Well it is because he was a quality player who was ours and is better than what we have, if he was ours he would have been very useful right now. Whereas for him he's at CL club, playing regularly in a nice country with great weather and beautiful women. I'd say he got the better end of the deal.
Well we went through alot to get him here, ie loaning him out to rack up his games for a permit iirc and when he finally did arrive, I'm not really sure why, could of been the league itself as the La Liga is much weaker. I'd have him back for our bench that's for sure though.
We aren't going to extract those kind of performances if he was going to be unhappy here, it's fairly unlikely he's going to be play ahead of Theo, plus Wenger loves his big tall strikers up front. I remember the same argument was put forward about Aliadiere and though he has resurrected his career to some extent, it's not like it's a baffling one to let him go.
That's the problem, if he doesn't fit into a certain mould Wenger doesn't like them, kinda explains why we haven't won a thing in 8 years...clearly the Wenger mould players aren't working, not that you'd expect him to acknowledge that, as he's unable to spot basic flaws in his methodology either.
is vela better then van persie, chamkh, podolski, giroud and walcott?
answer. maybe chamkh but the rest are better. so why do we need him? he failed in england. and not jsut at Arsenal. he went to west brom on loan and failed there. cant blame wenger for that one.