Main sponsor - Alpari

Gone bust due to the swiss financial whats-its-name yesterday

Confirmed

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XL first then Alpari, maybe we should get M an Utd to sponsor us!!!

Always smile wryly about XL going bust. Their office closed briefly but opened again soon after and is still there. A constructed bankruptcy.

My brother was wearing the XL away shirt when he was cremated.

Will we have a nice light blue patch again? That'll look good on the purple kit!

Hope they paid in advance....

For fupp sake does that mean we will now have to buy new shirts mid way through a season again like the last time this happen ? , Lets Hope they don't stick that horrible patch with the players number on it as that looked fupping awful !

I wonder who our new main sponsor will be now then !?!?

Tony P and I had a discussion about this by text earlier today.  We mooted over Dr Martins making a comeback, decided that they were still selling boots but were not rich enough.  I thought the Royal Family would be good as her Maj is a fan.  Tony's gonna ask her

Does Tony have an "in" with the family?
What do you think for a logo, Just HM on the front or an image of the crown?

What about Fairy Liquid?? You know, bubbles and all that...?

All right, I'll get me coat........

Anne Summers?

Arran H wrote: For fupp sake does that mean we will now have to buy new shirts mid way through a season again like the last time this happen ? , Lets Hope they don't stick that horrible patch with the players number on it as that looked fupping awful !

I wonder who our new main sponsor will be now then !?!?

I've seen a few similar type comments dude and this was my reaction:

1) you don't HAVE to buy a new kit when they come out

2) I buy my shirt for the west ham badge, the fact the sponsor is out of date doesn't matter in the least to me

3) we have, imho, improved our status as a club since the alpari deal, so maybe this will give us the opportunity to negotiate a BETTER deal with a bigger company for more money.

Club are talking to at least 3 new sponsors. these will be for next year though
I think there is a rule that shirt sponsors cannot be changed part way through the season

I wonder if we then have blank shirts from Sunday (Which would be good)?

Agree there Motty , would like to see the shirts with no sponsor , back to the good old days

Apparently the 'Bobby Moore Foundation" Has been mooted? You would have to get that shirt eh!

I don't understand why we don't just have Bobby Moore fund as our shirt sponsor , Then West ham could give the charity a % of the profits the club makes , Just think of how many people would buy the shirt if they knew that some of the money was going towards the charity !?!

Great sentimment but the sponsor pays us; its a money making exercise rather than giving money away.

The club has supported the B M F quite vocally (and probably the various sponsors). Brand promotion for charities is more financially rewarding than donations - in as such that it brings a bigger source of potenial donators.

Arran H wrote:I don't understand why we don't just have Bobby Moore fund as our shirt sponsor , Then West ham could give the charity a % of the profits the club makes , Just think of how many people would buy the shirt if they knew that some of the money was going towards the charity !?!

Nice idea but how would we replace the c£3m per year that Alpari were paying us? That is a player's wages gone

Tony P wrote:

Arran H wrote:I don't understand why we don't just have Bobby Moore fund as our shirt sponsor , Then West ham could give the charity a % of the profits the club makes , Just think of how many people would buy the shirt if they knew that some of the money was going towards the charity !?!

Nice idea but how would we replace the c£3m per year that Alpari were paying us? That is a player's wages gone

absolute peanuts compared to what man u get n sponsorship. lets hope we can start to get deals *approaching* what the bigger clubs can pull in now

Yep - we need to aim higher. What about HSBC? They have their World Headquarters at Canary Wharf and the origins of the bank lie in Hong Kong and Shanghai, areas of the Far East market that we should be looking to impact upon if we are to grow as a global brand. HSBC have sponsored the British Lions Rugby team and it is that level of exposure that we should be looking to hit if we are to move forward, not two-bob, low-exposure companies like Alpari and SBOBet.

Totally agree Dan the man

always wondered if certain parts of our history and films like GS hold us back.

alfiehammer wrote:always wondered if certain parts of our history and films like GS hold us back.

You may well be right there Alfie, it was a shit film and I wouldn't want to be associated with it!

Its up to our much vaunted leaders, especially the enobled one to move us up to the level where the likes of HSBC will be interested, the move to the Olympic stadium may help. The 'HSBC Arena' maybe?

If we're going to carry on with that purple third choice strip I reckon we should be talking to Cadburys - the pre-match line up yesterday looked like a row of animated Dairy Milk bars.