29 Oct 2025 08:08:21
FOS update.
Deal will be announced very shortly, Oracle and Red Bull along with an airline are in the frame.
10 Nov 2025 09:03:24
Nearly two weeks on from your post RPD, any further update on the FOS.
14 Nov 2025 13:40:19
Bill, any mathematical benefit there was in waiting to find a FOS sponsor prepared to pay a substantial premium is gradually evaporating.
Like all fans it now makes zero sense to me. I guess I can only hope for a cunning plan.
14 Nov 2025 17:01:38
It's never made sense to me Tom, the revenue we have lost is nothing short of criminal.
Matt Law is now reporting there are no new updates on a FOS.
I don't know what the owners and commercial department are doing but they are not doing their job, losing us money and making us a laughing stock of the PL.
Cunning plan?, any plan would be something and don't get me started on the alleged SB project but I think like the sponser, that's also pie in the sky with these owners, more Glaziers.
15 Nov 2025 07:57:59
Tom, the deal is already agreed and as I previously posted will be announced shortly.
15 Nov 2025 08:21:52
These are the latest commercial income revenue figures as of 2023/24.
Revenue of £225m, up from £215m the previous season. Chelsea are streets ahead of the rest of the Premier League but second-lowest of the so-called Big Six partly due to no FOS sponsor, the new FOS sponsorship deal will add multi millions to these figures and close the gap to those above us.
Manchester City – £345m
Liverpool – £308m
Manchester United – £303m
Tottenham Hotspur – £255m
Chelsea – £225m
Arsenal – £218m
I have heard the new FOS sponsorship deal will be with Oracle and will be announced very soon.
15 Nov 2025 08:44:21
Hope you are correct RPD but it still comes back to the amount of money we have list over the last 2/3 seasons, let's hope the new deal is worth £100mil a year to make up for the lost revenue.
Also we are well into November therefore whatever we get this season will be pro-rata.
15 Nov 2025 12:11:15
Bill, if we end up with a “multi year deal at a premium” then we may well end up better off than not doing a deal.
My fear is that we will do a deal for this season only. I was told ages ago but didn’t believe it was true but some sponsors only want a one yer deal because of a potential sanction against the club.
I thought that was a rubbish rumour but who knows!
15 Nov 2025 17:55:41
Tom, the whole area of sponsorship in the premier league is going to be a mess come the end of the season due to betting companies no longer being allowed to sponsor teams which will of course drive prices down. It will be a scramble to pick up deals.
If I was investing in football sponsorship I would keep my ink dry and see how it all pans out so any deal we can pick up will be a good one for this season and then wait and see what happens going forward.
15 Nov 2025 20:23:20
RPD, you may well be right and obviously I don’t know the details of this supposed sponsorship deal with Oracle but it’s hard to believe the club have got what it wanted.
Also, if it’s a rest of season deal the maths about hanging on for a big pay day after qualifying for the Champions League and Club World Cup would no longer work.