See ya later iPro

[Rammy]

Weirdly we've chosen to end our deal with iPro early, and the stadium will revert back to being called Pride Park. Only logical reason I can see would be that we have a more lucrative deal lined up.

http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/der...m-once-again/story-29915184-detail/story.html

 

[MJA]

Or iPro are sick of being associated with you...?

 

[Luke_1884]

Easiest 8 mill we've ever made.

Their drink tastes like shite too, possibly why our players have underperformed in the last few years.

 

[Rammy]

We won't have got that, as it was paid annually. Suppose it could also be that iPro maybe missed the payment this year. Seems they may be struggling a bit - purely basing that off one person on Twitter who has read their accounts on Companies House.

 

[Veggie Legs]

Did anyone work out what iPro do during their sponsorship period?

 

[Rammy]

Did anyone work out what iPro do during their sponsorship period?

Sell disgusting drinks that you can't buy in shops.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

Did anyone other than Sky actually call it anything other than Pride Park?

 

[Rammy]

Did anyone other than Sky actually call it anything other than Pride Park?

Yes. Forest fans called it the iPoo because they're incredibly mature.

 

[big mean bunny]

Easiest 8 mill we've ever made.

Their drink tastes like shite too, possibly why our players have underperformed in the last few years.

Was just about to ask what they actually do as couldn't be bothered to look it up, obviously not there target audience as had no idea it was a drink.

 

[blademan89]

Easiest 8 mill we've ever made.

Their drink tastes like shite too, possibly why our players have underperformed in the last few years.

Done you a lot of good hasn't it.

 

[Luke_1884]

Done you a lot of good hasn't it.

Yeah it has tbf. Plenty of clubs at this level been under embargo's shedding 20+ million a year without even spending money on transfers.
We've pissed plenty up the wall but shrewd deals like this are one of the main reasons why we can continue to do so.

Imagine if we don't fail FFP this year, our chairman will be a fucking genius.

 

[Madejski]

Wasn't it £700k a season? Which didn't seem like a lot with the money going around the league currently.

I remember someone at our club saying that they would want a lot more than £1m a year in order to think about a name change for the stadium.

 

[big mean bunny]

Wasn't it £700k a season? Which didn't seem like a lot with the money going around the league currently.

I remember someone at our club saying that they would want a lot more than £1m a year in order to think about a name change for the stadium.

No one would even care or notice though with you guys as it's hardly a historic ground.

 

[Madejski]

No one would even care or notice though with you guys as it's hardly a historic ground.

No Reading fans particularly care either. Just pointing out the deal that Derby got was hardly a money spinner - not worth it.

 

[big mean bunny]

Ah right, got ya. Keep thinking Mol might get changed with the new owners, although I still struggle to spell our fecking ground so if they called it Fosun stadium or something I'd probably be the only one who benefited in any way!

 

[Rammy]

No Reading fans particularly care either. Just pointing out the deal that Derby got was hardly a money spinner - not worth it.

Somehow it was a record stadium sponsorship for a Football League club though.

 

[HarvSFC]

Did anyone other than Sky actually call it anything other than Pride Park?

Yes.

 

[markwwfc1992]

Ah right, got ya. Keep thinking Mol might get changed with the new owners, although I still struggle to spell our fecking ground so if they called it Fosun stadium or something I'd probably be the only one who benefited in any way!

I'm going for the Money Shop Arena.

 

[JaseTheVillain]

I'm going for the Money Shop Arena.

Wonga Stadium

 

[Rammy]

Waterstones Arena

 

[Rammy]

So iPro or one of it's many companies at least have gone bust. As I suspected, a failed payment and the resulting insolvency notice led to the termination of the contract.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/09120434/filing-history