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Chelsea yet to comment or offer confirmation but it's understood Infinite Athlete are the company with a deal on the table to become the new front of shirt sponsor. https://t.co/EeAF52aIfn— Matt Law (@Matt_Law_DT) August 8, 2023 As we all know, Nintendo's main HQ is based in the Japanese city of Kyoto. The local team – Kyoto Sanga – joined the Japanese football league (J. League, for short) in 1995, and currently sits in the second tier. For a while now, the team has been sponsored by Nintendo, but you'd be forgiven for not realising this fact; for starters, it sponsors the rear of the shirt rather than front, and its name is spelt using Kanji. Image: Football Nation You look at what he did during the World Cup and you think 'really? Is that 121m euros?' but the answer is no - you didn't see the full picture. He is much more than that.
Chelsea agreed the WhaleFin deal before the Boehly-Clearlake takeover and the club’s latest owners are believed to be looking for the best companies and brands to align the club with, as well as the most lucrative contracts on offer. Incidentally, Biocore develops “analytics platforms that allow teams, federations and athletes to understand and prevent injuries”, which might also help improve our horrendous injury record of the last few years, in addition to adding some dollars to the bottom line. Allianz are amongst the companies competing to become Chelsea's main shirt sponsor, according to reports. The current sponsor is Three but the deal is set to expire at the end of the season.
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Both Chelsea and Three declined to comment on the matter, but it seems certain that the club will have a new company on the front of their shirts from next season. Tempus Ex Machina, with whom Chelsea signed a seven-year product partnership in April, acquired Biocore to form Infinite Management, whose partners include Silver Lake. Football Manager 2024 is the newest instalment of Sports Interactive's football management simulation game series, with the newest Football Manager title now available on PC, Mac, Xbox Series X|S, PS5, Mobile devices (through Netflix Games) and Nintendo Switch. FM24 includes a host of new upgrades and features that weren't in FM23, including truer motion football, improved set pieces, transfer battles, player milestones and much more. Chelsea were asked to remove the Three logo from their shirts, which proved impossible, and to take down or cover up their branding inside Stamford Bridge while the company’s corporate box was not used.
Tempus Ex, a sports technology firm who have largely worked with NFL and college football teams, were already partnered with Chelsea in a smaller capacity, including for improvements to our online and streaming matchday experience (i.e. Match Day X). Chelsea have announced that Hilton will become the club's official hotel partner. The news comes with uncertainty still surrounding who will be the west London side's shirt sponsor next season. Chelsea released a video on Thread that shows an old Nintendo Game Boy playing a soccer game featuring a lion.It ends with “it’s 90s stuff”. Infinite Athlete had been expected to be announced as the new sponsors before the international break but that time has been and passed already with nothing to report. The break has been seen as the perfect chance to complete talks. Microsoft's Xbox brand was, until very recently, the main shirt sponsor of the Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders, the company's local side. Given the close match between the brand colours of the two outfits, it was a good match. However, the main sponsor is now Zulily, an American e-commerce company. Atari Image: Footie HeadlinesCapcom's local team, Cerezo Osaka, also had video game sponsorship for a short time. The company behind Street Fighter and Resident Evil sponsored the club in the early years of its life, even taking the main sponsor placement on the front of the shirt for a time (it was eventually relegated to the rear of the jersey, supplanted by the brilliantly-named Nippon Ham). The loud pink of the club's colours really seems to compliment Capcom's bold yellow-and-blue logo, if you ask us. Sony Image: RMC Sport Footy Headlines is pretty certain that Nintendo will not become Chelsea’s sponsor.The video only hints at the fact that the new Chelsea kit 2023-2024 will take inspiration from the 90s, and in particular the 1997-1999 Home kit. Is the club about to announce a partnership with Nintendo, the legendary Japanese videogame company?No, absolutely not. Infinite Athlete are said to be in a position to fill in short-term as a primary sponsor before their branding is moved to a sleeve sponsor next season, leaving space for a long-term main partnership still. The expectation has been for a while that Infinite Athlete would be given the green light by the Premier League after a deal with Paramount Plus was stopped due to conflicts of interest with other broadcasters across the world.
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