da pinup bet: On Monday, Arsenal announced that from next season they will be returning to Adidas as their main kit sponsor, after 24 years.
da jogodeouro: The deal which is estimated to be worth £65 million, will start from the 2019/20 season and has been signed for five years.
It is rumoured that the deal is worth double of the club’s current deal with Puma which has been in place since 2014 and has been well received by the majority of Arsenal fans.
On social media, many have been sharing their best Arsenal kits from years gone by, while also speculating about what the first Adidas kit will look like next season.
These Gunners fans are a creative bunch and have even drawn up their own concept ideas for the new kit.
Take a look at a pick of the best ones so far.
Away Strip
It seems that many Arsenal fans want to see their team return to having yellow as their away kit.
This particular kit gives a subtle nod to the infamous ‘bruised banana’ away strip worn between 1991-1993.
Nod To The Invicibles
Sticking with nostalgia, these home and away strips tick all the boxes.
A home strip of red and white is simple but effective, whereas the gold away shirt will remind Gunners fans of the Invincible season and ‘that’ win over Man United at Old Trafford.
Arsenal United?
Alongside Nike, Adidas are one of the most popular kit sponsors in not only the Premier League but in world football.
So wherever Arsenal fans like it or not, there is a chance there could be crossover between their kits and their rivals.
This particular concept is very similar to Man United’s home kit from last season, especially with the buttoned up collar.
This fan would also want to see the Gunners return to the gold and blue for the away strip.
A nice touch and if Unai Emery’s were able to bring home some silverware this season, no one would begrudge them from wearing a Champions gold.
This would be this Twitter user’s third strip if he was in charge of the design and to be fair to him, it’s a nice effort.
Ultimately the third strip needs to be as far away from the previous two as possible, which this is.
Simple
You can guarantee that this will divide opinion, there will be those that believe ‘simple is better’ especially for a home strip.
However you can also bet there will a portion of Gunners fans that will lame it ‘boring’ and too similar to kits of old.
In our opinion there is nothing wrong with sticking with what you know.
Different Stripes
The majority of the kit concepts in this gallery have the infamous Adidas strips on the shoulders, but not this one.
You can probably bet your house on their being stripes on the shirt, but having them down the side is a stylish option.
Bit Of Everything
These three shirts tick a lot of boxes for Arsenal fans, the comforts of a standard home kit, a nod to nostalgia with the away and third strips.
The amount of detail these Gunners fans are going into is pretty impressive.
Collar?
When it was released Arsenal’s third kit divided opinion, not because of it’s turquoise colour or the boyband style reveal with Hector Bellerin at the forefront.
It was because of the collar, surely Adidas will opt for their classic stripes, rather than an ill fitting colllar?
Bruised Banana
With Unai Emery threatening to take the Gunners back to the glory days after an impressive start to the season, fans would be over the moon with the return of this classic kit.
A modern twist on the 1991-93 away kit would fly off the shelves for sure.
Arsenal Or England 1980s?
This shirt wouldn’t look out of place in a line-up of England national team’s kits from the 1980-90s.
What is going on with the sleeves?
Stripes Galore
Another concept that predicts that Arsenal will return to wearing yellow on their away trips next season.
We’re not really sure what is going on with the third strip, Real Madrid?
Third Kit?
The home and away kits are very similar to others in our gallery, but what is going on with the third strip?
It looks very similar to a recent Germany national team shirt, so I suppose Mesut Ozil and Shkodran Mustafi wouldn’t look out of place in it.