When asked if he would spend on new players, Wenger said: “We’ve already recruited to replace him.”
ahem...
When asked if he would spend on new players, Wenger said: “We’ve already recruited to replace him.”
ahem...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19179833
Wenger grew a setIt is understood Van Persie was encouraged by the arrivals of Germany forward Lukas Podolski, France striker Olivier Giroud and Spain midfielder Cazorla - to the point where he was open to the idea of staying with or without a new contract.
But Wenger pulled him aside shortly before Sunday's friendly victory over Cologne, told him he would be sold if a deal could be reached and informed the Dutchman he was no longer part of his plans.![]()
Not a question about wenger lying --- the facts were there all along; some made the connections --- others chose to lambast a departing player because it was fashionable. Grimandi said this a while back, before wenger said anything.
Either way, he will still be lambasted.
[QUOTE=gooners;176840]Pretty much and we've just decided to sell him to the highest bidder. The clubs full of shit but fans accept the nonsense and defend the lies. People are picking holes in RVP's statement and then looking past the lies Wenger has told to the fans and taking people for muppets. But who can blame him or PHW. They know they'll get away with it because people will continue to shift the blame on 'greedy' players while the bank the profits. I can't understand how people are following the same dogmatic pattern in thought. We've seen similar arguments repeated over and over again for players like Henry and Vieria but then a few years down the line people start to realise that the money hasn't been spent and we've suffered on the pitch as a result. Deja vu and I'm pretty tired of repeating it. People deserve to get fucked over in ticket prices if you're that dumb and haven't caught on to the scam yet. This self sustaining model is bullshit but if Stan, Wenger and PHW can get away with it, why not?
Just reading the threads on Red Cafe
They seem excited to be buying an injury prone OSW mercenary ****
Others fear this will kill Welbeck and Hernandez not realising that Welbecks shitness is killing him already
Was there any attempt to offer RVP a better deal since we had already signed up Giroud? If RVP was prepared to stay and felt encouraged after seeing the signings, but we sold because we had a great offer on the table, whose the greedy one? We signed Giroud early on as well so we who knows.
If we had no intention of attempting to offer a new contract, we really did fuck up. The guy scored 30 goals in the league last season. No disrespect to Giroud, but he's not a 30 goal striker.