Good Bye RVP!

[Power n Glory]

From Van Persie's perspective, we obviously had a fighting chance to compete at the top if he had stayed. Last season he was sold short and the squad wasn't at the level we could compete. But this year could've been different if he had decided to stay. So don't buy his ambition bullshit at all.

Well, that's the baffling part because it sounds as if we had decided to sell him early on. I keep repeating this point but it's important, Wenger said from early that he might not be worth the wage increase because of his age and we moved early on Poldoski. Also, if reports are true and we started to feel encouraged by the signings we made but we said we didn't want him....well....who knows. He wasn't encouraged by the meeting we had and saying things could be different this year, I hope so too, but the window is still open and we still could sell Song, Theo and Arshavin. That wipes out all of our regular goal scorers and providers in one season. We'll see anyway.

[Newguy]

Well, that's the baffling part because it sounds as if we had decided to sell him early on. I keep repeating this point but it's important, Wenger said from early that he might not be worth the wage increase because of his age and we moved early on Poldoski. Also, if reports are true and we started to feel encouraged by the signings we made but we said we didn't want him....well....who knows. He wasn't encouraged by the meeting we had and saying things could be different this year, I hope so too, but the window is still open and we still could sell Song, Theo and Arshavin. That wipes out all of our regular goal scorers and providers in one season. We'll see anyway.

Theo should stay, Song will get sold and we'll get in a DM reports of Mvilla being back on have surfaced...what the fuck is an "Arshavin" LOL That guy is no good to anyone, he doesnt want to stay at Arsenal...he's in the list of players I hope we sell, he past his best for us so I wouldnt worry about losing the russian.

[Marc Overmars]

Theo should stay, Song will get sold and we'll get in a DM reports of Mvilla being back on have surfaced...what the fuck is an "Arshavin" LOL That guy is no good to anyone, he doesnt want to stay at Arsenal...he's in the list of players I hope we sell, he past his best for us so I wouldnt worry about losing the russian.

Forget about staying at Arsenal, I'm not even sure Arshavin wants to play football. The freak.

[jelgoon]

Not really. If he hadnt said anything you would have slagged him off for being silent and not letting Arsenal know what he was going to do. I happen to believe that he decided to leave cos he knew we didnt have a prayer of winning the league or CL again and he wanted a crack at those trophies. Sure he's disloyal and all that but I dont believe his motive was money

He wanted to fuck off and released a disingenuous statement to try and protect his hero status. It backfired, now he's a ****. On we go.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Reports on twitter are that theo will or has signed a new contract.

[jelgoon]

I thought Arshavin had been sold or is about to be. Read it a couple of days ago but cant remember what club wants him

Forget about staying at Arsenal, I'm not even sure Arshavin wants to play football. The freak.

[KSE Comedy Club]

Not really. If he hadnt said anything you would have slagged him off for being silent and not letting Arsenal know what he was going to do. I happen to believe that he decided to leave cos he knew we didnt have a prayer of winning the league or CL again and he wanted a crack at those trophies. Sure he's disloyal and all that but I dont believe his motive was money

No one would have slagged him off for keeping quiet.

If he doesn't think we can win the league then fuck him. The rest of the team do.

[Newguy]

http://www.theshortfuse.com/2012/8/1...arsene-wenger?

This made me laugh

[jelgoon]

Yeh I think he'll stay - he's still young.

Reports on twitter are that theo will or has signed a new contract.

[Syn]

Well, that's the baffling part because it sounds as if we had decided to sell him early on. I keep repeating this point but it's important, Wenger said from early that he might not be worth the wage increase because of his age and we moved early on Poldoski. Also, if reports are true and we started to feel encouraged by the signings we made but we said we didn't want him....well....who knows. He wasn't encouraged by the meeting we had and saying things could be different this year, I hope so too, but the window is still open and we still could sell Song, Theo and Arshavin. That wipes out all of our regular goal scorers and providers in one season. We'll see anyway.

The bottom line is - if Van Persie turned around and accepted his contract offer or even just decided to see out his contract, there wouldn't have been anyone stopping him. Of course we may have bought Giroud, in particular, because we thought he was going to leave, but he could've turned around and nobody would've taken that contract offer off the table. If we did, he could've gone to the press and made a big deal that the club won't give him a new contract - as to not look the villain. The season starts in less than 48 hours and there's no doubt, with Van Persie in the Arsenal team, we have a squad of players that is capable of competing well. You can't guarantee success - it's up to the players and the manager to earn it. But we would've had a fighting chance.

About further sales, I don't happen to think Song or Arshavin would be as big a miss as you might. Our squad quality (+ Van Persie) would still be very high. Losing Theo would be a big blow but by all accounts he's very happy to be here so I can see him staying. Song, as well - unless a replacement's lined up, I don't think we'll sell.

So, overall, yeah - I felt sorry for Van Persie last year that he deserved to be playing with better players. We were always that 2 or 3 top players away but this summer we've tried to (whether for the right reasons or not) change that. But this season he had that chance to play with better players and compete for trophies but he has decided to move anyway.

As I've said, the club should've held on to him anyway and you can't say he has stabbed us in the back by moving to Man Utd because we're the ones that accepted their bid. Nevertheless it does seem clear Van Persie's statement was a bunch of artificial bollocks.