Morning all, it's fairly quiet now that the Wenger to Madrid stuff has calmed down.

We head into the final weekend of the season, a game against Stoke, and then we have the whole summer to look forward to.

Really the most interesting thing about this morning are the pictures of the new kit going around. As you can see to your left we have hunky Spaniard Cesc Fabregas modelling the latest Arsenal away kit. And to be perfectly honest it's ghastly.

'Midnight blue', it's called. Now, leaving aside midnight is usually black and not blue, Midnight Blue was the name of a particularly awful mid-80s RAAAWK song by former Foreigner lead singer Lou Gramm:

I remember what my father said.
He said: Son
life is simple
it's either cherry red or -
Midnight blue
oh
midnight blue
oh!

Now, it's quite clear that Lou Gramm's father had a severe mental illness, seeing life in only two colours, and this was translated into a song so dreadful that it made even Glass Tiger wince.

So this is where we are with the kit. The response the pictures last night on Twitter was quite mixed, some people liked it, especially the pinstripes (designed by Oswald Boateng I believe), but for me the main problem is the blueness of the kit.

My abiding memory of Arsenal in blue is Robbie Fowler scoring a hat-trick against us inside 4 minutes. What a great Sunday that was. Went down the pub, managed to get in at 3.55pm (this was in the days when pubs in Ireland were forced to close every Sunday between 2 and 4), sat at the bar, great view of the screen, pint beside me, and then Robbie Fowler scored the fastest hat-trick I've ever seen. It rather spoiled my day, I can tell you.

So you can stick your blue kit up your arse. Especially as everybody knows we never win anything in blue. If we fail to win a trophy next season there shall be no blame heaped upon Arsene Wenger from this little corner of the blogosphere. No. It will be all Nike's fault. I'm telling you.

Meanwhile the agent of Emmanuel Adebayor has spoken about his client's future, saying:

I do not know if the future of Emmanuel will be with Arsenal. The only certainty is that, at the end of the season, I will meet with Wenger to assess the situation. But it is premature to talk about these things.

So if it's premature why are you talking about it? Especially if you don't know his future. Don't these agents take Tarot card course these days? Pffff. I suspect Mr Courbis, for that is his name, is somebody we're going to hear rather a lot of in the coming weeks and months.

Also yesterday news that Eduardo underwent surgery on his ankle. Nothing major, just some running repairs and he's expected to be fully fit for pre-season training. 

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Not much else happening to be honest. We should probably hear something from Arsene Wenger today, there's usually an in-house interview on a Thursday before his press conference on a Friday. It will be interesting to see how that's handled because obviously when the press gang arrive on Friday it's going to be 'Real Madrid' + 'transfer budget' + 'Real Madrid' + 'When are you leaving?' + 'Real Madrid' + 'Real Madrid' + 'Real Madrid' and possibly some 'Real Madrid' thrown in.

That'll be fun! Right then, have a good day. Till tomorrow. 

I was told not so long ago it was blue. This is blue. And pretty horrible. So that probably makes it true - another thing to brighten up your week.

via Jimmy the Cuckoo and footballshirtculture.com

Good day to you all.

We'll begin with Adebayor whose agent has been talking. Obviously he hasn't been listening to the player because what he says is rather at odds with what Adebayor has been saying. Stephane Courbis says:

If this was a money problem, then he would have asked to leave. It is vital that Arsenal show their motivation to keep him. I know that Arsenal's political position is that they don't pay high salaries. Whatever they decide, the decision will be taken with respect.

When you compare that with what Adebayor said last week about money being the most important thing, his retirement and earning what Thierry Henry earns it's fairly obvious that Courbis is attempting some kind of damage limitation just in case a move doesn't happen this summer. That would leave the player facing fans who have been less than impressed with his behaviour, and that's putting it mildly. As for whatever happens happening with respect I'm told this whole saga was sparked by Adebayor's people making huge wage demands just after the season had ended.

What is it they say about respect being a two way street? So for Courbis to start bleating about that now when he and his ludicrous wage demands started the problem is a bit rich. No pun intended. No doubt there's more to come in what's proving to be as tedious a transfer story as we've ever experienced. Greedy player, greedy agent, that's about the size of it.

A Zenit St Petersburg official has called Arsene Wenger 'a cunning fox' with regard to Andrei Arshavin. Dennis Lakhter said:

In the morning he says Arshavin will play all the time at his club and during the day he says he doubts the capabilities of Andrei to play three games in a row at the highest level. But this is a tactic to fool the competition. He calls Andrei a Tsar and then tries to deny interest in the player.

Apparently Arsenal are the most active in trying to buy the player although there's definite interest from Barcelona too. Interesting, although the Mirror reports he flew into London to have talks with Chelsea. Given the Russian interest at Stamford Bridge I have to say I think that's his most likely destination.

The Cannon has a pic of the new away kit from some promotional poster. Have to say I really like the look of this and I suspect this might be on my shopping list. Can't say I'm too enamoured with the home kit though, the lack of white sleeves is wrong but sadly inevitable. When cunts like Nike give you a white away kit you know nothing is sacred.

Busy morning this morning. I have to see a man about a dog. And a cat. And three camels. And an anteater. Don't ask.

More tomorrow.