for away, and yellow for 3rd kit) and not be allowed to deviate. Then we might get to see more of these combinations! 

I wonder why we just didn't go with yellow shorts and socks though? Possibly too similar to Watford?
Can also vaguely remember a few other strange kit combinations - white jersey+ red socks in a charity shield v Southampton? Red kit, but white socks v Birmingham in the 80s and Portsmouth in the 90s and possibly again under Benitez?
And don't forget our socks were actually half white in our world club championship year.

[Ghost Town]

Been there done that

Clearly a sock robber

[lamonti]

Lol, I'm all for this. Can remember it well.
I think every team should be made to register 3 kit colours (in our case Red for home, White for away, and yellow for 3rd kit) and not be allowed to deviate. Then we might get to see more of these combinations! 

I wonder why we just didn't go with yellow shorts and socks though? Possibly too similar to Watford?
Can also vaguely remember a few other strange kit combinations - white jersey+ red socks in a charity shield v Southampton? Red kit, but white socks v Birmingham in the 80s and Portsmouth in the 90s and possibly again under Benitez?
And don't forget our socks were actually half white in our world club championship year.

White socks versus Pompey early in the FA Cup run in 2006. Unnerving.



I remember our grey change kit in 08/09 being paired with red shorts and socks for Robbie Keane's only real high point of his bizarre Liverpool career. Still find it mad that he actually played for us for 4 months.



Played in black change kit with gold/flesh coloured shorts and socks at Old Trafford, took the lead early with a Torres header but lost eventually. It was a BRUTAL combination of colours.

[Crosby Nick]

If we’re going on dodgy kit combinations, we played Sunderland away in the League Cup, think it was 95/96. We had too much white in that green and white half shirt to be able to wear it, so dug up the gold kit from a season or two before. But we normally wore that with black shorts which also clashed with Sunderland so paired the gold top with green shirts. Looked…lovely.

Think Fowler scored with a lob and then either he or McManaman got sent off (but might be misremembering that last bit!).

[MH41]

If we’re going on dodgy kit combinations, we played Sunderland away in the League Cup, think it was 95/96. We had too much white in that green and white half shirt to be able to wear it, so dug up the gold kit from a season or two before. But we normally wore that with black shorts which also clashed with Sunderland so paired the gold top with green shirts. Looked…lovely.

Think Fowler scored with a lob and then either he or McManaman got sent off (but might be misremembering that last bit!).

https://youtube.com/watch?v=j-wIcKGXFqE&si=T_Pl3xDSg_fKf0W9

Wow. Thanks for posting. Hadn't seen that before, so had to check out. It's very 'South african' or 'Australian', lol.

Shocking tackle from behind on John Barnes, that led to the Rob Jones dismissal.
It's actually a 2nd leg of a league cup tie. Can you imagine that now?

Edit - just remembered our Man Utd kit in a pre season friendly a few years ago. 

[Crosby Nick]

Their keeper Chamberlain had been in the bench for us in the final against Bolton a few months earlier I think.

[redgriffin73]

Strong beachball vibes as well, this kit combination.

[StevoHimself]

I really like this kit and had almost forgot the gold shorts and socks weren't the default choice. Torres looked great in it!

[rob1966]

ordered from that jjsport00 before never had a problem the tracker thing takes a while usually a week or so then when it arrives in this country it will update

Just had a players version of the purple kit delivered today for the lad for his birthday, ordered on the 2nd Sept. Looks good, got all the Nike labels on the inside. £17.50 so can't grumble.

I bought him a genuine green away for Christmas and the shits worn it about 3 times, so no way I'm paying £70 quid again for a shirt and I'm not paying £115 for the players version.

[77kop05]

It's criminal the way clubs can do this "stadium" and "player " thing with tops. The price they charge I'm sure even the player version at the stadium version price would make them a handsome profit.
Lucky enough to have access to a 30% discount so have the player home and got the stadium purple one . There is some contrast in the quality I think.
 Wearing the purple one feels like having a sweaty plastic bin bag on and absolutely horrible compared to the player type material, really made to a budget.
Makes you wonder if the next step will be  a summer and winter kit change the way things have moved the past few years. 

[Samie]

Most popular names on kits this season:

1) Dominik Szoboszlai
2) Mo Salah
3) Alexis Mac Allister
4) Trent Alexander-Arnold
5) Darwin Nunez
6) Luis Diaz
7) Alisson
8 ) Virgil Van Dijk
9) Cody Gakpo
10) Andy Robertson

[rob1966]

It's criminal the way clubs can do this "stadium" and "player " thing with tops. The price they charge I'm sure even the player version at the stadium version price would make them a handsome profit.
Lucky enough to have access to a 30% discount so have the player home and got the stadium purple one . There is some contrast in the quality I think.
 Wearing the purple one feels like having a sweaty plastic bin bag on and absolutely horrible compared to the player type material, really made to a budget.
Makes you wonder if the next step will be  a summer and winter kit change the way things have moved the past few years. 

I've had a look at the stadium versions in shops and thought fuck that, they feel cheap and nasty. Not seen a real player version but the ones we bought him feel really good.

[Mighty_Red]

As the LFC website sells the letters and numbers at a fixed price people are going for max numbers and letters by choosing Dom

Just bought my lad the green/white one in the sale last week and bought him membership to grab an extra 10% off. Now I have to find my 95/96 one...

[lamonti]

Strong beachball vibes as well, this kit combination.

Shudder

I really like this kit and had almost forgot the gold shorts and socks weren't the default choice. Torres looked great in it!

I've no idea where they dug up those gold/flesh shorts and socks? Were they part of a goalkeeper kit? It always had the feeling that they'd put a t-shirt on but forgotten to put their pants on like in a nightmare.


That whole season was a bit nightmarish, Rafa's time ending badly after Alonso left and Hicks and Gillette being credit crunched and running us into the dirt. But look at this gorgeous, sponsorless away we got beaten by Lyon in.

[Cafe De Paris]

Add black shorts to that sponsorless white away and you have a thing of beauty. Shame about the team though.

[Crosby Nick]

We drew with Lyon in that lively kit. Needed to win and Babel scored a screamer late on for what looked like a winner only for them to equalise in injury time, Lisandro Lopez I think.

[Samie]

Nike have finally put us in the A++ category alongside Barcelona and PSG. Means we will get priority template from now and not hand me down rejections. 

[Hazell]

For the Chelsea one, it looks like there should be an 'SH' instead of the 'A+ EL'?

[Brian Blessed]

Why the fuck are PSG A++, a hangover from Messi being there?

[JasonF]

Why the fuck are PSG A++, a hangover from Messi being there?

Probably that. I know my 10 year old nephew had a Neymar top a few years back. And their Jordan link up is quite popular with some demographics. I think they're popular with neutrals because of Mbappe, Neymar, Messi and things like the Fifa games etc.

[Bobinhood]

Gotta say I really like this years red.

[Samie]

Apparently we are close to agreeing a new deal with NIKE. Now that we are A++ customers we should be getting more dough.

[bradders1011]

Why the fuck are PSG A++, a hangover from Messi being there?

Ever been to a five-a-side centre? Every pitch has a couple of Messi or Neymar shirts on. It's horrible to see.

[RedSince86]

Apparently we are close to agreeing a new deal with NIKE. Now that we are A++ customers we should be getting more dough.

We should be ditching that sell on % of merchandise and should be matching United or bettering their £90 million a year deal with Adidas.

We missed out on millions first season with Nike because of the Pandemic with retail stores shutdown and with the World economy with slow growth and high inflation right now doing a % of merchandise deal is risky, could miss out on millions.

We are A++ and getting a safer guaranteed money contract should be the priority.

[capt k]

has anyone mentioned the similarities between this years shirt and our famous 1965 one?
I ordered a 65 one.{our first FA cup, and my year of birth, so kinda significant to me} and when you look at it remove the sponsors,and alter the crest to the old shirt its almost Identical.. i love it
https://bargainfootballshirts.com/shop/liverpool-1965-fa-cup-final-shirt/

[De La Goal]

Probably that. I know my 10 year old nephew had a Neymar top a few years back. And their Jordan link up is quite popular with some demographics. I think they're popular with neutrals because of Mbappe, Neymar, Messi and things like the Fifa games etc.

Just taking Japan as an example, there are three PSG shops in Tokyo, plus others in Osaka. How many have Liverpool got? Plus, PSG have gone to Japan both this summer and last. It's a wealthy market of 120m people, who want the original kit, not knock-offs. And just like bands who tour there sell more albums, the same is true for sports kit.

Liverpool have tended to focus their pre-season shenanigans on SE Asia, where there are lots of Reds fans, but not so much discretional cash for a £60+ jersey. And also lots of garment factories turning out knock-off kits which make the club precisely nish.
 
The Asian pre-season tours aren't great preparation in the sporting sense. But the club may be missing a trick commercially.

[Elliemental]

Is anyone else having trouble buying a jersey from the club's official store online? I get logged in, select the away jersey that I want, proceed to check out and then the problems begin. It asks me to log in again, which I do. But it fails to recognise my password (which is input automatically as its stored in the browser). This has been happening for days now. :/

[Samie]

Next season's colours from our mate Fumler.

[CraigDS]

Home is defo having yellow socks.

[rossipersempre]

Next season's colours from our mate Fumler.

Finally, no garish vomit-inducing colours. Very tasteful, especially that third colourway.

[rossipersempre]

That whole season was a bit nightmarish, Rafa's time ending badly after Alonso left and Hicks and Gillette being credit crunched and running us into the dirt. But look at this gorgeous, sponsorless away we got beaten by Lyon in.

Does the French no-alcohol sponsor ban still stand?

That kit though ranks up there alongside Alisson's silver one-off, that night vs Barcelona.

[Samie]

Liverpool 24-25 Third Kit is set to feature an innovative Nike 'upside swoosh'

[@Footy_Headlines]

[Ghost Town]

What's so innovative about it?

[Samie]

The "swoosh" will be from bottom to top instead of left to right. It's marketing genius mate. 

[bradders1011]

What's so innovative about it?

It's a different direction to the iconic swoosh.

If it's not iconic, it's innovative.

[Ghost Town]

So it's erect? Well our football is pretty sexy, I'm not surprised the swoosh has reacted...

[4pool]

Looks like an upside down walking cane.

[Indomitable_Carp]

What's so innovative about it?

It'll cost you an extra £20

[StevoHimself]

Why the fuck are PSG A++, a hangover from Messi being there?

PSG shirts also very weirdly became the favourite of people who don't wear football shirts and those who apparently don't even follow the sport. Think the Jordan aspect probably played a part of it.

[Samie]

Next season's Home kit.