37 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

Being totally honest, it actually smells like the type of thing we'd spin to get the fans onside with us being sponsored by a betting company. 

Excellent point !!

1 hour ago, coombsie said:

I hadn't heard about the Paramount deal until this morning. I thought it was going to be (tight-fisted) Allianz. I can't honestly see why the FA consider Paramount to be true competitors of Sky Sports or TNT (BT) sounds like yet more anti-Chelsea rhetoric to me 🙄

I wonder if they even asked Sky/BT if they would be upset about it ?

I'd have insisted on some sort of proof either way rather than rely on some old fuddy duddy bureaucrat at the FA having "concerns" ... 

 

18 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

I wonder if they even asked Sky/BT if they would be upset about it ?

I'd have insisted on some sort of proof either way rather than rely on some old fuddy duddy bureaucrat at the FA having "concerns" ... 

 

Wasn't Paramount Inter's shirt sponsor? BT didn't seem to mind that being on the shirt in the CL final. 

8 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Wasn't Paramount Inter's shirt sponsor? BT didn't seem to mind that being on the shirt in the CL final. 

There you go then ... if they aren't going to object to it in the biggest club fixture of the season, why on earth would they be bothered about a team in 12th in the PL LOL.

I'd be really pushing back on this if I was Clearlake ... 

 

i had a bit of a gambling problem myself, it's hilarious that that's preferred over some broadcasting company that doesn't even broadcast sports

Gambling sponsors are banned in two years anyway aren't they? Might as well fleece them for as much money as we can until it comes into play.

It looks as though the Club, are just taking as much money as possible in the short term, in the hope that when the 1 year deal expires next year, we will be back in the Champions League and able to command the higher Advertising revenues. I hope this is not overly optimistic 🙄

1 hour ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Wasn't Paramount Inter's shirt sponsor? BT didn't seem to mind that being on the shirt in the CL final. 

I am not sure they had anything on their shirts, did they?

EDIT: You're rigtht, they did have this on their shirts for this final.

Edited June 19, 20233 yr by WhiteWall

Imagine it would've looked nice on a Chelsea shirt too:

it's actually one of the nicer sponsors visually imo 

54 minutes ago, azpi28 said:

it's actually one of the nicer sponsors visually imo 

Wait until you see what we'll end up with because of the premier league...:

5 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Wait until you see what we'll end up with because of the premier league...:

Hopefully not with that badge!!

This season we had 3 as a mobile phone network did this up set Sky and BT?

Don't see a tv channel as a problem 

Perhaps on the back of last seasons exploits this channel might have been more apt 

Although the tweet doesn’t say it the headline of this story is;

NHS England head urges football clubs to consider gambling ad impact

 

Does anyone complain about the " Sky Bet Championship"   ??

On 19/06/2023 at 11:34, RIP Mourinho said:

Gambling sponsors are banned in two years anyway aren't they? Might as well fleece them for as much money as we can until it comes into play.

I thought that in 2 years you can't have the betting logo on the front of the shirts, but it can go elsewhere eg on the sleeves ?

On 19/06/2023 at 10:54, Sexyfootball said:

I wonder if they even asked Sky/BT if they would be upset about it ?

I'd have insisted on some sort of proof either way rather than rely on some old fuddy duddy bureaucrat at the FA having "concerns" ... 

 

Well SKY run football these days , it'll be written into the sponsorship deal with the EPL I would imagine.

Not enough for them to f**k about with kick off days and times . But that's the price we pay for accepting their money ..

 

We've had betting partners over the years, William Hill , 1xbet, and Parimatch who pulled out when we were sanctioned. Add to that do we still have betting kiosks inside the stadium?

Although I wouldn't gamble because of the shirt sponsorship, they don't pay out good money if there wasn't s benefit to the betting company.

 

We won.

wasn't worth it anyway

degrades the club 

maybe we can make a deal with Gazprom

it was Boris Johnson who prevented a peace deal to be made anyway so should be alright 

or maybe 

or

Edited July 5, 20233 yr by azpi28

Good. Now we can chase a sponsor on a proper moral high ground!

Think it'll be Pornhub or something similar, myself. I don't trust the ownership to get anything right. 

On 02/07/2023 at 17:36, The Rising Sun said:

I thought that in 2 years you can't have the betting logo on the front of the shirts, but it can go elsewhere eg on the sleeves ?

You're right. Sleeve sponsorship only on match-day shirts. But no restrictions on training gear or ground advertising. So basically a token response.

I can see a last ditch move to Allianz🤔🤔🤔