Quote Originally Posted by Arse n Wonga View Post
We took a hard stance and paid the price, we lost one of the best full backs in the game for a few million effectively....sometimes you have to do the necessary to keep players who are a bit special (like RVP etc).

Ironically we could have given him the money and then sold him for a packet if we'd wanted to.
I don't think there was much we could have done about Cole, he wanted to be with his England buddies because Arsenal had become too foreign for him.