Man United involved in more kit manufacturing controversy

Manchester United have agreed a mega-money deal with Adidas to manufacture their kits as of the 2015/16 season, but the bad blood between them and their current kit providers, Nike, has run for a long time, reports the Daily Mail.

Nike have been providing Manchester United kits and clothing for 13 years, but the American brand were unable to comply to the latest financial demands of the Red Devils. As a result, United began searching for new companies last January, and they invited representatives of Adidas, Puma and Warrior into their Carrington training camp.

Nike are understood to have been comfortable with the procedure, but not with the welcome which each company received. United had the centre circles of the Carrington pitches emblazoned with the logos and names of each manufacturer across the three days that they were holding meetings. Carrington was, and still currently is, a Nike sponsored facility, and so the American company was enraged by United’s unprofessional actions.

Nike viewed the debacle as unnecessary and provocative, and it has ensured that the two parties will eventually part company with bad tastes in their mouths. From a United perspective, however, the bad feeling should not last for too long, as the recruitment process worked with Adidas, and the Red Devils have now signed a £75 million a year deal with the German giants.