Red Bull Sheff Utd??

[Houso]

Whispers that it's Swindon

 

[The Crab]

So Red Bull sponsor 2 F1 teams, 4 or 5 football teams and any number of other "extreme" sporting events.
How have they made so much money just by selling a fizzy drink with caffeine in it?

That tastes like shite.

 

[TBW57]

Torquay's chairman needs a million or he'll have to give the club to a betting firm who loaned the club the million on the basis that if they didn't get it back by the end of January they would inherit the club. So the Gulls and Red Bull are made for each other. But then again Gosport Borough are about to announce a take over so maybe it'll be Red Bull Gosport instead. Or perhaps more likely, RB Nottingham Forest; they are up for sale as well and the current owner is so unpopular their scabby fans might actually welcome the purveyors of addictive fizzy pop.

 

[blackydog]

Mcabe has made some monumentally poor decisions, but surely thats a line in the sand that even he wouldn't cross.

Even if the line has £39M the other side of it?

 

[The Crab]

Even if the line has £39M the other side of it?

I guess everyone has their price.

 

[blackydog]

That tastes like shite.

And smells like petrol.

 

[blackydog]

I guess everyone has their price.

I seem to remember him saying that's how much the club owes him.

 

[blackydog]

How would this work with European football? I didn't think clubs with the same owner are allowed to play each other? So with 3 clubs in Europe all with a good chance of playing in Europe, surely it wouldn't be long before they drew each other?

Us in Europe? has the Anglo - Italian been resurrected?

 

[The Crab]

I seem to remember him saying that's how much the club owes him.

I'm sure I heard / read that too. Hard to imagine he'd do that, but as I've said above, everyone has their price.

 

[blackydog]

Anyway no, they can F*** right off with their shit tasting, petrol smelling concoction!!

 

[The Crab]

Us in Europe? has the Anglo - Italian been resurrected?

A spin-off from the Checkatrade Trophy. The winners get to play in a revamped Anglo Italian Cup

 

[The Crab]

Anyway no, they can F*** right off with their shit tasting, petrol smelling concoction!!

I know someone who is on Anti Depressants, they drink cans of the fucking stuff then wonder why the tablets aren't working!

 

[blackydog]

And the players will have to drive these.

 

[blackydog]

Or these

 

[The Crab]

In keeping with our current position in the league though, it wouldn't be Red Bull. More like that 20p a can shit they serve in Premier Shops. We'd have to be back in the Championship at least before we got Red Bull

 

[blackydog]

One here for if they buy the filth

 

[Blade56]

And the players will have to drive these.

that's how they make their money, those cans must cost a fortune

 

[Grecian2000]

It begs the, serious, question though. How far would you be prepared to see the club go for success?

We've got naming of the stands, match ball, match itself and sponsoring of the substitutions and "added time" already.
Where would you draw the line?

Naming of the ground, change of nickname change of name itself (because it might not be allowed now but if the money was right the FA would be letting them come in their mouth for sure) or have we gone as far as we should already?

 

[Superblades]

It begs the, serious, question though. How far would you be prepared to see the club go for success?

We've got naming of the stands, match ball, match itself and sponsoring of the substitutions and "added time" already.
Where would you draw the line?

Naming of the ground, change of nickname change of name itself (because it might not be allowed now but if the money was right the FA would be letting them come in their mouth for sure) or have we gone as far as we should already?

Gone to far already imo. Stands should be named after legends of the club imo. We don't do anywhere near enough in paying respect to players from the past who are legends of the club.

 

[Blade56]

It begs the, serious, question though. How far would you be prepared to see the club go for success?

We've got naming of the stands, match ball, match itself and sponsoring of the substitutions and "added time" already.
Where would you draw the line?

Naming of the ground, change of nickname change of name itself (because it might not be allowed now but if the money was right the FA would be letting them come in their mouth for sure) or have we gone as far as we should already?

We could be called the Cleethorpe Closet Door Bangers for the right price but we will still call us the Blades cause that's who we are.

 

[Grecian2000]

We could be called the Cleethorpe Closet Door Bangers for the right price but we will still call us the Blades cause that's who we are.

and I entirely agree with the sentiment BUT that wouldn't be "who we are" anymore.
We would, most of us I'm sure, continue to call us Blades as I still refer to the stands as Kop, South, Lane End and John Street. It's a generation or two down the line who would have the name thrust down their neck (and don't forget we've done this for the success so we've picked up new fans on the back of that ) and eventually our identity, as we know it, would be gone.

 

[Bladesman]

RB Leipzig and RB New York have no history to sell. The latter was more or less brand new. The former was a village team with at most a few dozen fans. No one complained about the takeover.

Salzburg is different - there they ran roughshod over the supporters.

I don't know about Brazil.

You can't name English teams after sponsors. It isn't allowed. It isn't in Germany either. They are called Rasenball.

Red Bull Brasil are a new club formed in 2007.

 

[Flatulent_Bob]

Long term strategy is to buy Leeds apparently, they've been on their radar for a while.
I can see it happening too, regardless of what they tell SKY at the moment.

 

[BushBlade]

It begs the, serious, question though. How far would you be prepared to see the club go for success?

We've got naming of the stands, match ball, match itself and sponsoring of the substitutions and "added time" already.
Where would you draw the line?

Naming of the ground, change of nickname change of name itself (because it might not be allowed now but if the money was right the FA would be letting them come in their mouth for sure) or have we gone as far as we should already?

I was going to post something similar. It's a good point, we all claim to want success and for the club 'to show ambition'. I read in the Paul Lambert interview that he'd been to Leipzig and their set up and facilities were first class.
If being RB Blades meant winning the premier league, the champions league, having players like Silva, Aguerro, Oezil, Sanchez, Hazard playing for us, would it be worth it?

 

[DifferentClass]

Red Bull Coventry?

Just remember if Jimmy Hill had had his way pretty much all teams would have a sponsored name by now!

 

[JohnDenver]

Anyway no, they can F*** right off with their shit tasting, petrol smelling concoction!!

On that note, how the frick has the Red Bull brand got so much money behind it that it can run sports teams and sponsor random bullshit events?

The only value of Red Bull is to stop drinkers falling asleep beyond their 6 pint limit. There's no way a billion dollar industry could grow out of such bilge....

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Red Bull Coventry?

Just remember if Jimmy Hill had had his way pretty much all teams would have a sponsored name by now!

Indeed. It was 1980 or thereabouts when he wanted to change their name to Coventry Talbot (or it might have been Talbot Coventry) in partnership with the now defunct car maker. It was booted out, so he did the next best thing and designed the kit wholly around their name:

At that time, sponsored kits were not allowed to be worn in televised games, so they had different kit for those. Basically a different design that was still a big 'T' on the front of the shirt. Wily old chin!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

That tastes like shite.

True but stick a double vodka in there and wheyhey

 

[Keen Blade]

Bruce , who is that girl in your avatar ? If she hasn't been Photoshopped , has she spilt some Redbull down her chest ? She is too distracting for chaps like me who are trying to concentrate on a serious forum

 

[Tyler Durden]

I was going to post something similar. It's a good point, we all claim to want success and for the club 'to show ambition'. I read in the Paul Lambert interview that he'd been to Leipzig and their set up and facilities were first class.
If being RB Blades meant winning the premier league, the champions league, having players like Silva, Aguerro, Oezil, Sanchez, Hazard playing for us, would it be worth it?

No, it wouldn't.

I haven't spent my entire life supporting United on the promise of success and prestige (good job really).
It's an identity, and a powerful one. Lose that and all the silverware in the world can never fill that void.