Good Bye RVP!

[Xhaka Can’t]

I don't think that is entirely fair. He is entitled to decide on whether or not he wants to sign a new contract.

However, no that the decision has been made and it unlikely his position is tenable, lets get this sorted right away with the only consideration being what is best for the Club.

That said, my faith in the people supposed to be running the Club to do that is pretty low.

[LDG]

Meh. I really don't care tbh.

[Power n Glory]

Had the best part of the day to think about this and even though it took me by surprise I stoll dont feel gutted. It may be that Wenger got in two replacements before we the bomb dropped but I believe we will ride through this storm.
Sure we relied very heavily on RvPs goals last year but if I got any positives from last year was that we played with more togetherness than I have seen for ages. We may not see his category of goal for a while but the team aint going to die and although my initial reaction was to keep him for the last year as I imagine there will be less interest in him come this time next year, I agree with PnG that the risk of damage to the team is great and we need to move on. I think Juve showed us where the bidding starts and those thinking wr are getting 20-40are touched.

I say take 10-15 max and go and test that apparent cheap release clause in Ba's contract, could do worse, PL experience, jump at a chance to play in CL and fuck it get MVila, we obviously have the money as we were iinterested enough before the stories started flying around, we gave enough dead wood to bring in some cash as well, also with RvP and Nic on their way we are going to need at least one stroppy cu#t

Pods - Giourd - Robin sounded good for a brief moment. . .though was never going ti happen

I get the sense that this togetherness is about to be dealt a death blow. RVP was a big part of that and you could see it in the way he lead as a captain and how the players responded to him. Theo is next to leave, an issue that we haven't even touched on yet and having two of our best performers from last season leave in another summer window is really going to mess with the squad. Certain players are going to be pissed off and their going to be questioning our ambition next...wash and repeat. It's downward spiral because we keep chipping away at what we're building and it's two steps back every bloody season.

To counter the negative, the club has to bring in two or three quality players if RVP and Theo leave this summer. We can't go into next season with these departures. It's too bloody negative and we'll have a repeat of the last season where nobody felt like playing and we looked flat. What pisses me off is the fact that we could all see this coming ages ago but the club sat back and did nothing. When RVP had two years left on his contract and we had the hoopla with Nasri and Cesc, I said there is no way RVP and Theo are going to sign new deals after this summer. We needed a big season to convince them to stay and we should have showed more ambition in the January transfer window. We didn't and we're not learning the lesson.

[V-Pig]

Good luck at a team which isn't completely moulded around you and at which you're not Jesus. How does that work out in the Dutch team?

Hoping for a couple of juicy fights between Balotelli and RVP being reported in the gutter press.

Also, for how long can he remain injury free? Sell him and give all the money to Alex Song tbh.

[LDG]

Alex Song

[V-Pig]

Alex Song

[Xhaka Can’t]

I get the sense that this togetherness is about to be dealt a death blow. RVP was a big part of that and you could see it in the way he lead as a captain and how the players responded to him. Theo is next to leave, an issue that we haven't even touched on yet and having two of our best performers from last season leave in another summer window is really going to mess with the squad. Certain players are going to be pissed off and their going to be questioning our ambition next...wash and repeat. It's downward spiral because we keep chipping away at what we're building and it's two steps back every bloody season.

To counter the negative, the club has to bring in two or three quality players if RVP and Theo leave this summer. We can't go into next season with these departures. It's too bloody negative and we'll have a repeat of the last season where nobody felt like playing and we looked flat. What pisses me off is the fact that we could all see this coming ages ago but the club sat back and did nothing. When RVP had two years left on his contract and we had the hoopla with Nasri and Cesc, I said there is no way RVP and Theo are going to sign new deals after this summer. We needed a big season to convince them to stay and we should have showed more ambition in the January transfer window. We didn't and we're not learning the lesson.

You could say the Club have learnt a lesson and demonstrated it by making two signings at the right side of the window. Other than that however, we are repeating the same mistakes of the past.

In mitigation however, how big a priority would extending RvP have been this time last year? What would have been the reaction to offering a talented yet injury prone striker an extended contract up to when he is around 33?

[Power n Glory]

Song's not signing a new deal. He's trying to get his stock up and get noticed by the big clubs. He'll be gone next summer.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Song's not signing a new deal. He's trying to get his stock up and get noticed by the big clubs. He'll be gone next summer.

I Know What You Did Next Summer!

[Power n Glory]

You could say the Club have learnt a lesson and demonstrated it by making two signings at the right side of the window. Other than that however, we are repeating the same mistakes of the past.

In mitigation however, how big a priority would extending RvP have been this time last year? What would have been the reaction to offering a talented yet injury prone striker an extended contract up to when he is around 33?

That last statement shows the hypocrisy of this whole affair. We can't talk about showing loyalty when we're considering throwing players on the scrap heap because of their age and injury record. If we're thinking about how much we can get out of him, he's thinking along the same lines and has every right to want out after his contract has ended.