Quote Originally Posted by Syn View Post
Of course it would've changed the reactions - not just of our fans but everyone in football. Reading on Rawk and elsewhere, everyone thinks he's a bit of a **** for doing what he did. He didn't need to do it and if he was pissed off at PHW, as I said, his statement shouldve been "I want to stay but Arsenal want the money and want to sell", knowing full well that Arsenal had got the replacements in and wanted to cash in.

The bottom line is -Cesc would not be booed. He never made a secret about wanting to go back to Barcelona (as stupid a decision as that was) and kept his mouth shut and didn't slag off the club. Even though he had 3 years on his contract, he knew the club would sell, and we did.

Its illogical behaviour and I think Van Persie is more switched on than that. As thick skinned as he might be, and as happy as he might be at winning the title, everyone also likes to be loved and I'm sure he's regretting releasing that statement, knowing full well the move to man Utd would've happened anyway.
Why would a statement of ‘Arsenal want to cash’ be any better than what he did? Wouldn’t that be worse and a serious disrespect to the club? I think he may have misjudged the fans and shouldn’t have said anything. It was handled badly and the club knew what they were doing when they stopped him from talking to the press and then PHW makes that silly statement. Each of them were trying to play the blame game. PHW was trying to blame to spin the ‘modern day player’ story. Didn’t he talk about Man Utd and Scholes or was that when he was talking about Theo? RVP was blaming the club and putting the spin on the clubs ‘sporting ambition’.