Good Bye RVP!

[Letters]

I want what we all want - our club back.

I suggest you start work on that flux capacitor then.

My initial thought was that we should keep him for the year but others on here made me reconsider because
1) We'd have a player who everyone knows wants to leave, I don't see how that helps us as a club.
2) He'd just leave on a free, possibly still to Utd, a year later.

I think it's harsh to say that we've done this only because of the finances, there are other things to consider.

[KSE Comedy Club]

He looks brilliant, it must be said.

That's better

[Cripps_orig]

As for the RVP bashing, why shouldnt we?

This is the **** that was injured season in and season out for 7 years in a row, he manages to keep fit for one season and produces the goods and then fucks off showing no loyalty to the club and more importantly the fans who stuck by him every season including when he was accused as a rapist.

Hopefully that case is reopened tbh and he is found to be one after all

[LDG]

I want what we all want - our club back. I don't want us to be messed around by our high-performing players every summer. We have to stop this trend somehow - and it will only start with a 'No' somewhere along the line.

Song, Walcott, Vermaelen...we don't know where it'll end. We all want players that want to play for the Arsenal. We keep thinking the new batch of players are different. But didn't we think Van Persie was one of us last season? Another recent example is Flamini.

I agree that we cannot compete with the wages other clubs can offer - and I understand if we couldn't get Van Persie to stay on after next season but as far now, as a matter of principle, we really should have tried to stop the rot and looked to cut the gap at the top. I really thought the club would, for once, make the decision that didn't just make the most financial sense. And that's why I'm very disappointed.

Dude, the only clubs who can keep hold of their players are the ones with the most money.

That's why you don't see any of them clamouring for a move from City, Barca or Madrid. Because they're all quids in.

Rooney tried it, and Utd bowed down and gave him the money.

We haven't. And I'm actually quite proud of that.

But as everyone is saying. I hope we invest that 24 million back into the squad (assuming we spent the QR profit on our earlier signings).

[KSE Comedy Club]

We still kept the vieiras and henrys --- the former especially despite wharever. United kept Rooney -- was tjat player power?

Utd kept Rooney by paying him £220k pw.

We kept vieira for a couple of seasons before we sold him on after his endless will he/won't he sagas.

Henry signed his last ever contract then we sold him to barca the next season. His marriage breakdown had more to do with that though I suspect.

[Joker]

As for the RVP bashing, why shouldnt we?

This is the **** that was injured season in and season out for 7 years in a row, he manages to keep fit for one season and produces the goods and then fucks off showing no loyalty to the club and more importantly the fans who stuck by him every season including when he was accused as a rapist.

Hopefully that case is reopened tbh and he is found to be one after all

No problem calling him a ****, but you need to question why we keep losing our first team players. And at least part of the blame lies in the direction the club has taken since 2005, with the obsession with "self sustainability" having seen us cut adrift from the top teams in the Premier League.

[gooners]

So I made that statement up then?

Here we go again. I'm not debating that shit all over again. Sorry carry on

[Cripps_orig]

No problem calling him a ****, but you need to question why we keep losing our first team players. And at least part of the blame lies in the direction the club has taken since 2005, with the obsession with "self sustainability" having seen us cut adrift from the top teams in the Premier League.

Oh dont get me wrong, the club have many faults and are not blameless in this but certainly in RVCs case, you'd expect a bit more loyalty

[Syn]

I suggest you start work on that flux capacitor then.

My initial thought was that we should keep him for the year but others on here made me reconsider because
1) We'd have a player who everyone knows wants to leave, I don't see how that helps us as a club.

About this - it's not like a switch that goes off in a player's mind where he thinks "I want to leave" or "I want to say". When Van Persie was banging in all those goals last year - and choosing to delay the contract situation until the end of the season - it's very possible he didn't want to be here then. Same with Flamini - when he was putting in those fantastic performances in his final year of his contract, he would've known he wanted out at the end of the season. Van Persie still had the incentive of playing for a big contract. And at 30 years old (which he would've been this time next year) to attract the calibre of clubs he wanted, he would've had to produce the goods, I think.

How everyone else around the squad would feel...I don't know. I definitely would've taken the captaincy off him (whether that means anything any-more or not). All the Dortmund players knew Kagawa was off at the end of the season and they won their league. Similar with Giroud in the French. Looking at the training photos, everyone was still having a laugh with Van Persie right up to last week. As I said, it's not like a switch that goes off. We're talking about grown men who are, these days, used to seeing players come and go. But sending a message that "if you're contracted, you have to stay" is probably more likely to keep them in line.

[Marc Overmars]

RVC.

Awful ****.