Good Bye RVP!

[Syn]

He was never going to stay.

Even if he did he wouldn't have given 100% because he didn't want to be here.

If it wasn't utd it would have been citeh, and tbh I hate both clubs as much as the other so fuck them all tbh.

I think the club have done the right thing to some extent, they've got a good price for a player on the cusp of being 30 who has spent 75% of his career on the injury table.

For a start, the price is only relevant (From the fans view) if we were going to spend big money. We're not. Don't let a few of our Championship Manager signings fool you. We've done our main business on the buying front. And it was good business. All we needed to do was, for once, stick to our principles and keep this good squad of players until next year. We didn't. Someone came flashing the cash and we just showed ourselves to be the selling club we are.

Van Persie will decline but at least for the next couple of seasons he'll remain phenomenal. He is an amazing player when fit, no doubt. And we've just handed him to Man Utd. Unbelievable. And yet very believable.

[KSE Comedy Club]

to people who say the money will be re-invested....who do you think you are kidding?.

Mr hitler?

[Letters]

we got 24 million for him?

take a bow gazadias

It's decent money for him but
1) It won't be re-invested so it'a moot
2) We sold him to the club who finished above us last year. We sold our most important player, our captain, to a team who we're supposed to be competing with.

I do think we've made some decent signings but it was going to be hard enough to compete with the top 2 without handing one of them* our best player.

* - not that I'd have cared if he'd gone to City as I can't take anything they achieve seriously.

[Marc Overmars]

we got 24 million for him?

take a bow gazadias

Gazadias.

[KSE Comedy Club]

For a start, the price is only relevant (From the fans view) if we were going to spend big money. We're not. Don't let a few of our Championship Manager signings fool you. We've done our main business on the buying front. And it was good business. All we needed to do was, for once, stick to our principles and keep this good squad of players until next year. We didn't. Someone came flashing the cash and we just showed ourselves to be the selling club we are.

Van Persie will decline but at least for the next couple of seasons he'll remain phenomenal. He is an amazing player when fit, no doubt. And we've just handed him to Man Utd. Unbelievable. And yet very believable.

It's really not the case at all.

The offers we had for him were well below what we were asking and in the time since juve and citeh pulled out the club have tried to talk him round and get him to stay and he's had none of it.

Utd were the only club left to buy him that would pay what were asking. RVP wanted out.

No point keeping him even if it was to rot in the reserves or sit on the bench for a year. We would never hear the end of his impending move somewhere and how him not being involved was affecting the team, etc.

Situations like that just don't end well, and turn into a cancer. Best thing to do is cut them off.

I back the clubs decision to sell him to wherever for the right price here tbh.

[BOBN]

Tbf RVP was shit for the past few months but PHENOMENAL before that.

I guess we'll wait and see what happens next - could be Sheva or could be Bergkamp

One thing to bear in mind is Arsenal create a lot of chances. By playing one striker up front, ANY striker, they're going to score a lot of goals (well maybe not Park/Chamakh). Even that useless **** Adebayor got 30 goals for us one season.

Chilax, we'll be fine.

Thing is if you remember bergkamp was unplayable in arsenals double winning season until around the time he missed the penalty in that united semi in 99. After that he was still good but it was really playing from memory, relying on his outrageous technique and vision (above and beyond van persies), but he was no longer than untouchable match winner.

He was about the same age as RVP is now.

[BOBN]

I've never hoped for your wild theories to be true more than this one.

Relax friends, we will be having the last laugh when he is loaned out to feyanoord in 18 months on susidised wages.

[Marc Overmars]

For a start, the price is only relevant (From the fans view) if we were going to spend big money. We're not. Don't let a few of our Championship Manager signings fool you. We've done our main business on the buying front. And it was good business. All we needed to do was, for once, stick to our principles and keep this good squad of players until next year. We didn't. Someone came flashing the cash and we just showed ourselves to be the selling club we are.

Van Persie will decline but at least for the next couple of seasons he'll remain phenomenal. He is an amazing player when fit, no doubt. And we've just handed him to Man Utd. Unbelievable. And yet very believable.

I'm sure the club would have preferred not to sell him to United but money is the name of the game. The clubs priority is to balance the books, there's no doubt it. We sell to buy, that is well documented and proven every summer. It doesn't matter who the buying club is anymore, we are always ready sell. It's no wonder why our squad gets picked apart by vultures every summer, I'm sure it's well known within the football inner circle that Arsenal will sell if pushed.

I remember when Fergie totally blocked Heinze's move to Liverpool, and that was just for a pub teamer so there's no chance they'd ever sell someone to a rival knowing it would improve them, but then their priorities are different to ours.

[Cripps_orig]

Now ive got some food in me and ive calmed down, i can post on this sensibly and rationally

Hope this **** dies a horrible death

[Joker]

If we were intent on bringing in someone of the stature of Llorente in place of RVP, I wouldn't be all that bothered. However, as Wenger has already said the money won't be reinvested (probably because Giroud was meant to be the replacement) I think our front-line is not strong enough for the coming season. However, this was always on the cards when finishing fourth became the main priority. Other clubs have gone ahead of us, and this makes it much easier to tempt players to leave. In the past, even if Man Utd came calling, it wouldn't have been that much of an attractive proposition, because we were winning trophies and pushing them all the way. Now that the financial balance sheet has become more important than what happens on the pitch, we're struggling to keep hold of players.

A lot of people were hoping that we'd make fuller use of our resources this summer, not focusing on making net profit in the transfer window but rather replenishing the squad with real quality. Instead, it's clear that despite the fact we've signed some good players, all that good work will be undone because of our obsession with "balancing the books".