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My grey zip top and blue training shirt arrived today and the cazoo is diagonal.. #disappointed. Away kit is sick too. I really feared kappa being complete today and almost everything released so far kit wise and training has been awesome. Take it all back. If only the printing department could stick the sponsor on straight.

And this bad boy. Gone up in size though thanks to peoples suggestions. My away and 3rd top last year were L. After covid sitting at home I've gone XL... just in case.

I have. Ordered the grey training 1/4 zip and the blue training tshirt. Sweet. Plus 10% off as reported above.

I was wearing mine all day. Absolute gem of a shirt. The green black and red colours are excellent together. Anything we do in these colours will always be a cult classic now. My good luck charm now. Might be tempted to sell the luke 3rd now though... Seen them selling for 200nicker on beebay for some reason.

Noticed kappa are starting to release 20/21 kits now. Looking at the last couple it seems to point towards us having a similar template with the split at the neck and an individual pattern connected to the club or region. I quite like the style and the orange kit would work well with blue arms and claret cuffs... Wonder if we will get a white away kit this year too?

I cant believe that we have now been in lockdown for many weeks, with plenty of unplanned time on our hands to kill and for some reason we dont have various kit designs floating around for next season... Usually before April, we have already had lots of discussion around blue arms or not, yellow away kit or not, and the annual mention of Cadbury sponsoring the shirt... So far nothing - Shame on us. I need my usual diet of new kits and fancy designs to drool over please by you clever graphic designers, and a hintof a plan from Nuremburg that he knows of from his old pals thats wets our appetite for more

Cant wait for the 3rd kit. Also, the yellow pre match top looked wonderful in the club shop last night...real throw back to the old mita copiers yellow top from the early 90s.

I thought I saw a fair few fakes last night in the holte. Some really bright blue arms. Brighter than the ones in the shops and those around them. Any one know or seen fakes on offer anywhere??? I haven't seen or heard of any - but the colour difference in the two near each other was obvious. Night and day.

was just about to post this too... this is an absolute beaut! already ordered! love the shoulder design on the GK top too. simple with a nice twist.

loving this effort... always have muchos time for those hummel kits.

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oh dear god...

i can deal with the trauma of which size puma top to buy in the shop whilst i peruse. If its a Kappa shirt i cant even imagine i will even be in the club shop in the first place looking at those Bari efforts. Yes the recent Napoli & Tunisia shirts have been somewhere between ok & good, but those are the only kits seen from them that have been any good since Barcelona in the 90's.

The new Kappa Bari kits are not exactly inspiring if this is what we can expect...? Please let it be Puma! I couldnt bring myself to buy a Kappa shirt at 40+ years of age!

Can anyone mock the new nike vapour template up in a proper claret with blue shoulders and lines in a slightly different shade of blue so they are more visible than on the new england kit? Cant say i would be averse to that idea from the image in my head.. Having umbro create a newly updated version of the mitre copiers 1992 kit with the laces and yellow away kit would also be extremely cool for me personally - a celebration of the 1890 and early 1900's kits!

Wilshere next please. Grab him on loan...

Would love this to happen... http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2016/08/15/am-swansea-should-targets-aston-villas-micah-richards-as-william/?

One of my all time favourite Villa players!!! I will not now ever be changing my image on VillaTalk. RIP a truly great man!

Does anyone know what colour the text and numbers are on the back of the away kit? It scared me trying to order one today with name and nunnery on it when the image on the site showed it in white...!? Anyone else had one done as I didn't see any away tops with writing on at the boro game?

How excited am i ?!?!? I haven't been this excited about a signing since Paul Merson & Dean Saunders joined us!

He is more miserable than i ever imagined. After the middlesborough game, my young kids and i waited outside to have a photo with him by the car park gates, and whilst every other player was happy to oblige, talkative and nice... he looked as though i had just weed on his cat and cancelled christmas when he stood behind them... then to make it much worse... as i kneeled down to take it, he walked off before i did and went to his car with his face still looking like he had slept with a coat hanger upside down in it! Unexpectedly miserable. Put me off him abit to be honest, especially since i had seen him keep the ball for the second half like he refused to pass to anyone else, lose it and cost us two goals through doing too much!

Great read and amazing to start to understand the backgrounds of some of you on the site. Great write up, and very inspiring too. Im glad you enjoyed it, you have my jealousy! During it I think you mentioned that there was some literature shared on training, warm downs and the importance thereof, do you still have it and can you share this? I think it would be really interesting to share with my kids on this topic, and also then share any insights and suggestions with local kids teams i know to help spread the word. Perhaps it can be scanned or shared somehow online for us to use?

To be honest, the football manager game wages are not massively far from the truth given the info from footballers i know that are/were in the game, so you can work out what most people are on within a 5-10k bracket. Amavi is on nowhere near that sort of money being quoted above. I know this is probably not as correct as you would want it to be, but the following was a good read for a base guide on wages at VP. http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/510246/Revealed-Aston-Villa-player-wages For me, the relegation release clause should be higher than his normal value. Hopefully to increase income if they player does want to go. If we want to keep him and he is not setting the world alight then clubs wont pay it and he stays until someone does. If they decide to take the punt, the buying club makes their choice. Benteke was a prime example. Liverpool wanted him and we put a lightly increased value on his head. "you want him, you pay scenario". If the player has not performed then people wont meet this and the club may denote a new value that will seal the deal. This can be agreed by both parties outside of the written clause, as it was the club who put it in. IT is the players agent to agree to the ceiling that the club want though. Wages, player happiness, team ethic, manager plans and other players available on the market are all taken into account before it is decided to let him go cheaper than release clause values though.

Just out of interest on this, does this now mean that the new UA kit for 16/17 will carry more than one sponsor on it next year in the championship? Perhaps one on the back or arms as well as potentially shorts sponsors? Quickbooks will remain as this agreement continues but can anyone confirm any rumblings of multiple sponsors for AVFC in the Championship?

Would be great if delphino could give lmarsha some hints so that he can mock up something as close as possible. His comment before certainly lent itself to him having seen it (if not both). In all the cloudiness of us going down, a good strong UA kit mock up and thread conversation will keep me interested where nothing else might... The new badge looks much better too, and will hopefully be used in monochromatic style again on away kits in the future as that will look great in a 2D/one colour scheme on kits! UTV