Chelsea has today launched a new lifestyle collection in partnership with Nike. Most notably in this collection is the new training kit that's been released and will be worn ahead of Chelsea's match against Plymouth tomorrow.
A gold lion replaces the traditional badge for the first time to create a clean, contemporary look. The pre-match jersey, featuring a tonal blue stripe, will be worn by both the men’s and women’s teams for the remainder of the season.
The #CareFreeChelsea team wanted to give our opinions on the new training kit and get your thoughts on the collection in the comments section below.
Scott Clayton
I really like this. The simplified gold crested lion works perfectly with the choice of blues. After some outrageous training kits of the past few seasons, this is easily the best of the bunch. A simple kit with the right Chelsea colours and the fan base is happy.
I won't lie, I'm a little disappointed by the price when I went to purchase it. I wouldn't mind as much if it was a training kit for the season, but it's just for the last four months of the season, then we will have another new one. We have already had the black and yellow training gear and the Champions League ones this season. It's very hard to keep up with these things. Three football kits a season where we've not really even worn the third enough kit as it is.
This is my favourite top when compared to the three kits we have this season.
Kovacic scored a club-high eight goals in his last season at Inter before moving to Real Madrid in 2015. He's since only scored seven goals in the six and a half seasons since.
Fingers crossed, this training kit gives Romelu Lukaku and Mateo Kovacic them Inter Milan vibes before kicking off. If this is just a way of making us help our record signing start scoring more consistently then I'm okay with that.
Anita Abayomi
£55 on a training kit? Usually, I would laugh at the thought, but I may give in this time around.
The concept looks absolutely gorgeous. It's so simple yet so effective. The blend of the dark blues takes the cake for me. Not to mention that it looks like the colours of a certain Italian team from Serie A.
It is probably one of the best kits we have had in a while, and it's the training kit! It just proves how gorgeous this piece of art is and why I'd probably end up adding it to my decorated Chelsea jersey collection.
Daniel Childs
I am usually pretty harsh on Nike and Chelsea. Probably vindicated by the obscene price, supporters are asked to cough up for poorly thought out, quickly disposable designs that seem to value little about the history of Chelsea despite what the soulless PR taglines may try and tell you.
But given the silly home offering this year, this shirt is actually very nicely done. Though again, it reflects how misjudged kit designs are that this shirt could have been a very classy third choice over the actual one released last year.
Renuka Odedra
Although this is admittedly a nice training kit, why is it priced at £54.95? Most of Chelsea's first-team main kits are priced obscenely higher, but having a training kit over £50 boggles the mind. That used to be the price of kits not that long ago, and the money clubs now want for surplus kits aside from the main ones are ridiculous. It's nice, but when you look at that price tag, not so nice to make me want to get my wallet out and pay that much money for it.
What do you make of the new collection?
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