Youre right. Wenger is talking shit as usual. Last week he said that he still wanted to keep RVP and has said endlessly that he did not buy Podolksi or Giroud to replace him. If its true that RVP said that he was coming round to the idea of staying, then its disgusting that we sold him anyway. Wenger and the board are full of shit - I have no respect for them at all.
Nobody here, in this current climate, would stay 'loyal' to a company that openly pays less than the going rate to its employers yet posts year upon year profit increases and is one of the richest companies in the world. Couple that with the fact that the company also likes to cut corners to keep costs low, lays of staff for financial gain while paying massive bonuses to bosses and shareholders while the workers get less than what their counterparts earn at rival companies.
If we continue on with this policy, we'll continue to leak players. It's been going on the far too long and the kids that started with us during the Invincible years are no more loyal than the seniors that left before them. We're running into the same sort of issues we had with Paddy, Cole and Henry. I actually think RVP has been more professional in how he's gone about things compared to the former three. In fact, with Cole, it was a massive bust up but he still signed a new deal, we kept him in the team and he continued to play for us. We sold him after the bust up. I hope this is the last time we have this sort of summer but I doubt it.
Ok, I'll ignore the first part as I've never said that he was greedy.
Yes, he tried to start the ball rolling on his transfer by releasing his statement.
The gagging order was for RVP's and the clubs benefit.
PHW is a cock, but he was right in what he said, that we couldn't offer silly money to keep him, which we couldn't.
Fourth richest club in the world, but by far and away the richest feeder club in the world.
I can hear Wenger already: Fourth is like a trophy.
Forget the "like" - fourth is the only trophy those parsimonious old farts are interested in.