The new owners when they came in promised to improve revenue streams. Including increased sponsorship value. We will never be told how much the title sponsor has paid, but I can’t imagine The Investment Room has broken too many records. I’m a bit underwhelmed - it seems a bit lazy, an existing sponsor presumably asked to step up to title sponsor. Could they not look further afield? I know many had reservations about a betting company but the club would have earned a lot more going down that road you’d think. They might be happy with the deal and have earned well but I can’t help thinking an opportunity could have been missed here.
So, you don't know any of the facts, but you're prepared to make a statement on it anyway. Rolls eyes.
I’m a million times happier with that than a betting company. We don’t need thousands of people, including kids, walking around advertising gambling. Edit: I was wrong about loads of stuff in this relatively short post it turns out.
No. We want a company that makes money helping absentee landlords buy the stock of affordable housing in the area and stopping young people getting onto the property ladder.
A local company who’s essentially morally bankrupt, buying up property and driving prices up, pushing folk further down the housing chain and in the commercial world making properties too expensive for local small businesses and start ups? I don’t think they are any better than a betting company. And their logo will be all over the kids sized shirts - a gambling brand would not be printed on kids sized shirts.
Roll your eyes, that’s fine, though having (briefly) dealt with this company and seeing how they appear to operate, I have at least partly educated doubts that they have paid an amount to be title sponsor which would compare favourably to the deals that the majority of the rest of the teams in the championship will have. I’m not a fan of their business practice - they encourage folk to come in and hoover up housing and commercial property stocks and price out the local folk who want or need it - though if they’re happy to pay to sponsor I’m happy for the club to take it. I wasn’t one who had reservations about a betting company for moral reasons as some did, so I can’t have any about this company either. I maintain that they might have got a lot more money from other sources though.
The industry I work in means I deal with them (and many more companies like them) and I can confirm they are the ******* pits.
Unless we go down the Bacelona route and are "sponsored" by UNICEF, I think the club would struggle finding any business that is 100% ethical and would appease the entire fanbase. I can't name a shareholder-owned business that *isn't* looking out for profit above all else.
I'm guessing that wouldn't be the hardest threshold to cross given the club's previous sponsorship deals. Not sure which is worst a betting shop, pay day loan shark company, or a firm that helps drive up property prices to levels normal working folk can't afford just to make rich people even richer.
Kids shirts wouldn't have the betting company on them. I used to have the Tottenham shirt from the 94/95 season when they were sponsored by Holsten. The kids shirt didn't have Holsten on it. It was just bare apart from Umbro and the club crest woven into it and the badge.
Regardless of what they do, they will have paid the going rate. The club are hardly going to take the lowest offer - and to think they have, is quite offensive to the board. Regardless of what, our board are shrewd and successful business people.
What kind of money is the main sponsorship worth around 250 k a season or more ? I'd have preferred a car company or summat like coca cola or anything with a brand Ive heard of.
I'm sure the club would too but companies have to be willing to do it! With the exception of the vast number of clubs being sponsored by betting companies, im assuming not many other companies looking to sponsor outside of premier league see much value in kit advertising.
