Good Bye RVP!

[GP]

We won't get anything near that for him.

The Club need to make it clear (and stick to it) that either he is seeing out his contract or get him out the door immediately. We just can't have the same shit we had last year.

Because of his injury record and his age, his value is nowhere near the sums a lot of people believe. This in a perverse way is good for the Club because there is less to lose financially by making him see his contract out.

He needs to go now, and he needs to go abroad.

[Munchies]

How will our team shape up now we know he's going ? Podolski to take his position ?

[GP]

The 2nd one wasn't 'soft', it was farcical, possibly corrupt. You're cherry picking a few bad games here and there to support an argument which doesn't stack up. There is absolutely no way we'd have finished top 4 last year without him. Can we do so without him? It'll be tough but the new signings are good and we've got time to make more signings so we've got a chance.

The new signings did worry me. I hoped they were an attempt to show Robin we're trying to show a bit of ambition but I feared they were because we knew he was going. Part of me thinks we should keep him this year. We won't get loads for him anyway, I don't think he'll sulk his way through the season and I think we'll qualify for the CL next season with him which would be worth more than we'd get for him anyway. It also buys us time to think about more replacements. But the mood on here suggests his position would be difficult. That said, we are a load of fickle twats - a couple of goals and we'd be singing his name again.

His position is untenable. The sole purpose of his statement today is to force a move.

[GP]

How will our team shape up now we know he's going ? Podolski to take his position ?

Giroud. Podolski on the left.

[Munchies]

Giroud. Podolski on the left.

Hopefully Podolski is decent there, at the Euros he looked shite.

[Letters]

His position is untenable. The sole purpose of his statement today is to force a move.

Agree with the 2nd part of that, not sure about the first.
You go to games, you know how fickle people are. He bangs in a couple of goals and people will soon be cheering for him.

[Letters]

Hopefully Podolski is decent there, at the Euros he looked shite.

So did van Persie tbh, he's got a good record overall, he's obviously a decent enough player.

[jelgoon]

Well I think he is worth at least twenty million i really do. Hes one of the worlds top players and 29 is no age these days. I am sure we will sell him - the board are much too stingy to hold onto him. I agree with you that it was obvious that he was going - we would never have bought two strikers close season like that. I think its a huge loss - without him last season we would have come near the bottom there's no doubt about that. HE probably sat down and said to the board that we needed five or six real quality players and the board refused to commit.

The 2nd one wasn't 'soft', it was farcical, possibly corrupt. You're cherry picking a few bad games here and there to support an argument which doesn't stack up. There is absolutely no way we'd have finished top 4 last year without him. Can we do so without him? It'll be tough but the new signings are good and we've got time to make more signings so we've got a chance.

The new signings did worry me. I hoped they were an attempt to show Robin we're trying to show a bit of ambition but I feared they were because we knew he was going. Part of me thinks we should keep him this year. We won't get loads for him anyway, I don't think he'll sulk his way through the season and I think we'll qualify for the CL next season with him which would be worth more than we'd get for him anyway. It also buys us time to think about more replacements. But the mood on here suggests his position would be difficult. That said, we are a load of fickle twats - a couple of goals and we'd be singing his name again.

[GP]

Agree with the 2nd part of that, not sure about the first.
You go to games, you know how fickle people are. He bangs in a couple of goals and people will soon be cheering for him.

I'm not sure. There's a fair amount of resentment right now.

I don't think he'll kick another ball for us anyway, so it's a moo point.

[Joker]

The 2nd one wasn't 'soft', it was farcical, possibly corrupt. You're cherry picking a few bad games here and there to support an argument which doesn't stack up. There is absolutely no way we'd have finished top 4 last year without him. Can we do so without him? It'll be tough but the new signings are good and we've got time to make more signings so we've got a chance.

The new signings did worry me. I hoped they were an attempt to show Robin we're trying to show a bit of ambition but I feared they were because we knew he was going. Part of me thinks we should keep him this year. We won't get loads for him anyway, I don't think he'll sulk his way through the season and I think we'll qualify for the CL next season with him which would be worth more than we'd get for him anyway. It also buys us time to think about more replacements. But the mood on here suggests his position would be difficult. That said, we are a load of fickle twats - a couple of goals and we'd be singing his name again.

If you look at his goalscoring record against the top teams, and compare it to players like Rooney, Drogba etc, you'll see how inferior it is. Yes, last season he did score a hattrick against Chelsea and against United, but look back over 8 seasons and you'll realise he's got this uncanny knack of disappearing when we most need him. If you want more evidence, look at his goalscoring record for the Netherlands. Mostly, it's +1s against poor sides like Andorra. In the World Cup 2010, he was totally ineffective against Brazil, Uruguay and Spain and Slovakia, all the knockout phase games. The guy can't do it when the pressure's on, and he'll be found out wherever he goes. I said the same thing after the 8-2 defeat against United, when he missed the penalty which would have levelled the game.