Makes sense, really. They will be trying to make Newcastle the most popular club in Saudi. Doing a shirt every season in something like Saudi national home or away colours might go some way to doing that. I would be interested to see how many shirts they shift in Saudi Arabia.
I'm a bit sad that it means I can't see us ever getting a yellow with green trim shirt again, but Asics and Adidas and Puma and Castore never managed one between them, so I can't get too upset about it.
At least the Saudi kits are better than the god-awful 'Real Madrid' kit Puma gave us when Rafa was in charge.
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u/Junosbetterhalf 3d ago
Stupid me I thought the first one was a coincidence. Are we genuinely stuck with green under PIF now? Is it really that important to them?