I’m am slightly amused by the fact we have a kit made for us of an old template kit! Give it 30 years and people will be loving the retro version of last few years efforts.
There’s a big difference between the original 1986 Hummel template and the template shirts of today: they made that template and it was used by half a dozen or so teams, all of whom were relatively big clubs. After that, they moved on to new designs and the template was abandoned.
The modern template kit scene is far more cynical: Nike and (particularly) Adidas now produce bespoke designs for a handful of their elite sides (Arsenal, Barcelona, Juventus, Real Madrid etc.) and everybody else gets a kit based on a template that is not only shared across dozens of professional teams, but is also sold directly to amateur football teams, often literally the same kit with the addition of a sponsor and badge. Sometimes this means they’re selling a kit for £60 that you could literally buy without club badge for about £15
at retail.
Compared to that, Hummel releasing a kit
for only us which is a throwback to that relatively-limited scope template doesn’t feel cynical or cheap to me; it feels like a genuine attempt at creating something
for the fans.