Fabregas goes to Barca for £35million

[Japan Shaking All Over]

RVP is a bad choice. He's a striker for one, gets frustrated very easily and isn't always inspirational or productive when he's in that state, and last but not least, he's probably just as annoyed as Cesc with the club.

During his last contract talks he was saying we need to match his 'sporting ambition' before he signs a new deal. He seems like a stand up guy, but if a top club really wanted him, I think he'd also consider a move. Cesc is the only player that has a top club after him at the moment. The loyalty of the majority of our players has never been seriously tested.


RVP just came back from holiday with Cesc and I'd find it hard to believe that he and Cesc never spoke about Arsenal and the frustration of not winning a trophy in years. All is not well with the club and passing on the armband won't make a difference. I thought Nasri was happy to stay here some months back and now look. The disease will spread if the club fail to act this summer.

although strikers are not your natural choice as a captain, there is nothing written that they can't be one and do a good job at the same time.......Shearer was not a bad captain in fact he was a (very) good one, my only worry would be whether the extra responsibility affects a player's form

RvP has his petulant moments I agree but he shows far more commitment than the majority that I saw playing for us last year, especially as the season was drawing to a close, without his goals we would have been in an even bigger mess than we ended up in and CL would have been taken out of the equation, which might be the only draw we can offer to potential transfer targets come this summer. The captain armband may bring out a more mature Robin......but then maybe it could back fire.......leadership is what we need on the pitch and I am not sure if Cesc brings that or will do in the event of hime putting up with another season of Wengerball.......show me the player with the leadership qualities we need and I will lend my support to him, I do think Verms could do a job as well if not RvP but I have to rack my brians to come up with another......Jacks too young

[Power n Glory]

although strikers are not your natural choice as a captain, there is nothing written that they can't be one and do a good job at the same time.......Shearer was not a bad captain in fact he was a (very) good one, my only worry would be whether the extra responsibility affects a player's form

RvP has his petulant moments I agree but he shows far more commitment than the majority that I saw playing for us last year, especially as the season was drawing to a close, without his goals we would have been in an even bigger mess than we ended up in and CL would have been taken out of the equation, which might be the only draw we can offer to potential transfer targets come this summer. The captain armband may bring out a more mature Robin......but then maybe it could back fire.......leadership is what we need on the pitch and I am not sure if Cesc brings that or will do in the event of hime putting up with another season of Wengerball.......show me the player with the leadership qualities we need and I will lend my support to him, I do think Verms could do a job as well if not RvP but I have to rack my brians to come up with another......Jacks too young

That was the same sort of argument we were putting forwards for making Cesc captain. It’s not always a good idea to always give the armband to our best player on the field. The burden weighs them down sometimes. It happened with Henry and it’s happening with Cesc. You never know, RVP could be the guy to be captain but it’s not always good to make that judgment based on performances on the pitch. It’s where we’ve gone wrong in the past.

Verm might not be a bad choice. I think he captained Ajax at one point so he’d get my vote.

[Coney]

That was the same sort of argument we were putting forwards for making Cesc captain. It’s not always a good idea to always give the armband to our best player on the field. The burden weighs them down sometimes. It happened with Henry and it’s happening with Cesc. You never know, RVP could be the guy to be captain but it’s not always good to make that judgment based on performances on the pitch. It’s where we’ve gone wrong in the past.

Verm might not be a bad choice. I think he captained Ajax at one point so he’d get my vote.

Agree. Vermalin looked good when he arrived and was bossing the back 4. Showed good signs of leadership and is something we have been lacking on the pitch. If he can control the back 4 so we have a decent defence again, that might hopefully mean the midfield and forwards can stop looking over their shoulders and we can play more of the attacking and counter-attacking football that served us well in the past.

[Boss]

It's just an armband ffs.

You need enough experienced players on the field for the captaincy issue to not matter as much.

I think Fabregas is fine as a captain, just need to add some quality around him. We do have a decent spine (Vermaelen-Fabregas-Van Persie), problem is they're rarely fit at the same time and they're surrounded by a lot of garbage.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

That was the same sort of argument we were putting forwards for making Cesc captain. It’s not always a good idea to always give the armband to our best player on the field. The burden weighs them down sometimes. It happened with Henry and it’s happening with Cesc. You never know, RVP could be the guy to be captain but it’s not always good to make that judgment based on performances on the pitch. It’s where we’ve gone wrong in the past.

Verm might not be a bad choice. I think he captained Ajax at one point so he’d get my vote.

I wasnt thinking that RvP is best because he is our best player, more because of the fire he has, he gives as good as he gets and will not take shit from the pud league defenders that litter the PL
Sure he can get himself onto trouble but he is there for the team both in the way he plays as well as the support he gives his team mates,
we havent had that kind of captain since Viera

Although for coll headed leadership Verms would be the man, question is, what IF we bought Damba and Cahill?

[Alan B'stard]

board concedes they may have to sell - bbc website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13928823.stm

[Cripps_orig]

Barca will come back with a £31m offer apparently.

We should tell them to fuck off.

We wont

[LDG]

board concedes they may have to sell - bbc website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13928823.stm

But Arsenal's board, consisting of Kroenke, Gazidis, chairman Peter Hill-Wood and directors Ken Friar, Sir Chips Keswick and Lord Harris of Peckham are aware of the difficulties of keeping the 24-year-old against his will.

Do we have fake board members or something??

[Power n Glory]

I knew it. We're negotiating and willing to sell. Spineless bastards. How in the fuck is he only worth £40m? They better throw in one of their players with this deal.

Man U sell their star man for £70m
Liverpool sell their star man £50m
AC Milan...Kaka...£50m
We're willing to sell Cesc, our captain and the man the team is built around for £40m! Clueless.

[Cripps_orig]

I knew it. We're negotiating and willing to sell. Spineless bastards. How in the fuck is he only worth £40m? They better throw in one of their players with this deal.

Man U sell their star man for £70m
Liverpool sell their star man £50m
AC Milan...Kaka...£50m
We're willing to sell Cesc, our captain and the man the team is built around for £40m! Clueless.

As i said previously, Wenger has always bent over for Barca.

And anyone who believes Cesc being sold is down to the board and not Wenger is fooling themselves.