Good Bye RVP!

This should have been tied up weeks ago. Who gives a fuck anymore whether he stays - I dont.Every season we have this pantomime which is why we never win anything. Do Man Utd or Chelsea ever have issues with players with one year left on their contract. Never. They either sign them up or get rid of them. Wenger should have given him a deadline (as he claimed to have done ie pre the Euros) or told him to piss off.

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Originally Posted by selassie

He's keeping his options open. I personally think he's waiting for Barca or Real to come calling. If he has a decent Euros one of those two will pick him up, I've no doubts about that. What I hope we are doing is making the necessary plans to replace him and strengthen weak areas of the team.

Make no mistake, we lose him and our attack is no better than Liverpool's. We absolutely cannot afford to have another summer like last year.

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Originally Posted by jelgoon

This should have been tied up weeks ago. Who gives a fuck anymore whether he stays - I dont.Every season we have this pantomime which is why we never win anything. Do Man Utd or Chelsea ever have issues with players with one year left on their contract. Never. They either sign them up or get rid of them. Wenger should have given him a deadline (as he claimed to have done ie pre the Euros) or told him to piss oeuf.

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Oui oui.

Nowt will happen until the Euros are over. Can't be arsed worrying about this for the time being.

Come this friday, fuck all things Arsenal tbh

All about the Euros

I'm past caring anymore.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...No-rush-on-RVP

Looks like he is definitely gone. I do not see why they would 'hold back' news that RVP is staying!

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Similarly I don't know how you hold back news of him going if another club is involved.

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Originally Posted by fakeyank

Looks like he is definitely gone. I do not see why they would 'hold back' news that RVP is staying!

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Well obviously they wouldn't but as Maccy says how could they hold back news if he were definitely going? It would leak out and be all over the papers.

IMO he's not made a decision yet although my feeling is he'll probably go. Personally I think we should keep him even if he doesn't sign a new contract. He was a major part of us qualifying for the CL and if he does so again then 2 years of CL money is worth almost as much money as we'd get for him, if not more.

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Similarly I don't know how you hold back news of him going if another club is involved.

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May be part of the deal of him going to another club is to keep mum about it till it finally comes out. Arsenal fans are looking for ANY positives and him resigning for us is a huge lift for the club and I do not see the 'ppl concerned' losing the opportunity to get some goodwill around the club.

If he hasnt made up his mind, he will very soon after the Euros and for the love of any living life, I hope we sign players that he will look around and say "I can win something with this lot".

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Originally Posted by fakeyank

May be part of the deal of him going to another club is to keep mum about it till it finally comes out. Arsenal fans are looking for ANY positives and him resigning for us is a huge lift for the club and I do not see the 'ppl concerned' losing the opportunity to get some goodwill around the club.

If he hasnt made up his mind, he will very soon after the Euros and for the love of any living life, I hope we sign players that he will look around and say "I can win something with this lot".

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I'd find that extremely unlikely; if we did that for RVP (ask another club to keep quiet), presumably we'd have done it for other players yet we always know in advance where our players go. I take Letters' view that he hasn't decided either way. It wouldn't make any sense for him to decide now if it's true it is dependant on who we sign (I imagine before pre-season training starts).

I find the whole thing odd though. Players are more likely to come if they know RVP will be here but obviously less so with that doubt there. If he only stays for players that arrive then he can't really love the club like he said after the WBA game. In a sense though, I am glad he will be an Arsenal player, if only by name, during the Euros.