My team in Spain, Real Betis have been trying to get out of their contract with Kappa for a couple years now but they've have a contract where Kappa are allowed to match any offers from other brands and if they do they get an additional year to their deal. This runs to 2023 apparently. This summer both Hummel and Macron have made offers that Kappa have matched but now a 3rd offer has been made from another brand that is supposedly too high for Kappa to match.
Does speak volumes thou that Betis are so desperate to get out of the deal, and it's not just due to money. These ones are not great
Not sure it's down to Kappa that our kits are fashionably late, that's very much Villa tradition.