{"id":529474,"date":"2023-10-01T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/?p=529474"},"modified":"2023-10-01T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T09:06:19","slug":"kieran-maguire-reveals-fan-fury-as-aston-villa-consider-ripping-up-4m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/kieran-maguire-reveals-fan-fury-as-aston-villa-consider-ripping-up-4m-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Kieran Maguire reveals fan fury as Aston Villa consider ripping up \u00a34m deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Aston Villa fans are being charged ‘premium prices’ by Castore for a kit that has failed to meet minimum standards.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is the view of finance expert Kieran Maguire, who spoke exclusively to Football Insider <\/strong>about Castore’s ‘poor track record’ as a kit manufacturer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Villa have reportedly faced complaints<\/a> this season from both the men’s and the women’s team about their kits weighing players down due to poor design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Premier League side partnered<\/a> with UK-based manufacturer Castore in a multi-year deal starting in the 2022\/23 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Football Insider <\/strong>exclusively revealed on Thursday (28 September) that Villa are looking for an exit route in their Castore agreement following complaints<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agreement between Villa and Castore is understood to be worth around \u00a34million per season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maguire explained that Castore have now faced complaints from a number of their customer clubs including Rangers, Newcastle United and Wolves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Football fans in the main are not very fussy when it comes to their football shirts<\/em>,” Maguire told Football Insider’s <\/strong>Sean Fisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They know that they’re going to effectively have a shelf life of one year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As long as the badge is there and the main colours are there, they’re not really looking for much else but are being charged premium prices.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Castore sadly have a poor track record when it comes to the quality of their products.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It has gone from Rangers to Newcastle and there were also issues with Wolves as well.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think fans have turned around and said \u2018we’re not happy and we are being taken for a ride\u2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They also expect better from the club that there will be a minimum standard expected which seems to have been ignored.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“To be fair, the Villa fan shirts aren\u2019t as impacted by this particular problem because you don’t tend to get sweaty in a football shirt on a Saturday afternoon, but it reflects very poorly on Castore.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The minimum you expect from an elite Athlete\u2019s performance kit is that it performs and they have failed to do that.<\/em>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other news, Multiple clubs set sights on Ollie Watkins after Aston Villa news confirmed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aston Villa fans are being charged ‘premium prices’ by Castore for a kit that has failed to meet minimum standards. That is the view of finance expert Kieran Maguire, who spoke exclusively to Football Insider about Castore’s ‘poor track record’ as a kit manufacturer. Villa have reportedly faced complaints this season from both the men’s …<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":446394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverart":"\"\"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","_grv_disable_ads":false,"grv_featured_categories":""},"categories":[5582,4,18923],"tags":[191],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529474"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529494,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529474\/revisions\/529494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.footballinsider247.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}