NEW 09/10 Third Shirt Pictures – We look like Spurs for God’s sake 30 June, 2009

New pictures of our 2009/10 third shirts have been released – and they’re fucking hideous. I think I showed you an image of it before but there are new images released by the club if you follow that link.

It’s even worse than I first expected, the dark shorts make it actually look like a Spurs kit. I thought the last white shirt was bad but this is worse.

I’ve heard that the club shop was dead for the new away shirt release and it hasn’t sold well at all. I will admit to not minding the new away kit but this is a shirt I can’t image us playing in. I hope they find this even harder to shift at the club shop rather than last time when the white shirt became a top seller.

Just a quick update because I’ve just seen these images and I wanted to share them. Speak to you soon.

Dzeko & Melo are going nowhere, Bischoff is though 30 June, 2009

Hello from a surprisingly rainy Bournemouth. As London passes the 30℃ mark I’ve been sat inside watching the rain all day. A bit jealous but I guess we do get our fair share of sun down here.

Anyway, the top story in the Arsenal world today you’ll notice is not in my headline – and nor should it be. The Sun have printed a ridiculous story with the headline ‘Andrey is Shavin a laugh’. The article is only five lines long. Five lines of absolute shite:

ANDREY ARSHAVIN has stunned Arsenal by revealing he wants to play for Barcelona.

The Russian striker, 28, who joined the Gunners in a £16.9m deal five months ago, said: “If I have the chance to play for Barcelona, I’d be really happy.”

Wow. Just wow. I thought the Cesc stuff last week was ridiculous but this is something else. I was getting angry about the Fabregas rumours but this just makes me laugh. Using a complete bullshit quote completely out of context just to fill a gap in a newspaper. Now the story has spread and ‘Arshavin to Barca’ stories are all over the internet. It doesn’t deserve any of your time so lets just laugh and let it pass.

There’s some big news on the transfer front as two European stars announce they’re staying at their respective clubs. Dzeko has said he is 100% committed to Wolfsburg and is looking forward to the new season with them. That should mean that AC Milan will set about signing Adebayor as their 2nd target. This might get moving next week now so expect some action.

Felipe Melo has also decided to stay with his club signing a one year contract extension. No doubt this will mean an improved pay cheque for Melo but it also includes a buy-out clause. This new contract doesn’t necessarily mean an end to the transfer speculation; Fiorentina have set a price at which he can bought out so if any club decides to meet that then he can still be off.

Today, Amaury Bischoff has left Arsenal along with seven others. Arsenal Blogs around the world are today paying tribute to the great man and Arsenal Shorts has news of a support line set up by Vic Akers. Oh Amaury, we hardly knew you. Reports of Barcelona coming in for the midfielder were dismissed as ‘a practical joke’. Maybe he’ll go back in the wilderness to find his inner child, who knows? James Dunne, Rui Fonte, Abu Ogogo, Raul Rogers, Rene Steer, Vincent van den Berg and Anton Blackwood are all following Bischoff out the door at London Colney.

It’s not all sad though because Luke Ayling, Craig Eastmond, James Shea and Cedric Evina have all signed professional contracts with the club after last season’s Youth League and Cup double winning side.

It wasn’t a good night for Theo Walcott’s England U21′s last night as they lost 4-0 to Germany in the final. I went down the pub to watch it and we didn’t threaten enough. I think we had the more attacks but the Germans were much more clinical and sealed it with some good goals. Theo didn’t look very dangerous again up there on his own but Gibbs did a good job down the left.

So everyone is on summer holidays now. Cesc, Gibbs and Theo are all done serving their countries. Obviously they all played the maximum amount of games they could rather than getting knocked out early and getting a rest, but that’s just our luck.

What can you look forward to this week then? Erm I’m not sure, maybe the transfer of Adebayor might speed up and we can get the transfer ball rolling again.

Speak to you soon.