Photos of Chelsea’s house equipment for the 2024/25 season have been ‘leaked’ on-line and Blues followers are praying they’re pretend.
Mauricio Pochettino’s males have had one thing of a topsy-turvy marketing campaign to date. Glimpses of brilliance counsel progress has been made since final season, although they have been largely overshadowed by goalscoring ineptitude, poor outcomes and a plague of accidents.
As such, supporters want to the longer term, keen to seek out one thing to get enthusiastic about as tenth place Chelsea method their second-successive run-in preventing for a spot within the high half of the Premier League. But judging by the response on social media, the leaked photographs of subsequent season’s equipment do not encourage a lot enthusiasm.
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One fan likened the design, leaked on-line by Footy Headlines, to somebody “spilling a can of paint”, whereas one other joked it had been created by American soul singer Stevie Wonder, who’s famously blind.
“If this is real it’ll be the grimmest kit we’ve ever had and that’s saying something,” one other Chelsea supporter moaned. A second added: “That’s hideous,” whereas a 3rd fumed: “It’s vile. How long did Nike spent designing this? Five minutes?”
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The inventive blue and white wash impact is an attention-grabbing selection, as is the usage of an orange define across the membership badge, the Nike swoosh and on the collar. Chelsea have sometimes produced house kits containing splashes of crimson, on condition that there are two crimson footballs and two crimson roses of their crest, however shades of orange have by no means been seen earlier than on the house strip.
Orange has, nevertheless, been used intermittently on their secondary and tertiary kits. In the 2020/21 season, that they had a reddish-orange-striped third strip, and throughout the season earlier than their black third equipment had an orange collar. They additionally had an orange-infused gray away equipment between 1994 and 1996.
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The equipment design is, in fact, unconfirmed, however the prospect of a whacky-looking strip should not shock Chelsea followers given a number of the corkers Nike have produced for them in current season, most notably the jazzy, checked/zig-zag house shirt the membership wore throughout the 2021/22 season.