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The Premier League ball Nike released but never used and never will

Nike and the Premier League are parting ways at the end of the season.

Having supplied the official Premier League ball ever since the start of the 2000/01 campaign𓃲, the global sports brand are set to hand the reins over to Puma – w🎶ho will be in charge of creating the ball for the 2025/26 season and beyond.

Before standing down – however – Nike released a Premier League ball wh🍬ich we💮 will never see used.

The Premier League ball we will never see in action

To commemorate their final season, Nike turned back the clock and released a remake of the iconic Total 90 foo꧟tball – which the likes of Thierry Henry used in years gone by.

Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images
Photo by Clive Mason/Getty Images

The blue and white version of this ball is currently being used in the Premier League, but in that same announcement, Nike also revealed they had created a win♎ter version too, with yellow instea🌠d of white.

However, the winter period of this season has already been and gone, so with Puma set to take over from Nike – who could secure naming rights to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadiu✱m – this summer, we will never see it in action.

Puma could face complaints from Mikel Arteta

Puma are already in charge of making the ball ♏for the Carabao Cup, althou👍gh their efforts have been questioned by Mikel Arteta.

After Arsenal lost to Newcastle in the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final this season, Arteta criticised the Puma ball, saying: “We kicked a lot of balls over the bar, and it’s tricky that these balls fly a lot. It’s very different to a Premier League ball, and you have to adapt to that because it flies differentಌ. When you touch it the grip is very different as well, so you adapt to that.”

Unfortunately for the Spaniard, his Arsenal stars will have to get used to playing with a Puma ball on a weekly basis from the start of next seasonꦿ, wh𝐆ich could lead to further complaints.