Good Bye RVP!

[Fist of Lehmann]

All you do is make sure the good players - the ones you want to keep - get the good pay. If the ones on lesser pay moan and leave, then presumably since they are not the good ones you wanted to keep, they can piss off.

It would be nice to think it would be that easy, but all the devils are likely to be in the details.

Most feel our wage bill is already too high. At the end of the season we will have contract re-negotiations and step-up clauses to service in addition.

Profits other than player trading are negligible.

So with all the money in our wage bill already committed we would need to free up cash to consider pay rises to the better players. Since paycuts are out of the question, this means sales, that's IF we can shift these high earning shitbags.

I'm not saying we shouldn't do it, I'm saying it's problematic. Still, I guess Gazidis has to do something to justify his 600k bonus.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Aguero and Balotelli have some ways to go to be considered in the same class as RvP. For all their money, City haven't managed to buy the best in any position.

The fact he compared them to Messi and Ronaldo is shocking in its self tbh.

[Niall_Quinn]

But would object to a swap deal if RVP had his heart set on leaving and one those players really wanted to play for us? I know I wouldn't. 12 months ago, RVP wasn't on anybody's hitlist. On the reverse, if you had heard we were in negotiations for either Aguero or Balotelli, I doubt you'd have made such a statement. They're both good strikers but RVP towers above everyone at the moment.

Wouldn't want Balotelli, what would be the point? The guy's a nutter. Augero, no problems there but he's a step down In class from what we already have. Like Cesc, if RvP goes we simply won't have the sort of resources required to replace him like for like.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Wouldn't want Balotelli, what would be the point? The guy's a nutter. Augero, no problems there but he's a step down In class from what we already have. Like Cesc, if RvP goes we simply won't have the sort of resources required to replace him like for like.

[Power n Glory]

Wouldn't want Balotelli, what would be the point? The guy's a nutter. Augero, no problems there but he's a step down In class from what we already have. Like Cesc, if RvP goes we simply won't have the sort of resources required to replace him like for like.

That's because he's been playing here at Arsenal for so long and we depend on him heavily. He won't play like this for another team because they are most likely to have more match winners on their squad. Unlike other top teams, we depend too heavily on our one individual star player.

[Niall_Quinn]

That's because he's been playing here at Arsenal for so long and we depend on him heavily. He won't play like this for another team because they are most likely to have more match winners on their squad. Unlike other top teams, we depend too heavily on our one individual star player.

Maybe true, but the guy has still stuck the ball in the back of the net 35 times this season. Only two other players can better than and we know who they are and what league they are playing in.

[Cripps_orig]

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RVP signs

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He's found a paper of which to post his goodbye message.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Why do all our dimwit captains become Sun columnists?

[Cripps_orig]

Beacuse the Sun is the best in the world at what they do