This was the first Arsenal top my parents bought me back in 2004. I just had it plain with no sleeve badges. It probably got binned absolute years ago or something 
So got round to finally re-buying it just to have it again. This time got the gold sleeve badges and the king on the back 
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Interesting…..
we need some gold this season for it then
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Should be eze enough with the squad we’ve got.
See what I did there?
Navy and gold is a smart combination. Looks like we are getting 3 bangers again
It’s funny how when they showed our previous 2 gold kits that I thought the first looks much better with the Sega than the 02.
A sponsor really can change a kit
Sega looked absolutely banging on our kits, like JVC did. Wish we’d had that on the home kit too and not Dreamcast.
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Whats the first player the comes to your mind for the 15/16 away?
For me its Joel Campbell
Iwobi for me.
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Arteta. It was his last season.
That 15/16 one from Puma is one of my least favourite Arsenal kits. The squared-off design over the shoulders, the dirty yellow colour that was supposed to be gold and the diamonds.
Whereas the 01/03 one was pure class even before we won the title at Old Trafford in it. Mine has fallen apart and I keep meaning to get a new one put haven’t found any sites that have a long-sleeve one yet.
EDIT: Found one.
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Coquelin
If we’re going to wear our third kit more I imagine that means our official away kit will hardly get used. We always seem to have one kit that never gets used. It’s almost like we don’t need three and at least one is a cynical cash in every year.
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We used to make the away top from the previous season our 3rd top for the new season. I liked that idea.
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Having to keep a home kit for 2 seasons was always a good rule. Before clubs started finding ways around it.
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I was hoping (perhaps being a bit naive) that the new football regulator would look into this sort of thing. Clubs can need as many as three kits because of the different kit rules in different competitions, but with the advent of alternative colour shorts for each kit it does seem that just two kits would suffice.
Alternatively, as you and many others have suggested, repurpose last year’s away kit as the third option and keep home kits for two seasons. It would mean less money from adidas et al but I could live with all clubs having slightly smaller kit deals as a result.
The other problem is that old kits represent eras, we won two titles in that classic yellow/navy kit, three cup finals in the 92/94 home kit. Having the same kit for two or three seasons meant they were snapshots of a period of time, rather than representing one season’s success or disappointment (usually the latter for most teams).
I would hope they allocate their time to more important things than the amount of kits a club can have.
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Well, perhaps focusing on financial stability for clubs down the leagues or doing something about dodgy owners/practices would be a better use of resources than making sure clubs only have a certain number of kits.
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Shouldn’t there be capacity for both from a regulator tasked with making sure the sport is running in a healthy way for all stakeholders?
Probably, but when is any organization like this properly resourced? It’s quite reasonable to expect they can’t deal with every single possible issue simultaneously.
Either way, worrying about teams having too many kits is pointless and I’d say this isn’t really an issue more so an old man yells at cloud situation.
if it was such an issue, fans would stop buying them and clubs might not want to release more. We’re not talking about a monopoly selling an essential item.
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