New developments with Adidas as Rangers enter talks | OneFootball

It is understood Rangers have been in discussions with Adidas about becoming the Ibrox giant’s new kit supplier.

Reports developed yesterday that the club’s hierarchy have been negotiating with the German sports manufacturer but the main source of this story has now suggested that the talks didn’t go Rangers’ way and the club is likely to continue with Castore.

Footy Headlines broke the story on Monday that the club was in talks with Adidas, and some ITK sources suggested the same thing, that Rangers were to switch to the world-renowned sports brand at the end of the contract with Liverpool-based Castore.

However the same source behind the report have retracted the notion of Rangers’ making Adidas their new brand, without offering any major reason as to why.

Rangers fans have long-disliked Castore, their shirt launches not being the smoothest and many reports of technical problems with the garments, not to mention massive distribution issues.

Indeed many wondered why Rangers went with Castore, who had never at the time supplied football kits before, and were very much ‘small-time’ in terms of the field they were even in, which was premium sports clothing.

Whether there is anything in the Adidas reports time will tell, but we do suspect most fans would endorse the change to such a reputable brand.

The club has been mired in kit changes and ‘controversy’ since exiting the long-standing Umbro deal in 2013, switching to Puma that year, before the disastrous Hummel partnership of 2018-2020.

Since 2020 it’s been Castore, but most Rangers fans have had little good to say about their performance and would be positive about the contract expiring for good next year, which of course is when it would be up for renewal.

Whether it will be renewed time will tell.