I hadn't seen them in real life yet, before running across them in a Nike store in Genoa today. I found the home version to be even more disturbing in real life - honestly, it looks like some counterfeit Temu product. Usually, I think they seem better irl, but this behemoth just goes too far.
Zig-zag may have caused more physical pain signals just by glaring at it, but this incoherent insult disappoints at least as much. Because at this point, it feels like we're just being mocked with this shit.
I passed on it and I rarely do, but I cannot in good conscience close my eyes and buy this anyway, in the same way I wouldn't be able to just close my eyes and take it from behind. Both would leave me feeling raped.
Ended up getting the away version instead, which is nothing spectacular either imo. Most of the reason it feels good is because it's such a relief next to that roadkill looking piece of shit home jersey. In my case, it also helps that it doesn't contain that ludicrous and unworthy sponsor logo.
Honestly, we've seen a streak of decent enough kits in the latter half of the 2010's, but ever since the new decade rolled around, we're getting mocked, dragged through $hit in zig-zag patterns and laughed at by international media pointing fingers and saying "haha look at that shit!" with a juvenile smile on their faces. What happened?
Is rubentus pulling strings again? This time bribing designers to, in the absence of their ability to beat us on the field, at least make us look like ass clowns via that route? Fucking jube cunts like "Oh, they got a second star? Let's come up with a design so filthy bad that it makes the badge look off-set from the center, ever so slightly annoying them every time they look at it! Ha!"
You just cannot come up with this shit. Literally, start up your design tool now and try it - you cannot come up with a more ridiculous proposal, that is flawed in as many ways as this one, all the way from the large parts down to the tiniest details.
Am sorry for the long rant, got kinda worked up about what I witnessed this afternoon.