Not content material with having simply three kits for the 2024-25 season, Premier League champions Manchester Metropolis have laid on a fourth jersey which simply so occurs to have been designed in collaboration with one of many membership’s most ardent movie star followers.
The particular version “Positively Metropolis” shirt was co-created by Noel Gallagher to mark the thirtieth anniversary of his band’s seminal debut album, “Positively Possibly,” and is particularly impressed by the album’s cowl artwork.
Launched in 1994, the “Positively Possibly” cowl featured the unique Oasis lineup lounging round at then-guitarist Paul “Bonehead” Arthurs’ home in Manchester.
The room is scattered with gadgets of non-public significance to the group together with portraits of Metropolis legend Rodney Marsh, George Finest and singer-songwriter Burt Bacharach — one in all Gallagher’s musical heroes.
The equipment launch coincides with the much-anticipated reunion of Britpop giants Oasis, which made headlines this summer time firstly for the band ending its 15-year hiatus after which for the server-crashing demand for tickets.
The Metropolis fourth shirt shares the identical color palette and washed-out tones of the “Positively Possibly” cowl, with the design deploying the sunshine straw yellow, cool greyish blues and chalky pinks of the file sleeve.
The “halo” across the membership crest additionally mirrors the big globe that hangs within the higher proper nook of the album artwork.
To assist launch the fourth equipment, Metropolis created a particular set after which had gamers Éderson, Mateo Kovacic, Jess Park and Kyle Walker be part of a guitar-wielding Pep Guardiola to faithfully re-create the “Positively Possibly” cowl.
It has been confirmed that Metropolis intend to put on the equipment for the primary time on Wednesday after they welcome Inter Milan to the Etihad Stadium within the Champions League, and it’ll then be sported in chosen European away video games.
Gallagher additionally helped design the accompanying clothes assortment, which features a tracksuit, bomber jacket, overshirt and coaching prime.
He mentioned: “I cherished Metropolis earlier than something, I used to be into Metropolis earlier than I used to be into music, I used to be into Metropolis earlier than I knew what music was.”
This is not the primary kit-centric collaboration between Gallagher and Metropolis both; he additionally produced the customized hand-written font that can be used for names and numbers on the shirts of the boys’s crew within the Champions League and home cup fixtures this season.
