we should just kill the ****.
then rape him.
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we should just kill the ****.
then rape him.
Yeh, it's not as if wenger would try and get them to play together and put one of them in a different position to do that at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by BOBN
He has no history of doing that.
Definitely an addition.
Tbh, if RVP is sold, or doesn't stay on this season, then we don't need another striker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
He was special, in that he could lead the line, and play deep. He also had the "star" factor of doing something out of nothing.
What we have seen from Wenger over the past season, is a move away from marquee stars and ego's, to a more "boring" structured outfit. Arteta is the prime example. It's been more workmanlike.
If he is going to add to the squad, I see it more to do with creative midfield in mind, as I think we have two "goalscorers" up top in Poldo and Giroud....at least, that's what we hope from them.
Meh. I dunno.
Gonna be an interesting few months.
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What Wenger and the club say and actually do are completely seperate. After last years debacle I would have thought some folks would grown wiser.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeebus
Of course they want him to stay but he wants to go and there isn't a damn thing they can do about it. Giroud...what does he know. Also, why would the club slap a gag order on RVP if there was nothing to hide? They've been trying to keep this situation quiet for while and work out a way to fix it.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ners-next.htmlQuote:
IT started with a trickle and quickly became a stream.
Now the floodgates are wide open and Arsenal are up the creek without a paddle.
Robin van Persie’s announcement that he will not be signing a new contract has left Arsene Wenger and his daydreaming directors in a state of shock.
But the captain’s decision to join the Emirates exodus will come as no surprise to the long-suffering supporters who have witnessed the rapid decline of their team.
Was it really only eight years ago that Arsenal’s Invincibles won the Premier League without losing a single match?
That record-breaking title run should have heralded the dawn of a period of utter domination of domestic and European football.
Instead it proved to be the turning point in the fortunes of a once-great club who have been undone by a lack of ambition and a refusal to move with the times.
True, the team did go on to lift the FA Cup the following year in what was to prove captain Patrick Vieira’s final game for the club.
But the trophy cabinet has been bare ever since that penalty shootout victory over Manchester United way back in 2005.
And Vieira’s departure for Juventus signalled the beginning of a mass migration which has since included (very deep breath)... Robert Pires, Sol Campbell, Ashley Cole, Thierry Henry, Freddie Ljungberg, Jens Lehmann, Gilberto Silva, Emmanuel Adebayor, Kolo Toure, William Gallas, Gael Clichy, Cesc Fabregas, Emmanuel Eboue and Samir Nasri.
Now Footballer of the Year Van Persie wants to add his name to that illustrious list after carrying the team on the back of his 37 goals last season.
The skipper has quite simply run out of patience with Wenger’s worthy intentions and empty promises.
Every year the manager insists his promising young team is finally ready to challenge the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea and Man City for the title.
And every year they get further away from fulfilling those lofty ambitions.
Sure Arsenal have spent much of the money they have banked from the sale of all their superstars. But the replacements are always that little bit cheaper and never quite as good.
Alex Hleb for Vieira anyone? Eduardo for Henry or Arteta for Fabregas?
Wenger is at it again this time, spending £13million on Montpellier striker Olivier Giroud and a further £11m on Lukas Podolski.
But will either prove capable of filling the gaping hole left by Van Persie’s imminent departure? It seems unlikely.
Henry, Fabregas and Nasri all moved on because they could no longer see a time when they would win major trophies with Arsenal.
Van Persie, an 86th-minute sub in that 2005 FA Cup final, has reluctantly come to the same conclusion.
The Dutchman could not have given much more to the club during his eight years in an Arsenal shirt — yet all his best efforts have come to nothing.
And if Van Persie now feels this way, it is inevitable the next generation of Arsenal stars will soon start questioning their own prospects of silverware.
Theo Walcott, like Van Persie, is out of contract next year and has yet to agree a new deal.
He knows that European champions Chelsea are keen on him and who could really blame him for being tempted?
And what about Jack Wilshere, the most talented English player to burst on to the Premier League scene since Wayne Rooney?
Rooney was just 18 when he left Everton for Manchester United, since when he has won four League Championships, two League Cups and the Champions League.
Wilshere is still only 20 and has plenty of time on his side despite missing the whole of last season with a persistent ankle problem.
Yet how long will he be prepared to wait to win his first trophy with Arsenal?
Maybe Van Persie’s bombshell will be the wake-up call Arsenal need to rouse them from their slumbers.
Maybe Wenger will finally accept he has to pay top money if he wants to sign the likes of Eden Hazard, David Silva or Sergio Aguero.
And maybe Stan Kroenke and Ivan Gazidis will stop panicking about Financial Fair Play and realise the new TV deal will provide Arsenal with riches beyond their dreams.
Just don’t hold your breath.
Robin van Persie did that until he was blue in the face. And look where it got him.
Pretty much spot on
That is an incredibly lazy piece and it is criminal that people can actually make a living writing such pap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Shit, any of us could have wrote that. It's a lazy piece and it's all been said before.Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.
It's just regurgitated crap.
I still say, make Van Persie see out his contract even if he sits on the bench all of next season. We have to make a stand sometime. Same goes for Walcott and Song if they refuse to sign. The money from their sales isn't fully reinvested back into transfers of new players so I say make an example of Van Persie and his agent.
At 30 years old, sitting on the bench for a season, doesn't make you marketable after that does it?
Let him walk on a free - he can try to cause trouble but I don't think he can do any more damage to be honest.
If we fail to make an example of him, then we are well and truly a feeder club.
Like I said earlier - the only thing that I would consider is player swap deals on our terms.
I know Theo isn't everyones cup of tea but after RVP he's the go-to guy. His productivity compares favourably to other players in the league in his position. It's easy to say oh we can sell him because we have so and so to come in, but there's a reason why we stagnate and it's because we turn over the first team on a regular basis.