Anfield Watch
·23 November 2024
Anfield Watch
·23 November 2024
The announcement that Liverpool would be returning to Adidas as the supplier of their kits made serious waves when it was announced back in September.
Adidas are most closely associated with Liverpool kits in the minds of fans, creating a few of the most iconic kits in the club’s history.
The sea green away kits of the 90s and the Candy-sponsored ones of the 80s come to mind.
As a result, fans have spent months speculating on just exactly what Adidas will produce when they get their first chance at a Liverpool kit since 2012 next summer.
Footy Headlines have now found some new information regarding Adidas’s plans. The first is a confirmation that the home kit colour will be Adidas’s ‘Strawberry Red’.
Whilst it’s obviously not a shock that the kit will be red, the ‘Strawberry Red’ in question is a bright, eye-catching shade that is a touch brighter than has been seen recently from the Nike-supplied kits Liverpool have been donning.
Using this colour, Footy Headlines predict that the design of the kit will be very similar to the 2006-07 home shirt, with a white framing detail around the torso but without the large collar.
Separately, Footy Headlines are also reporting that the Adidas kit deal will be promoted under the tagline “Welcome Home”. With the two organisations having 17 years of work together - 1985-1996 and 2006-2012 - the tagline is highly fitting.
The deal itself is reportedly set to be worth more than £60m a year for the club, double the base rate Nike have been paying. It will provide Liverpool with one of the most lucrative kit deals the world has ever seen.
And with the club being in a big of a tough situation transfer-wise, with Mo Salah, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk all out of contract, newest signing Federico Chiesa seemingly already on his way out and a rumoured desire for a new left-back and centre-forward, the deal couldn’t have come at a better time.