Just few days after unveiling their new home strip for next season, it has been announced that Chelsea have dumped their shirt supplier, adidas.
Chelsea will stop using adidas kits after the 2016/17 season and are set to make a deal with rivals, Nike.
The London club are not happy with £30million they receive from adidas compared to the deals with the likes of Manchester United and Real Madrid with the same shirt sponsor.
Chelsea are parting company with adidas as their kit supplier six years early after becoming fed up with Manchester United receiving most of the attention and two-and-a-half times as much money.
The club according to Daily Mail is not happy with the way Adidas has concentrated on other big clubs.
Nike are reportedly preparing to meet Chelsea’s valuation of at least £50m in a year.
A deal with Japanese firm Uniqlo to complement the £40m-a-year shirt sponsorship with Yokohama, or Li Ning from football boom country China.
Chelsea earlier last week unveiled their next home kit. Like this season, the blue kit will have Yokohama Tyres at the front centre as a result of the £200million sponsorship deal.
The new adidas kit which has a v-neck was unveiled at the club’s Cobham training on Wednesday, May, 4.
Diego Costa and Gary Cahill is seen modelling the shirt in promotional photos while Eden Hazard and Ruben Loftus-Cheek wore the shirt during the unveiling on the club’s Facebook page.
Fans will get the first glimpse of the shirt when Chelsea host new Premier League champions Leicester City in the last game of this season.
The new design will cost £90 (N41, 220) even without name and number printing. The replica edition of the shirt will cost £55 (N25, 190), with child-sized versions available for £45 (20, 610).
NB: £1=463.
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