EMMANUEL Adebayor is ready to quit football - unless Arsenal win the title.

The Togo striker is so convinced the Gunners will go all the way this season, he has even bet his shirt on Arsene Wenger's side lifting the Premier League crown.

Adebayor, 23, told The Sun: 'If we don't win it, I will take my shirt off and call Arsene Wenger.

'I'll say 'Boss, I want to stop playing football' because I have a lot of ambition and part of my ambition is to win the title.'

'As a player if you don't have an ambition, I don't know why you are playing or what you stand for.

'I have a lot of dreams and ambitions with Arsenal and I know they will come true.'

Wenger will be hoping his star striker is only joking.

Unbeaten Arsenal are three points clear of champions Manchester United with a game in hand - a position not many thought possible after Thierry Henry's departure to Barcelona in the summer.

Without the French legend, most fans tipped the Gunners to struggle to even finish in the top four.

Yet, hotshot Adebayor says the Gunners have enjoyed proving people wrong.

And he admits the whole dressing room is already talking about repeating the 2004 'Invincibles' campaign when Arsenal went a whole league season unbeaten.

LAUGH

He said: 'Just a few months ago, at the beginning of the season, people said we are not even going to finish fourth in the league because Henry left.

'Now you see the same people on the TV say we are the favourites for the title and I just laugh.

'We have managed to convince them that what they thought at the beginning of the season was wrong.

'I am happy that people think we can win it but thinking is different from doing it - and I know we can do it.

'It will be very difficult because there are other teams like Chelsea, Man United and Liverpool who have all got good chances of winning the title.

'So we have to fight as we have done from the start of the season and then if we concentrate and listen to our great manager we are sure we can do it.' - Wire Services.