When did football shirts because THIS expensive?

viv_andersons_nana

viv_andersons_nana

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They’ve been very expensive for years of course, but I’ve just read that Liverpool’s new home shirt costs £80. Or you can buy the ‘match-issue’ shirts for £115(or £125 if you go though the Nike website).

F*ck me that’s twice the price I thought they were. £80! Are they all this expensive now? Who’s paying £80? How much are Boro’s? It’s about half that isn’t it.
 
Football shirts generally tend to be low quality items. Anything more than £30 is a rip off but becsuse of historical pricing we've because accustomed to it. £115 is scandalous.
 
Are "match issue" shirts noticeably higher quality? Because call me Mr cynical but I can't imagine longevity is top of the criteria when designing shirts that are going to be used once by players then given/thrown away.
 
festa5 said:
Are "match issue" shirts noticeably higher quality? Because call me Mr cynical but I can't imagine longevity is top of the criteria when designing shirts that are going to be used once by players then given/thrown away.
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TBF if you go into the Nike store on Oxford Street and have a feel of the player-issue shirts, you can tell straight away that they are a much, much higher quality than the cheap tat replicas sold to fans. They’re generally slightly heavier with much better finishings. Hold the two together and you’ll know instantly which is which.

Personally I think sports labels are sort of trying to nudge people towards buying the player-issue shirts by cutting the quality of the replicas while shortening the price gap between the two, which would presumably make a lot of people spend the extra £20 on a ‘proper’ football shirt.
 
£50 for a boro shirt does seem too bad in this context. I got an England shirt not too long ago that was about £80.

I’d love to know who is making the £ in this transaction. Doubt it is the workers.
 
This has cropped up a few times, I think the England shirt was the same. It's been taken from the US system where they have 3 different types of shirt. Replica is the cheapest and then there are 2 others, game and elite or something similar. There are noticeable differences in quality and fit. NFL ones have different sizing because some are meant to be worn with pads etc. It doesn't feel like such a rip-off in the US though because they keep the same shirt for years where ours last 1 season before it's out of date.

It's scandalous pricing but some people are daft enough to pay it. We had people scrabbling for a 20 year old re-release of a Boro shirt a few weeks ago.

This is why I am happy to buy a Chinese knock-off for a tenner. If someone is making a profit by shipping me a single full kit form China for a tenner than someone is doing very well off a £100+ shirt.
 
Nano said:
This has cropped up a few times, I think the England shirt was the same. It's been taken from the US system where they have 3 different types of shirt. Replica is the cheapest and then there are 2 others, game and elite or something similar. There are noticeable differences in quality and fit. NFL ones have different sizing because some are meant to be worn with pads etc. It doesn't feel like such a rip-off in the US though because they keep the same shirt for years where ours last 1 season before it's out of date.

It's scandalous pricing but some people are daft enough to pay it. We had people scrabbling for a 20 year old re-release of a Boro shirt a few weeks ago.

This is why I am happy to buy a Chinese knock-off for a tenner. If someone is making a profit by shipping me a single full kit form China for a tenner than someone is doing very well off a £100+ shirt.
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The problem with fake shirts is that the fake goods market in the far east is often under the control of organised crime and there's the usual links to people trafficking/slavery etc. Not that the big sports companies always practice ethical woking conditions overseas of course. Lots of people buy there kids the fake stuff, and it's understandable, but i'm not really comfortable with it (again, not that buying other stuff guarantees there's no exploitation involved, it's a minefield with clothes, food etc).. That's not a criticism by the way as you suggest the pricing of the genuine goods is scandalous.
 
wilkos_perm said:
The problem with fake shirts is that the fake goods market in the far east is often under the control of organised crime and there's the usual links to people trafficking/slavery etc. Not that the big sports companies always practice ethical woking conditions overseas of course. Lots of people buy there kids the fake stuff, and it's understandable, but i'm not really comfortable with it (again, not that buying other stuff guarantees there's no exploitation involved, it's a minefield with clothes, food etc).. That's not a criticism by the way as you suggest the pricing of the genuine goods is scandalous.
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Are you suggesting FIFA and UEFA aren't organised crime?
 
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