Good Bye RVP!

[Power n Glory]

Okay, so you'd be happy if a guy with the same job title as you, same experience, same age...maybe younger, earned double of what you earned? You're living comfortable on what you earn but wouldn't it tick you off that some guy right next to you is earning double and you do the same role? Why has the company placed such a low value on what you do?

[KSE Comedy Club]

Okay, so you'd be happy if a guy with the same job title as you, same experience, same age...maybe younger, earned double of what you earned? You're living comfortable on what you earn but wouldn't it tick you off that some guy right next to you is earning double and you do the same role? Why has the company placed such a low value on what you do?

RVP was the highest paid player at arsenal though wasn't he.

[Power n Glory]

Juve pulled out because they weren't able to match out asking price. RVP also was reported to not want to go there due to the troubles with the coach.

Why should we just accept whatever pittance we get offered?

If they did that then everyone would be moaning that we got shafted on the fee, just like last summer with cesc.

The BBC reported that he was coming round to the idea of staying, but after he released his statement wenger didn't want him to stay, so he told him before the cologne game that he didn't feature in his plans and would be sold if his fee was met.

Utd met the fee and that was the only club the RVP wanted to go to.

Where there you go. It was about money and that took priority over the statement or any 'insult'. If it wasn't about the money we wouldn't have sold him to our nearest rivals.

[GP]

Juve pulled out because they weren't able to match out asking price. RVP also was reported to not want to go there due to the troubles with the coach.

Why should we just accept whatever pittance we get offered?

If they did that then everyone would be moaning that we got shafted on the fee, just like last summer with cesc.

The BBC reported that he was coming round to the idea of staying, but after he released his statement wenger didn't want him to stay, so he told him before the cologne game that he didn't feature in his plans and would be sold if his fee was met.

Utd met the fee and that was the only club the RVP wanted to go to.

Yep. The statement sealed his fate. Without it he would still be here.

[Ollie the Optimist]

We had no problems keeping vieira though. Did we?

Here is Wenger: "We already recruited to replace him," claimed Wenger on French TV station TF1. "We have already recruited since we bought Giroud and Podolski, who originally were intended to offset the departure of Van Persie."

When was podolski signed? Tells you all you need to know!

podolski was signed in march, giroud in june, statement in july. those are facts we have. you ahve no idea when the club knew about the statement, either on the day or months before. so with those facts because they are all we have, they werent bought to replace rvp

[KSE Comedy Club]

http://www.arsenalnewsreview.co.uk/i...rsenal-demands

To stay at Arsenal, Captain Robin wanted bigger wages than Yaya Toure !

Yaya is on 240K ! Incredible.

King Robin wanted to leave so much, apparently, that he made crazy demands.

Impossible demands.

He demanded a £5m loyalty bonus, plus £13m a year, a new right back, a new centreback, and his own Dutch physio shipped in to work with him full-time, paid for by the club!

He wanted £250,000 a week, more than Manchester United are playing him.

I reckon Van Persie will struggle to adapt up there.

Glad he's gone before the Sunderland game.

When Gary Jacob told me almost 8 weeks ago that agent Kees Vos had agreed a contract for Robin van Persie with Man United, I believed it immediately.

Gary's reliable, knows what's going on and what's*not going on.

It was one of those emails that you don't forget and and it arrived about*6.30pm on the Saturday before Italy played England in Kiev*:

RVP: I am hearing that man u have agreed a contract with him.

Have to admit that my reaction contained Anglo-Saxon*expletives and blasphemy.

But I really hoped the saga wouldn’t last till September 1st.

It hasn’t.

For this relief, much thanks.

[Ollie the Optimist]

so graham hunter has just done an interview where he says this

RVP told CESC last summer 'Happy to be captain but 1 more year of no trophies and I'm off'. Spoke with Man Utd since Jan"

http://media.newstalk.ie/listenback/...niqueID=405786 link for it.



so he whored himself out without our permission etc. kind of shows what a **** he is and that wenger and the board are blameless

[GP]

http://www.arsenalnewsreview.co.uk/i...rsenal-demands

[Power n Glory]

RVP was the highest paid player at arsenal though wasn't he.

On £90k a week I think. Or was it £70k? Cesc and Henry earned more than him while they were here and then we have the issue with his counterparts at rival clubs. They earn double and none of them were PFA players last year either. Would you stay on £90k a week and you're approaching 30 when a rival club that can actually win something and won't sell off key players every year are offering to double your wages?

[Syn]

Isn't it? I don't think it's that different to a 'real' job.

It's very different. Ultimately whether moving for a pay rise is 'worth it' is dependent on preferences and there's no right answer. But the factors, and what you value, going for a payrise at £40k a year compared to £80k a week is likely to be far more favourable in an ethical sense. It all comes down to the marginal value of expenditure - obviously footballers would have a completely different reference point about an 'acceptable' lifestyle. But even taking that into account, for the large amount of money we are talking about, we reach a point where you can spend as much as you want, but the return on that money begins to slow because there's only so much you can't afford.