Quote Originally Posted by Syn View Post
The only thing I don't understand to this day is why Van Persie chose to damage his reputation by announcing on his website that he didn't agree with the club policy and that he won't be signing a new contract. If we weren't going to sell him, that wouldn't have stopped us. And if were going to sell him, he didn't need to do it and could've kept the respect of the arsenal fans knowing it was purely araenal's decision to sell. You guys like to argue about loads of stupid things but I haven't heard a logical reason for this.
Maybe he calculated there was enough bad feeling towards the club's policies he'd get support from the fans. That way he could leave and have the fans nodding in understanding rather than calling him a traitorous ****. He calculated correctly in many cases.