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He could have done but he probably didn't think Arsenal were very serious about trying to win trophies. It's certainly a secondary concern to keeping the money rolling in. We can all see that, the players must be able to as well. Most of our players aren't at the level where they'd be courted by a club like Utd. RvP clearly was, if he didn't think it was possible to win trophies at Arsenal because we're not serious about signing the level of players we need to push us on. Utd are. Loyalty is fine up to a point but there's no point being stupid about it. Forgetting who we support, in the same position most of us would have done the exact same thing. Maybe not in the exact same way.
At least you talk sense . Most fans are blinded by emotion . They blame the Board or the Manager for refusing to strengthen and make the team competitive but when the players , who know better than us how the team is being run , react , the same fans blame the players more than the culprits who don't care about the fans .
RVP was loyal and a great player for us but the team let him down . You can't be watching other people winning everything every day and accept it simply because your bosses don't want to win anything . I could have understood people anger towards Van Persie if Arsenal tried to win something . Our transfer policy is wrong and out of date . We are one of the worst in transfer policy . The likes of Swansea , QPR , ...are better than us in that respect .How can we expect to keep our star players ? Plus , our wages are just ridiculous . We pay more money to average and injury-prone players who can not help the team and refuse to give money to those who work hard for the team . We refused to add world class players to help RVP and our offer to him was around 130k per week . How could we have kept him ?