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| Stadium to be renamed?October 17th, 2006
There’s a strong rumour doing the rounds that the naming rights to CoMS have been sold.
According to MCFC Supporters Trust “two separate reliable sources” have revealed that the naming rights to the stadium “had been sold for £3m a year to an old sponsor with the contract signed recently.”
One possibility is Eidos, whose co-founder Ian Livingstone is known to be an avid City fan. Livingstone is now product acquisition director at Eidos, and according to the McVittee newsletter was the person behind the 1999 shirt sponsorship deal.
The £3m a year price-tag does sound a bit high, though. The ten-year sponsorship deal for Leicester City’s Walkers Stadium was only worth a “seven figure sum” and according to this table at ESPN, naming rights for US stadiums typically go for much less than £3m a year.
It’s also unclear whether any sponsorship money would go to the club or Manchester City Council, or for how long the deal is supposed to be for. Just as a footnote - I went to school with Livingstone !
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| | | Posted 17/10/2006 09:40:39 | |
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| Timpblue (17/10/2006)
Just as a footnote - I went to school with Livingstone ! Good for you. Have a word and tell him to give us a few mill. 
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| | | Posted 17/10/2006 09:43:55 | |
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| I'd welcome Eidos back as a sponsor. always associtae their logo with City.
Not sure they can afford it though when you consider that Lara Croft was there only decent earner, and well, she's getting on now. Guys in research and development need to pull their finger out.
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| | | Posted 17/10/2006 09:44:00 | |
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| I thought we couldn't re-name as we didn't own the ground? So any re-naming wouldn't go to line our own pockets?
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| | | Posted 17/10/2006 09:46:53 | |
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| NoddytheBoltonBlue (17/10/2006)
I thought we couldn't re-name as we didn't own the ground? So any re-naming wouldn't go to line our own pockets?I think you could be right. The complexities of our deal with the council may mean we wouldn't see a penny.
you know, you know, if a feller named Monroe never fathered bluegrass
he would still be unrecognised as the grand wizard of speed metal
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| | | Posted 17/10/2006 10:05:15 | |
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| 3 million a season could mean that the rent is paid off quicker ?
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| | | Posted 17/10/2006 10:22:34 | |
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| Sooner City own the stadium the better. Cant be renting our whole life.
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| | | Posted 17/10/2006 11:51:30 | |
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| Dannys_studs (17/10/2006)
Sooner City own the stadium the better. Cant be renting our whole life.City couldn't afford to buy the stadium outright though. Half of the debt is to pay for the stadium. |
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| | | Posted 17/10/2006 14:11:09 | |
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| Mr Badger (17/10/2006)
NoddytheBoltonBlue (17/10/2006)
I thought we couldn't re-name as we didn't own the ground? So any re-naming wouldn't go to line our own pockets?I think you could be right. The complexities of our deal with the council may mean we wouldn't see a penny. Or have a say in what it actually gets named?
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| | | Posted 17/10/2006 14:13:45 | |
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| fatsquid (17/10/2006)
Mr Badger (17/10/2006)
NoddytheBoltonBlue (17/10/2006)
I thought we couldn't re-name as we didn't own the ground? So any re-naming wouldn't go to line our own pockets?I think you could be right. The complexities of our deal with the council may mean we wouldn't see a penny. Or have a say in what it actually gets named? If this deal is between the spnsor and the council, we won't have a say at all.
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