RVP has opened contract talks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15479384.stm
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RVP has opened contract talks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/15479384.stm
Give the guy what he wants, WengerQuote:
Originally Posted by Ach
You know - this time, I think maybe they will, but I'd give you fair odds that RvP does not want just money (though his agent no doubt does) but also some decent players to add to the squad to make sure he gets something to put on the mantlepiece.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
Thats what i meant, if its players sign them, don't make promises we can't keep "again". What ever we can do to get him to stay we have to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Coney
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Originally Posted by Charlie the Gooner
He wants Messi and Ronaldo in and Chamakh out. Get on it Wenger.
Ronaldo :bow:Quote:
Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
Chamakh can stay though
As for Messi :haha: No thanks
Flash update, he's dropped his demands for Messi and Ronaldo but says Chamakh out is non-negotiable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ach
Where in that story does it say anything about him signing or negotiating a contract?? It says we haven't begun negotiating yet.
bbc journo who has very close links with arsenal has confirmed itQuote:
Originally Posted by server too busy!
If I was Wenger Id tell RVP the meaning of life to stay at Arsenal.
It says negotiations have opened.Quote:
Originally Posted by server too busy!
BBC changed the link :lol:
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger is confident club captain Robin van Persie will sign a new contract.
Van Persie, 28, has scored nine goals in 13 games for Arsenal this season and his current deal runs until July 2013.
The Gunners have not yet officially begun negotiations with Van Persie, the only current player to have won a trophy with Arsenal.
But Wenger told BBC Sport: "He has 18 months to go and I'm confident he'll sign a new deal. I'm always confident."
Arsenal will be keen to hold onto his talisman following the departures of key players Samir Nasri, Cesc Fabregas and Gael Clichy during the summer transfer window.
However, Wenger brought in midfield duo Yossi Benayoun and Mikel Arteta, while defender Per Mertesacker and forward Ju-Young Park were also added to his new-look side.
Doesn't say anything about anything. If this link has changed then surely that is as good as sign as any that things should be quoted from the article posted.
Another shocker from the BBC, in short.
rvp has been nominated for world player of the year. whether he will get through to final 3 or whatever it is is unclear but he has been the form striker of 2011 and it owuld be really funny to see the world of football praise RVP and joker still go on about how shit he is
RVP is a better striker than Steve Bould will ever be.
Nice to see him nominated but he won't get 3rd. (First 2 are obviously Messi and Ronaldo, so only 3rd is up for grabs tbh)
It will probably go to Xavi or Iniesta.
He's aiming for fourth. :good:
I see what you did there...
It could well be Messi, Xavi and Iniesta in the top three again. Given they won the Champions League, again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Wenger says he's confident he'll sign a new deal once again, why would you be confident with things as they are?
He's said he doesn't want to talk about a new contract, has called for us to sign quality players, has watched our best players leave and is approaching his 30's. Based on that you'd have to be a fool to be confident he'll sign, though he does say he's always confident which explains a lot.
He needs to pull his head out of the sand for once and do things which will convince him to stay rather than live in this pipedream he has.
He seems to just sit there doing nothing an expects things to just work out.
I blame the board. . . .. .Quote:
Originally Posted by GB.
NLP?Quote:
Originally Posted by ItsMe
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Originally Posted by ItsMe
My friend, its the board to blame really..
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...359929_rvp.jpg
This fey picure does not represent the fact that Robin van Persie has unlocked Bast Mode™ and Freak Mode™ and has not come out of them this year.
What a man :bow:.
It's just a matter of time before he signs now IMO.
It was easy for Nasri and Clichy to leave because they were shite towards the end.
Fabregas was shite as well tbf.
RVP :bow:.
Best Arsenal captain ever tbh.
£180 million Citeh bid coming in January.
Best out of the last 3 If this was cesc he would have put his head down and we'd have lost.Quote:
Originally Posted by Master Splinter
:bow: rvp
RVP 28 goals in 27 league games in 2011.
pretty shit eh joker? :haha:
Aye fuckin rotten. Should have sold him a couple of years ago when Juve were sniffing around. Bender would have scored 6 today lolQuote:
Originally Posted by ollie the optimist
Don't know what it is, but he seems genuinely fond of our club and proud to be captain - by contrast Cesc looked a bit contrived.
He knows how much the club have backed him whilst he was out for those long periods injured. He showed in those fit spells what he could do, although he did seem to show it in most of the big games, and we the fans were on his case for being brittle. Now we are seeing what he can do when he's in the ultimate condition. He has been carrying the team for most of the season and the media have not hesitated in highlighting this. Even us fans have been bleating about it too. But, in my view, that is what a captain is there for. To show that leadership to the others and get them through it. Yes he's scoring the majority of the goals, but that's what he gets paid for. No one says that about the likes of Rooney when he's on a rich streak of goal scoring. RvP has drageed the team through the mire and now the players around him are manning up and playing with him to create those chances. He led the celebrations at the ending calling the team down to the away end, a bit over the top as it was like we had just won a trophy, but it showed great team spirit. I reckon Cesc would have just applauded his way down the tunnel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ice Berg Kamping
I've always thought that, he's one of the few I've thought really cares about the club......I don't think that'll be enough to keep him at the club though, realistically a player of his talent will want some trophies at this stage and unless we show we can deliver and maybe show a bit of ambition it may be hard to hold onto him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ice Berg Kamping
Would be a real body blow to lose him if we did.
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Originally Posted by ItsMe
Don't see him staying on either unless we win something. CC would be a good start.. only a small obstacle on the way though- Man City
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Originally Posted by FakeYank
and rightly so, As much as it will be a blow too lose him like zimm said, he'd be 30 and without a medal so i think he'd want to go, but if we got a good deal for him say £25 mill won't be bad IF we spend it, IF NOT then we'd be screwed.
Give RVP want he wants tbh. Sign players if need be. RVP is not money orienated so we know if he left it would not be for the money.
Personally unilke Nasri id don't think he'd leave us high and dry, i think he'd sign a new deal just to cover us
Yes but not everyone is as Asian as you. He has some sense of loyalty beyond trophies and money - as so he should with Wenger and the club sticking by him through his injury problems for all these years...besides, at his age, he isn't as in-demand from the ultra top clubs as one might think. He is on fine form at the moment, but obviously he won't be averaging over one a game for long and he will have periods where he struggles.Quote:
Originally Posted by FakeYank
I think Cesc was always quite clever with the words he chose and we were always clear on the fact that some day he would go. Nasri is a different matter - he is still quite young, hadn't stayed at this club as long and, IMO, has a higher ceiling than even Van Persie. Van Persie is a proper gooner - just like Szczesny and Sir Jack. I'm very confident he'll stay.
:gp: agree, at least we won't see people putting shirts over his head etc. he has said he is commited to Arsenal and right now its good for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Syn
He ain't going nowhere.
Decide for yourselves if that was a deliberate double negative.
IF he leaves at the end of this season, how would he think he'd be regarded in Arsenal circles?
With contempt (a la Cole, Adebayor, Nasri), with affection (Henry, Vieira, Seaman, Wright, endless list really) or with indifference (e.g. Fabregas, Toure- we wouldn't really know whether to boo them or applaud them if they came back!)?
I would think a lot rests on what happens between now and the Summer. Maybe if he makes motions about wanting to leave, then it would be to the detriment of the team of course.
However, if a move just "happens", so to speak, in the close season and it's at the end of a trophyless campaign, I'd still think he'd be welcomed back with adulation whenever/however he comes back.