If the Club are saying, and PHW pretty much alluded to it himself, that they couldn't pay RVP's wage demands, yet a year later stump up for Rooney's, that would just look ridiculous. That is why I don't see this happening.
If the Club are saying, and PHW pretty much alluded to it himself, that they couldn't pay RVP's wage demands, yet a year later stump up for Rooney's, that would just look ridiculous. That is why I don't see this happening.
I don’t see it happening and can’t see him wanting to sign for us but you make a good point about the RVP wage issue. We couldn’t afford RVP’s wages a year ago but suddenly find money to pay Rooney? It’s not impossible considering we have the new Prem money and sponsorship money kicking in soon. Also, I would have thought they’d have taken the new Prem and sponsorship money into account when talking over up RVP’s contract. It may explain why we’ve been able to break the wage structure with Theo. But surely they’d have used the same foresight when considering RVP’s contract?Originally Posted by GB.
This makes me think back to what Wenger said about signing players to big contracts when they’re on the verge of decline and past their physical peak. If that’s the reason why we let RVO go then it makes no sense to sign Rooney.
Guys, it's Rooney! Even if this was remotely possible, it's Rooney FFS! This would be like having RvN at the club or Crooknapp as manager. Some things can't happen and must never happen. We don't need to chuck all dignity away and go full city mode, we just need 4-5 proper signings in the Arsenal tradition (pre cursed stadium) and a readjustment in terms of what we thing ambition is. On the other hand, if we really want to piss in the tall grass with clubs like Utd, let's not be going after their refuse, it's not Rooney we want it's Ronaldo. Escort that yank by the ear to his bank and put in that bid and now you are talking. Let's do it properly if we are going Hollywood.
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Too bad he wouldnt get into their side, would be good for england if wilshere worked under a tactician like pep so he could one day become a proper player.
i reckon at that stage, everyone in the club knew that rvp was on his way. the point of phw coming out was to shift the emphasis away from our complete inability to win anything toward wages, so that became the 'reason' rvp wanted to leave. rvp knew were were winning shit for a while yet and knew his best chance was with united under ferguson - given his record it's a no brainer. we could've afforded the wages if we wanted this season without any issue and we probably offered him a huge increase to match united but it wasn't enough. wenger himself said rvp turned down 300k from city, so it's clear what his priorities were. we didn't have a chance in keeping rvp in any sort of 'happy' situation. we could've clung on for another year but that would not have worked out well at all i believe.
This. A little sanity here, please!
Putting the laughter back into manslaughter
Dortmund in talks with Christian Eriksen.
He's the kind of player we should be looking at if we're serious.
A 21 year old AM? last thing we need at the moment.
Wow, perfect player for Dortmund to replace Gotze .
21 but already has quite a bit of experience. Would definitely improve us.
Didn't say we don't need to strengthen in other areas as well.
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