It’s not often we get to cover football kits at Sport Witness, but today is the day and while it’s good news for Aston Villa and Newcastle United, Everton may be a little worried.
Diario de Almería cover the situation at their local club today and stick the knife into shirt producers Castore, who they’re less than impressed with.
They say that the ‘nonsense’ around Almería’a kits under Castore have been non-stop, with stock problems in the first year, a basic training outfit costing €120 last year to the ‘pyjamas’ that the Spanish side have been given as a kit this season.
There’s also been nonsense of Castore selling the club’s second kit to the public before they had even publicly launched it.
The newspaper can’t fathom how there are still logistical problems for a team who, on paper, are part of an exclusive group for the brand.
Almería won’t be doing that but they’re in the final year of their agreement and are less than impressed by their treatment and the ‘basic pieces’ lacking personality for an ‘unjustifiable’ price that they’ve been given. That’s a sentiment Everton fans will be sharing after their home kit reveal this summer.
The newspaper are also less than impressed with the tribute kits they’ve been given, something which should worry Everton in their last year at Goodison Park. A recent kit which was supposed to refer to Unai Emery’s time at the club has left everyone a little bemused regarding its execution.
Rather than anything special, Almería feel they’ve been given a ‘mere catalogue disguised as exclusivity’ with an excuse that Castore are not one of the bigger brands.
It’s been a saga of disappointments for them and they can’t wait to get rid, as Aston Villa and Newcastle have already done.
