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Robin van Persie has released a statement this evening to say he will not renew his Arsenal contract.
In a statement on his official website, he said:
This is an update for the fans about my current situation. I have kept quiet all this time out of respect and loyalty for the club and as agreed with Mr. Gazidis and Mr. Wenger, but since there is so much speculation in the media, I think it is fair for you guys to know what’s really going on at the moment.
As announced earlier this year I had a meeting with the Boss and Mr. Gazidis after the season. This was a meeting about the club’s future strategy and their policy. Financial terms or a contract have not been discussed, since that is not my priority at all.
I personally have had a great season but my goal has been to win trophies with the team and to bring the club back to its glory days. Out of my huge respect for Mr. Wenger, the players and the fans I don’t want to go into any details, but unfortunately in this meeting it has again become clear to me that we in many aspects disagree on the way Arsenal FC should move forward.
I’ve thought long and hard about it, but I have decided not to extend my contract. You guys, the fans, have of course the right to disagree with my view and decision and I will always respect your opinions.
I love the club and the fans, no matter what happens. I have grown up and became a man during my time with Arsenal FC. Everybody at the club and the fans have always supported me over the years and I have always given my all (and more) on and off the pitch. I am very proud of being part of this fantastic club for the last 8 years.
As soon as Mr. Gazidis is back from his 2-week holiday in America further meetings will follow and I will update you if and when there are more developments.
Robin van Persie
Obviously this doesn’t preclude him seeing out his contract and staying for one more year, but when he talks about fundamental disagreements about how the club should move forward, then I think it’s pretty clear what’s going to happen.
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Never rated him.
no point in saying shit like that. We all know he is a really world class striker. A real awe- inspiring character in the team this season.Shame. I grew to love him as arsenal man. This guy is someone who carried us into the champions league this season. We can’t replace him, like Cesc before him.
We’ll need someone else to take up the responsibility. Let’s just hope our next captain won’t leave the club after 1 year. Already I’m hearing Vermaelen is moving to Barcelona.
I think it was prob a joke.
Anyone else hoping some stupid Sp*rs fan has hacked into his website an it’s a hoax ? ( though don’t think there’d be a sp*rs fan smart enough)
Van persies mother is probably spanking him on the ass right now.
Bad persie, bad.
I respect his decision.
Farewell, Cunt..!
Me: honey, where do we keep the short gun?
Honey: it’s on the top shelf honey, why do you need it anyway?
Me: ah nothing much, just wanna shoot some guys kneecaps right off.
Honey: do it right honey, do it right.
Come on its not about winning trophies….Its always MONEY that matter to the modern footballer ! whats dutch for wanker ?
Not sure, but I think wanker is dutch..?
Martino
It’s ‘rukker’
Hate to see him leave. But remember, it’s about Arsenal, not Robin.
Greetings from Holland.
Go to a better club – with lots of other good players
YEP – that worked for Holland
GunnerHolland, are you any good in the no.10 position, and do you have your boots handy?
darren dein-massive cunt
media-cunts
gazidis-dopey cunt
hill wood – drunk bastard
RVP–nothing was critical in his statement for me except this
“I have grown up and became a man during my time with Arsenal FC. ”
well,fuck you a true captian and a real man will never do what you just did.if van persie really wants to play bad then i personally hope he goes to MAN CITY and rot there.
we have been through enough already.i hope cunts like him learn from gerrard or john terry as a matter of fact.
WENGER-massive respect to this man.i hope his loyalty to us pays off in the form of trophies more than any other person’s.i hope we put up a fucking statue when he leaves.what has he not done.he has given us the best gift ever.
1.new stadium
2.beautiful football
3.values
4.invincibles
i would probably go to an extent of saying he is the greatest man the club has ever graced.
oh and i personally would make BACARY SAGNA OUR FUCKING CAPTIAN.I DON’T SEE ANY OTHER PLAYER IN THE SQUAD WHO IS CAPABLE OF CAPTIANCY.
he has a statue
then fucking make another one.
In gold.
You’re an idiot.
Arteta for captain.
THERES ONLY ONE ARSENE WENGER.
THERE IS MORE THAN 1 WORLD CLASS STRIKER OUT THERE.
So out of my “huge respect” to RVP- FUCK OFF CUNT.
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Cygans left foot???????………more like cygans left penis.
Arsene is the problem?……….oh please TROLL OFF
Sagna would make a great captain, Koscielny would be a decent choice, most of the other candidates havent been at the club long enough(Mertesacker, Arteta). Or not enough tactical instinct (Song, (though i do highly rate him as our =2/3 best midfielder, secondly i think he wants to go to italy at some point in future) Verminator is more suited to the number 2 role. the rest are simply too young or inconsistant. Maybe Ros if has another good season
At the end of the day it’s all about money this I’m leavening for sporting reasons is a load of crap we wouldn’t offer him the 200 grand a week that other top clubs would because the board won’t break there pay structure at the club even tho were told there’s huge amounts of money at the club one plus side to all this tho is we still have the ox watch him fly next season and we will get jack Wiltshire back so stop crying over spilt milk we’ll cope with out him just watch
What frustrates me is that if Fabregas, Nasri et al had bothered to stay and we hadn’t had the nightmare engulfing us at the star of the season, we could have won/would definately have been closer to trophies last year.
I believe Man City buy a much to weaken their rivals than strengthen their own team, how many bloody to class international strikers do they need?
In my opinion, and this isn’t a knee jerk reaction but this is just further evidence that teams like Chelsea/Man City are killing the game.
People moan about ambition and the board saying “give him 250K bla bla bla” but Man C would simply offer him 500K per week, there is no way of competing on a financial level but montpellier are living proof we can do it our way.
Dissapointed in Van Persie, club legend or bit part player in a team that will be remembered as cunts, he doesn’t deserve the latter (although if he does end up at City, he will!)
It still astonishes me that so many arsenal “fans” still don’t know the name of our young English midfielder. It’s Jack Wilshere.
Does this mean Chamakh stays?
I cant rate you!
All those years collecting big wages whislt sat on his injured arse.
The game is just about who has the biggest wad now.
When Manc shitty “won” the league and then chelshit “won” the CL football, in my opinion died.
First time in 30 years i have not renewed my season ticket.
The game, for me is dead.
Oh and Robin,,, Fuck off you mercenary.
Hello Everyone
I’ve been silent because I’ve been speechless
Wow…. that is real harsh from our Captain.
I always knew him to have a single minded spirit but you cannot act in that manner to management… nor hang you dirty laundry in public.
A little Meddle
For the years we carried you…No Charge
For the times your were injured and we paid you… No Charge
For the one year out of eight you made us smile …..No Charge
And the total cost of our love…Is no Charge
Sell Him…. even to Man City, or to Juventus.
Arsenal is the SHIP… and the players are the passengers who embark and disembark. The SHIP is strong and made of metal iron and survives every storm. Its not ready yet for dry dock..
Sad Times
For standing by you when you were accused of rape in june 2005 – NO CHARGE!
What does loyalty mean to a person like robin? We fans will be hurt the most. players like maldini, del piero, totti, giggs will be sad because the age of mercenaries is upon us
…Robin van Persie
He leaves when he wants
Chim chimmeny Chim chimmeny chim chim charoo who needs Van Persie when we’ve got Giroud
Fuck.
..him
…with a machete
Don’t see the MAJOR fuss about Persie. We scored plenty of goals before he suddenly found fitness, and we will continue to do so, it’s been our defending that’s been an issue in recent years. We will certainly not have an issue replacing his goals next season, and we get rid of a certain amount of unrest, so let’s all calm down.
All said and done, he carried a huge amount of burden this season and did it without any complain(until now, any way). Many thanks to him for guaranteeing us another season in the CL and the benefits that come with it, he’s free to bugger off now.
Well not FREE to bugger off, let’s get at least 25 mill for him, yeah?
I never thought he would do that. I don’t understand what players want the club to do? Do they want £50 million signings?
Strange one, this announcement, coming just after AW affirmed the club’s commitment to ‘moving heaven and earth’ to keep him. 2 top signings already sealed and the transfer window still wide open and he says he’s not convinced about the club’s direction?
Why not just admit that the offer of greater loot (possibly oil money) has turned your sights elsewhere Robin? Us fans don’t mind honesty, it’s when you try to BS us that we get peeved with footballers.
Anyway, so long…don’t let the door hit ya….
I’d say his agent told him to come out with the statement so interested clubs will start bidding, it’s a load of bollox one good season in 8 and 7 with on off injurys and that’s the thanks you get, it should be good to see does wenger stick with his statement of he’s not leaving even if he dos’ent sign and van persies statement of I won’t join another English team, I would’ent put money on it
Couldn’t have put it better
I already said it in a post on that previous article, Arsène buying two class strikers was more than a hint that something like this might happen. It’s all too rational and logical.
It’s difficult to make an assessment of the whole situation though. On the one hand, it should be clear now to everyone that top players do not see Arsenal as a trophy winning team anymore and that Arsenal simply cannot compete with the few other teams when it comes to attracting top quality. As awful as it seems, let’s look at the good players we failed to keep: Cashley, Nasri, Fabregas, Clichy (Vieira) all won trophies when they left (some lucky okay but still). On the other hand, it’s sad to see yet another captain leave our team, I guess values such as class, integrity, loyalty etc. (values on which Arsenal is build) become less and less arguments to keep players.
Of course Arsenal won’t die but it’s just a sad sad day for our club. Let’s see how much we’ll get for him and move on.
Personally, I don’t believe a word of it.
“Out of respect to you guys” Robin? What the fuck? – at least be up front about it: you want to cash in. “Out of respect for us guys”, you might not try to totally undermine the manager and the club that stood by you as you leave.
I wish the guy well, but I can’t help feeling really disappointed with him and his sucky selfish attitude. So lets get what we can for him, and move on.
One things for sure though. Arsenal Forever,. With or without Robin
Well said
Great player, but just that. A player, not The Football Club.
COYG!
Really conflicted as to how to feel on this one. Is the statement a good thing, at least it ends all the speculation and total bollocks being talked.
On the other hand, it puts us in a really weak position to get a decent transfer fee. As with Fabregas, everyone now knows he definitely wants out, and we all know Wenger won’t force a player to stay against their will.
I really fucking hope he doesn’t go to Man City, let’s hope his move is abroad. I’ll wish him well, and remember what a brilliant season he had as captain. Can’t help but feel sad though, it still kinda feels like he has unfinished business with the Arsenal.
Sad times.
well said dave, i know if i was offered 2x my salary to do less work i would jump at it, but all the bullshit is what pisses me off. lets hope we can cash in our asset, and send him to the rich teams in russia or china!!
he wants a team with mental strength and ability. He has a talented team. But a team that can beat Barcelona one day and then lose a cup final to Championship side Birmingham City within 2 weeks. We can turn up with no character or desire some days. Ultimately those days cost us titles. RVP needs a side that wants to win every match every time. He is that kind of player. I can’t argue with his desire. Ultimately every player that has left the club has one something. Be it Eboue or Cashley or Cesc or $amir. They all left but they all won. We need to realise that. We aren’t the invincibles anymore. We’ve been torn apart. through the middle. and now right up front.
Good luck Robin. Best of luck and sincere thanks for the great season you gave us. We’ll miss you, that’s for sure.
he wants a team with mental strength and ability.
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No, he doesn’t. I guarantee you what Van Persie wants is a sugar daddy team. I’m sure all he said was, “hey are you guys going to invest money like City and Chelsea, because that’s what it takes to make a winning team these days.”
Gazidis said no, self-sustainable etc., and Robin said thank you very much, bye bye.
“Ultimately every player that has left the club has one something.”
we could have won something if he had stayed fit for more than one season! mostly the one we lost Dudu at Birmingham.
here’s one man who knows his PR. when Adebayor started mouthing about money, he was the first man to defend him openly telling the club to pay higher wages or ‘the club would lose its star players’. he retracted his statement the next day after realizing the negative mood from the fans towards Ade’s campaign.
and how everyone assumed he wanted the club to show him ambition full stop. who did he want signed up Messi and Ronaldo?
I liked Robin as an Arsenal player/ captain but i hope he leaves now so we can rebuild at once.
I FUCKING HATE ROBIN VAN FUCKING PERSIE.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No. Hate Nasrat if you wish, but so far RvP has shown more class than him. I am disappointed but we’ll all get over this.
No they dnt want 50 mil signings but also they don t want players like Ramsey in the first 11 all season!
You´re not gonna cry as much as Arsene, look what that fucker
has just done to his resale value !
Chamakh must be over the moon!
Buggerfuck!
Absolutely gutted!
Will he see out his contract and what does he think is wrong with the club’s strategy? Annoyingly we won’t get an answer for a few weeks yet.
I hope not, let’s get what we can from him now
Exactly. He wants to go? Fine. But at least help the club get every freaking extra penny we can for him.
Disappointing to see, especially after the faith Wenger and co. kept in him through every injury and setback.
He’s bottled the competition in the premier league. I’m guessing he goes abroad for a 50/50 toss-up for the Spanish title, rater than fight for or 5 clubs in England. I would hate to see him at Manche$ter or Cuntski anyway. Also, this might sound bitter but I wouldn’t mind one bit if he has the worst spells of his career after leaving either. Unlike Cesc and TH he doesn’t have a genuine reason to leave.
Just because he’s no resigning doesn’t necessarily mean he’s leaving this summer
I’d rather see him leave this summer than next year. This way we could get some cash.
will we spend it then?to buy a proper replacement? or to buy a kid?
If we buy two new ox’s then fine by me, bye bye unloyal jerk, cesc should still be ours too, hated watching him play so well at euros, why do they leave us
Well, thanks for sticking with us through all your injuries.
funny, he didn’t seem to mind how the club was being run then did he?
Well, his next club is a hell of a lot more ruthless. One long-ish injury = out of the team, loaned to Spurs, Wayne Bridged, released.
Fuck me,i waited 30mins thinking i was dreaming after reading what he said about us not trying to move forward
the cunt really never had us in mind before euros.au revoir robin.dont bloody care where you end up
You just managed to make me smile twice on such a day. Class act.
Well said. Fuck him. We roll on. He’s a cunt. End of story.
As disheartening and betrayed this situation may feel, you can’t call RvP a cunt and put him in the same category with Nasri and the likes. I don’t like this as much as you, but we the Gooners also need to stay classy and not lose our composure, for we are the fans of a world class club.
RVP is a cunt! like na$ri!
OMG IT WORKED?!! it seems as if i can.
Bugger.
Oh well. This has happened before and it will probably happen again. A real shame after the amount of faith Wenger has shown in him, but as someone approaching the tail end of his career he has to make what he thinks is the best choice for it.
Hopefully we either get a really good offer for him (or as good as it can be with only a year left) or he stays and helps us win the league.
*Weeps uncontrollably
I can’t say I’m suprised, just disappointed and I can certainly hold the weeps in unless he goes to join Nasri No-chin at City, that would be devastating.
We all wanted him to become a club great, an icon; but he’ll leave as just another player, and thats a huge shame.
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Of course you can. Years of injuries, unrelenting support from Wenger, we’ve been augmenting the squad well this summer.
Worse than Nasri in my eyes. He’ll no doubt leave with more class, but he owes the club a lot more than Nasri did when he left.
We don’t know the full story yet obviously, but so much for loyalty. This after he saw what a difference it is playing with a team that isn’t cohesive or geared around him during the Euros – where he looked nothing special.
This announcement shows zero respect for Arsenal or the fans despite what he claims.. It simply reduces his sale value as it’s public knowledge that he doesn’t want to stay.
We should make him stay for the year, and rot in the reserves.
Completely agree with everything you’ve said, to address it to the fans is just an effort to save face and a cheap one at that.
It’s a poor judgement call. I honestly can’t see him getting regularly in the City team ahead of the likes of Balotelli, Aguero, Tevez etc… he may win a trophy or two, but he might want to ask Hleb how that felt when he was at Barca or Lukaku at Chelsea last season…
Couldnt have put it bettter myself. ARSENAL FOREVER.
Of course you can blame him. Worse than Nasri in my eyes, as he owes the club a lot more than Nasri ever did after 7 years of unrelenting support through his injury ridden 20s.
We obviously don’t know the full story yet, but this announcement displays a massive LACK of respect to the club & fans as all it does is reduce his sale value. I had thought that his mediocre Euro performance when surrounded by a team that isn’t totally geared for him would show what a special place he had at Arsenal.
We should keep him for the year, and let him rot in the reserves.
(Sorry for the double-post – browser span out!)
well how do you know that wenger and gazidis are not in to win trophies? i mean what is the basic criteria to show that you intend to win trophies?maybe something like entering a decent team in every competition?
keeping an always injured player in the squad and reaffirming your faith in his talents can be translated as “not in to winning trophies”?
after diaby i guess rvp is the only arsenal player to receive most of his cheques on treatment table.
crying about ambitions of the club after one extra ordinary season (in messi-less era) sounds quite familiar.
yea he should not stay at arsenal.
Are you fucking kidding me? How on Earth does Van Persie have greater ambitions for Arsenal than Wenger? He scored his goals last season in a massive stadium that exists due to Wenger’s desire to make the club compete financially with the biggest clubs in the world. Wenger took us from midtable with a team of semi-fit footballers to one of the biggest clubs in world football. If Van Persie’s ambition amounts to “buying as many players as Man City, PSG, Chelsea, Anzhai, …,” then I hope to God he never comes back as manager, because he will bankrupt us.
Players’ careers are short, and it is of no interest to them if their club gambles its long-term existence on unsustainable finances. Managers who stay at clubs for 16 years, help to organise new youth systems, scouting networks, training grounds and stadiums care about the fucking health of the club. Wenger will have a legacy at Arsenal that will last for a long time, as his vision of the club includes the future existence of the thing. You may be grateful for that if you’re still around supporting the team in 30 years.
Totally agree.
He should leave. Players complain constantly of the trophies but do not stay to allow the club to have a core of world class players. Plus the fact that he was the captain is more aggravating
It’s like if I were complaining that that something at my job is not working the proper way, and I do shit to solve it.
……….I’d rather have a sustainable club (that has the chance of a title every year)……….than a lot of titles and then my club dissapear……anybody have heard about GLASGOW RANGERS?
Good riddance VP
As well as the money the club has invested in the medical facilities needed to keep patching him up!
Good comment Matt F. It is a sad day for football when players however good they are begin to believe they have the right to questioin the direction of a football club that has existed for over a 125yrs, means so much to an enlightened many past present and future
This time I REALLY dont want to listen to Adrian Durham on the way home.
nobody should want to listen to Adrian Durham of their own free will.
Maybe we can sign the Higgs boson to take his place.
The universe giveth and the universe taketh away.
Shamelessly nicked from Dara’s twitter…..
Are we talking football or metaphysics here, what a self-congratulatory unfunny comment. P.S How do you know?
Break a leg!
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Why don’t you also break a leg. Or is celebrating our past success good enough for you? The rest of us want the glory years back.
If he is putting the past behind us then so will we.
you fuck off, and when you get there fuck of some more
Sorry Chris but ‘the guy’ scored ‘an incredible number of goals’ for 1 season in 8! Count them, eight, EIGHT!!!! Seven years of injuries is what he will be remembered for not 1 incredible season. The same way Na$ri is remembered for only giving the Arsenal 6 months.
Fuck off and break a leg Chris.
Van persie, you sir are a VAGINA!!!!!.
Indefensible. Maybe he didn’t want a repeat of the Cesc saga of subterfuge and speculation, but no captain should do this to their team. He’s calling out not only the management, but everyone else at the Arsenal for being “unambitious.” Absolute bollocks.
I just wish that we could for once have captain like Stiven G or Totti who will stay with the club and live to become a legend… I realy feel sick, football is turning to a jocke…no respect, no love, no loyalty, just pure selfishness!!! He had one and a half good season and he’s now turning his back on us… He must realy love all those people who sing his name at every game!!! GUTTED
Or a captain like Alessandro del Piero, who stayed at Juve as they sank into Serie B…
My stomach just flipped.
Honestly feel sick.
Bollocks.
The trouble is, this statement doesn’t clarify anything for the ‘fans’ at all. We still don’t know the extent of his demands, even what they are regarding (more players? we’ve already signed two strikers) and I’m not sure what he expects the club to do.
Strip him of the captaincy. Sell him. I love RvP, but I love Arsenal more.
This is such a ridiculous thing to say when announcing he’s not renewing his contract:
“my goal has been to win trophies with the team and to bring the club back to its glory days”
Do that, or fuck off.
GUTTED!
he spent a lot of time on the treatment table…scored a lot of (important) goals
the “feelings” for the club ..i guess were strictly professional
…the difference between a legend and a good player
disappointed for arsene…rvp has let the man down
What do players want? They want to win.
I hate myself for saying this, but as the evidence mounts it becomes evident Cashley made the correct decision.
That said, I hope we throw everything off, go win everything and prove me wrong.
I see your point, but come on. We’ve just got a Euro 2012 semi finalist seasoned German international and the top scorer of the French division 1 winning team. Really couldn’t care less about him now, he could have become an Arsenal legend in the mould of Henry ect, but he’s chosen a nice fat pay check instead. Take away the captaincy, give it to Vermalean who’s proven to the fans that he truley cares about this club, and sell him. He’ll never replicate the form he’s had at Arsenal, and just like all the others he’ll regret it. Now all I care about is getting Songs contract finalised, as I’d bet my house Theo doesn’t sign now Robins gone.
Are you serious? If so, why don’t you follow RVP, Ca$hley, and Na$ri out the door.
RVP’s statement pretends to be about the fans, but it’s really all about him: him forcing his way out of the club, him putting himself in the shopping window, and him trying to dupe fans into not hating him.
The worst part of it is that by releasing this selfish drivel, he’s driven down his price tag and hurt the club not only on the pitch (with his absence) but financially as well.
So much for loyalty. But hey, if you’re looking for “smart” players instead of loyal ones, then follow RVP out the door.
Don’t be silly Cashley left for more cash
Strip him of the captaincy. Sell him. I love RvP, but I love Arsenal more.
This is such a ridiculous thing to say when announcing he’s not renewing his contract:
“my goal has been to win trophies with the team and to bring the club back to its glory days”
Do that, or fuck off.
I’m utterly sick of this happening to us, but I don’t blame Arsene or Arsenal. I blame modern football and its players.
Totally agree. I hate it when players go on about wanting to win trophies, yet aren’t prepared to hang around and help make it happen. I genuinely thought we had a legend on our hands, but instead we have a one-season wonder.
Exactly. Joining the side that’s already winning is much less work than taking the side that’s in third place or so to glory. And footballers dare talk about ambition!
RVP goes to Barça or City or wherever, he’ll never again score as many goals or be so important as he was for Arsenal. He’ll spend a lot of his time in the bench like Nasri. Very ambitious indeed.
So Wenger doesnt really think he will win trophies now, does he (based on what RvP says here) :
“a meeting about the club’s future strategy and their policy.
my goal has been to win trophies with the team and to bring the club back to its glory days.
it has again become clear to me that we in many aspects disagree on the way Arsenal FC should move forward.”
I said it above, and I’ll say it again, briefly:
Van Persie: Are you going to invest crazy money to make us successful?
Arsenal: No, we operate with a different model, which we hope will make us successful in the long run.
Van Persie: Long run? I’m going to be 40 soon.
Arsenal: True…
Van Persie: Bye!
Well you can read it how you like, but it could equally be that Robin wants the board to cave to Usmanov and buy the league with petrodollars, like City. In that case, he can fuck off.
In the end, players want the temporary glory, but the club will want the long term success. I personally want the club to outlive me, unlike Rangers.
So in that case, why are u mad at him?
I’m honestly tired of hating all our ex-players, they can’t all be cunts!
The simple fact is we can’t compete on & off the pitch, we don’t win trophies & we don’t pay top wages.
I honestly don’t begrudge him for not signing a new deal, I wouldn’t either.
He’s an excellent player, he doesn’t have too much longer at the top, he needs to do what he feels is right for himself & his family, as selfish as it sounds.
We need this vicious circle of losing our best players every season to stop & the only way is by winning trophies.
It’s on you Arsene.
Devastating news but this appears to be a common theme – ambitious players and the club have what must be huge differences in opinion on how the club should move forward. For someone like Robin it must have been massive.
Dont blame the player. Blame the board. Blame Gazidis. Blame Kroenke.
Yeah, what they should do is sign a couple of quality forwards nice and early in the transfer window. Oh hang on…. We are never going to match the spending of city ect. Never. So what’s the point blaming everyone for it? Look at the statement united released today, I never want that shadow hanging over our club, and with wenger and this current board it never will.
strange with all this ambitious player who want to leave we have won fuck all. if it was all about trophy maybe they could give a little more on the pitch and we would have won at least one …
flamini nasri ade casley left because someone can afford to pay them lot of more simple . cesc we all knew he was gone to leave one day to barca
exept casley none have become important to their new club winning something,
Flamini was different. Wenger didn’t think he was good enough with one season left on his contract, Mathieu proved him wrong and then decided to leave. I respect that more than Fabregas saying he always wanted to play for the team that all but gave up on him, after Wenger et al turn him into a world beater.
Arsenal have ONE move now to ensure that the club is not confined to being a selling club forever. Say to RVP “OK thanks for letting us know this early and thanks for your service. We look forward to one more season with you. Training starts in a few weeks. See you there.”
He has a CONTRACT. And if the figures of 20-30 million being spoken of are accurate then he is worth that for a season. Keep him. Simples.
but will his mind be on it, will hius heart be in it? If it’s not then what’s the point? and why should it be, if he’s already decided he’s going?
Doesn’t matter where his mind is if he is rotting in the reserves until a few months before his 30th birthday. He’ll have made his descision and be fucked for it.
Having said that, Torres went for 50 mill (regardless of the differences in contract situation, Torres is still shit), so if we can recoup anything in that region we should cash in asap and move on.
It would be great to do if the club could afford it
Sorry, have to disagree with you. The club has to sell him as he will be an unsettling influence. How can you have a supposed leader gain any respect from younger players when he tells them to do something, if they can turn around and point to the fact that he, himself, is not prepared to hang around for the rest of his playing career at the club.
It’ll be a patchy season at best from him, so now is the time to cash in and bring in someone who does want to be at the club.
You’re telling me that this wasn’t unsettling LAST year? It was very unsettling, yet he he still played well and helped us to third. So hold onto him this season. Simple. It’ll be clear that he’s leaving but he’ll play well again (1) because he wants to win and (2) to show other clubs that at 29 he’s still got it.
And if he refuses to play or plays like shite, then park his van prissy ass on the bench. This goes beyond RVP. We need to show that we’re not a feeder club. And that starts by holding onto him (or only selling for 30 million).
I agree just saying it would be great to let these players that sign contracts and want to leave early to rot in the reserves but it will never happen again with player power
The way he puts its like a girl breaking up with you. “Oh, you are great, but I have met someone else better.”
I wonder what he deems as “ambitious” Signing Afellay? signing the entire Dutch team?! Seriously, at this stage this “ambitions” seems bollocks. Right after we signed Giroud and Podolski. Sorry Robin, even Henry didn’t get to choose his team, and he is a bigger legend. Goodbye then Robin!
Right, so what does everyone make of Wenger’s comments given that RVP had already refused to sign a new contract? Do we really want to keep a player who doesn’t want to play for the club, and has (surely) been stripped of the captaincy? What a shit statement that would make.
Cunt.
FUCK LEGROVE..
I’m not quite sure what this has to do with the subject matter but I’ll agree all the same.
Thanks a bunch for the 18 months sterling service over the last 8 years. Get him sold sharpish to City for as much as possible and strengthen the team as soon as possible.
Are you fucking kidding me?? RVP is the best striker in the Premiership. You want to strengthen City even further? If he has to go – and Im of the opinion that we keep him for his final year – he’s not the fuck being sold to city. With or without Robin we are going for the title next season, and I refuse to accept that we are a feeder club to any club, never mind the reigning champions.
Get your priorities straight. This is a massive hurdle, sure, but lets not panic and make it the reason we go nine seasons without a trophy.
*recoils to bedroom for a quick cry*
You’re a deluded fuck.
I don’t blame him, we are not going to sign the midfield players we need to win a top trophy and he clearly wasn’t given those guarantees at his meeting with gazidis.
Anyone who seriously thinks this team with its current midfield can win the league is deluded.
As some said on here and were slaughtered for it, giroud and podolski where signed as his replacements. And the money from his sale will pay for them and not more new players.
Sad day for arsenal fans yet again.
So you can predict the future? Tell me who’s gonna win the Premier League next season?
definitely not arsenal
that’s all he needed to know. there’s something missing from this arsenal team. there is. we all know it. sometimes being a footballer is just a job for some of these players. they don’t need to win. they have no real desire to win. they just talk about it. hey’ve become good at that. look at Song for example. If he wanted to win, he would dig his heels in and defend. Instead he goes for glory all the time. I don’t blame Robin. Him and Cesc were the ones who actually wanted to win something. That’s why they’ve both realised and left
As someone said, somewhere: “No one is bigger than the club; Even Henry couldn’t demand who he wanted in the team, and he is a bigger legend than RvP will ever be”.
RvP doesn’t decide the team; and if he thinks it’s his right after giving us a year’s return on 8 years’ investment, he’s sadly mistaken.
Pathetic behavior from rvp. Lowers his market value considerably as well. The only good thing coming out of this is that any deal will be done soon.
Arsene Wenger is probably the most loyal man in football, alongside probably David Moyes. And like Moyes, he’s constantly losing the players he invests so much time and effort in.
RVP, PATHETIC!
No, it makes it clear to all and sundry that the bidding can now commence. He may as well have put a For Sale sign on his chest.
I wonder how many years moments like these make arsene age. He must be 134 by now…
How does it lower his value?
No comparison to the Cesc situation, in which there was only ever one buyer. In Van Persie’s case, all he’s done is open a bidding war. Let’s hope such a war pushes his price up.
Don’t need him.
We got as much as we needed out of him..
He’s 29.. 30.. getting old.. He’s on his way down anyways.
Dont need him for next season either. Let’s by one more key player and lets move on. Arsenal is BIGGER than van persie.. or any one player. GO GUNNERS!
I agree. I also think it’s terrible to treat a club and fans who have supported him through thick and thin like this. He comes across as if he’s bigger than the club. Awful really. My initial thoughts are “he’s lost the plot”.
So when we actually have a great chance of winning something he fucks off.
I really hope we win something this season just to shove it up his arse.
loyalty is obsolete these days
Self serving bollocks I’m afraid. Since when is it for players to dictate how the club operates? “I don’t want to go into any details, but unfortunately in this meeting it has again become clear to me that we in many aspects disagree on the way Arsenal FC should move forward” my hairy arse. Agree with it or disagree but to hide behind it as a reason for not signing a contract extension – having had the cheek to say that it wasn’t about money – is piss weak.
What a fucking shame.
Still, we’ve a new front line up for next season so if the club choose to let him rot in the reserves for the final year of his contract, making him worth paying fuck all next year, I’d have approximately no trouble with that at all
Well put.
One other thing that puzzles me about this is why it seems to happen at Arsenal more than any other Prem club. Bale, for example (who is, yes, massively overrated), could play for a better club, but chose to stay at hotspurm and just signed a lengthy contract. I’m sure Modric and Van Der Faart will do the same. I’m sure you could point to many other talented players in the Prem who choose to stay with their current club despite better opportunities elsewhere at clubs with more ambition / ability.
So why Arsenal?
[self-pitying moan]
Can’t see where he should go. City? Hopefully he has too much class, and with 4 strikers they are not really in a need. Juventus? Seria A, really? Barcelona? Messi and Villa, that should do it. Real Madrid? Benzema and Higuain… PSG? No prestige in winning the french league, when coming from TOP4 in PL.
This is in my opinion the most ODD decision, unless it’s money that drives him. As a captain and as a self-proclaimed loyal player — he should stay and fulfill his goal; winning trophies with The Arsenal.
Since we’re not going to get much for him anyway, I think we should sell him back to Feyenoord just to see what he does about it.
Sell him to the highest bidder. It’s really that simple.
Class?!? If he had class he wouldn’t have released this statement which has severely damaged the value of any transfer fee we might get for him.
Class? That went out the window with his statement mate.
I used to think he had class, but what he had was good media skills and his own ambition. RvP has just demonstrated his total lack of true class.
Well he can f**k off to wherever, and sell him quickly please. Hope you end up like Hleb ¤idiot¤
RVP leaving. Crushed. Wenger stays. Hope.
Thanks for the goals Persie, will always remember ones against Charlton & Everton
Only last night I stumbled upon this 12 min interview of Robin Van Persie with Geoff Shreeves from the end of the season…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Af5mcSFIYg&feature=related
Around the 5:10 mark, he starts discussing ex-arsenal players like Clichy, Nasri and Toure that have moved to City ….he justifies their moves there (in a way), stating “oh, but they’ll always be gunners deep down” or some such…. ..
Its uncomfortable.
Yea, that confirms pretty much that leaving to shitty is more than possible…and quite likely will happen, fukker
Was expected, or else h would have signed earlier.
And so I think that’s why Wenger signed Podolski and Giroud so quickly, he knew after RVP announcement it would be more difficult to sign players.
How much to expect from RVP transfer? Say about £20m/£25m. Hopefully we buy a SPIRITED midfielder with that, someone like Schweinsteiger would be awesome…
Eboue showing his passion for The Arsenal at least:
https://twitter.com/TheRealEboue/status/220555796348538881
Is it really his Twitter account ? I mean, some of his tweets are quite rough haha
Why do the committed ones have to be the shit ones?
Proberly because we over pay them and no one else wants them look what we have out on loan
But hen he says this
https://twitter.com/TheRealEboue/status/220586338972467201
This statement drives his price down enough that there is no point selling him. Only City would overpay for him and under no circumstances can we sell another player to City. Let him go thru another season without injury and prove himself to his suitors. Who knows, we may win something this year
Fucky McCuntfuck Shit Fuck
RVP leaving. Crushed. Wenger stays. Hope.
Thanks for the goals Persie, will always remember the ones against Charlton & Everton
Vermalen can take his place hehe
no thanks ,already rumour some club are interested in him give to wilshere,
Is anyone REALLY surprised? Let hope his next team stick by him and give him a new contract when hes out injured…oh wait…they wont will they? Fool
“@Persie_Official why why why ! Why have you left wenger to suffer another loss again. You would never be the same if you leave. Stay pls”
- Eboue on Twitter.
One of the players that we obviously should have kept. Eboue became a legend in my books with this tweet.
But then
https://twitter.com/TheRealEboue/status/220586338972467201
“Come 2 think of it. When I left ,I won a trophy ,when Fab left he won a trophy, when henry left ,he won . So maybe @Persie_Official is right”
Assuming this is for real, and not some charade like the one Rooney’s agent played early last season, I wonder who becomes captain next?
Arteta, Verminator, Schzesnzey all come to mind.
Verminator
Yep!
He is already vice captain. However, on current form he will be off at the end of next season after stating how much he loves the Arsenal and have us in his heart
Should make Chamakh captain, then he’ll leave soon.
It’s the kiss of death
Arteta
Rvp aside. What the fuck is gazidis doing on hols at this time of year?!
He’s obviously violating his wife in anger right now.
Pussy!!!!!!!, get back here
Is RvP seriously trying to excuse himself by saying that he has greater ambition for Arsenal than does Wenger? In the same statement he claims to be respectful towards Wenger, and yet this is about as disrespectful towards Wenger as an Arsenal player can be.
One season as captain and star player, and he thinks he has the right to disrespect the greatest, most loyal manager this club has ever had? Fuck right off, Robin. If you want to win trophies and/or earn more elsewhere, just fucking say it. Don’t give us insulting, martyristic bullshit like this.
Not really sure if I want to have him in the club this year if he wants to leave. Better to sell him off and get some money for him, than using a player that is not fully commited to the club anymore. Really disapointed, though, after all the club have done for him. Always stood by his side when he was injured.
Who’s talking about using him? Let him rot in the reserves.. Give him a year to contemplate his stupidity….
So upset
If you go to Barca/Madrid/Inter/Milan etc I will begrudgingly accept it and begin to move on.
If you go to Citeh, then frankly Robin, you can stick your chocolate leg where it doesn’t belong.
Dirty cash I want you, Dirty cash I need you, Woah…
This stinks I feel sick to my stomach . Same reasons players like vieira nasri fabregas Henry gave for wanting to move on. The club have to shoulder some responsibility for these players feeling the need to move on. We are simply not competitive any more
I am sick of this so called ambitions?! We should have showed ambition when he was crocked and sold him off. We as fans can feel the pain. I wonder how Wenger must feel like. Stood by a player and defending his decision against people who demand to remove a crocked player, only to have that player after 18 months of good form, turn around and say “nay, you are not ambitious enough, I am off,” practically jumping ship to cash in on his form.
I really feel sorry for Wenger. How many times since the Invincibles have Wenger being screwed by players to whom he has shown loyalty. I expect the next 2 players to screw Wenger now to be Song and Walcott. Again, if they do, this has shown that loyalty to players count for shit nowadays.
This for me is the final nail in the coffin of player loyalty. The days of TA telling to club just pay me what you think I’m worth are dead and gone.
Even someone who ended up a hate figure in Spider O’Leary, give me him over these arrogant overpaid wank stains any day of the week.
God I hope Diaby doesn’t pull this same shit!!!
Hope he goes to shitty and gets injured breaking na$ris legs
i had a feeling this would happen when he insisted no matter what happens during the rest of his career he would always be a Gunner when he collected the Footballer of the Year award
anyway think im gonna cry
I’m not really bothered by this to be honest. Robin is perfectly within his right to believe that after one healthy season he’s qualified to determine the proper way for Arsenal Football Club to move forward. I don’t agree.
If he really wanted to win trophies for the club he’s stay with the club and work towards that goal. He wants to win trophies for himself. Nothing wrong with that but it’s fairly hollow to hide behind a love of the club when your actions describe your real feelings.
We can sell him for a jack load of cash which is my preference. Gotta clear bad vibes from the dressing room and the squad mentality. If we keep him and he picks up an injury going into his 30th birthday then his tune may change but as of this moment he’s no longer a team leader.
If we hadn’t already acquired Podolski and Giroud then I might be nervous but as things sit I’m feeling calm about it. On the positive side I’m glad this is out now so we can get on with it. Pick a new captain and we’ll hit this season rolling.
Personally I’d select Arteta to lead the side but I know lots of folks favor Vermaelen but to each his own.
Peace Gunners… all will be well.
Please dont mention jack and selling in the same sentence.I wouldn’t be able to bear that.
thank you finally someone else, I wanted with all my heart for Robin to stay but it appears that wont be happening.
personally I think he just worked really well in our system, we have a team that supplied him super well and it really played a huge part in his goal tally.
so sell him, get the 25 mil (at least, there is no way he’s worth less than nasri) and buy us somebody to celebrate, if that money isn’t reinvested immediately then there’s going to be quite a bit of fan discontent.
Haha, just kidding. I’ll pen a new deal next week.
You won’t be able to pen anything after i’ve cut your arms and legs off, cunt!
In doing this he is driving down the fee we can get for him. If he wants a decent contract in a year he will have to have another fantastic season. I say make him stay and then he can do one in a year.
If he sulks and has a crap season he won’t earn much anywhere.
Difficult to see how he can ever play for us again.
Apart from having totally dissed the manager, he is unlikely to be well received by the fans, and not unreasonably.I’d say.
Hope he goes to man shitty and gets injured breaking na$ris legs
HE SIGNS WHEN HE WANTS!!
Oh, wait..
Well obviously gutted but we have to look at this carefully.
Those people slamming RVP should consider that he is human and also has ambitions like the rest of us. If he thinks Arsenal are not ambitious then I’m sorry but that’s an indictment on the club.
Fans who are blaming super rich sugar daddies should perhaps reconsider that if the invisible team played in the current league, we would win the league regardless of how much any other club spends on buying players.
People should remember he was around with the invisible team so he knows what its like to be with a solid winning team. I’m sorry to say but this current squad is just not good enough.
Mask it however we want but we all know that it’s really worrying that our top players are leaving our club because they don’t feel they have the opportunity to win trophies and its making us the laughing stock of football now.
Anyway, Arsenal for life! Life goes on I suppose.
Invincible
He’s one of them now. Fuck him.
Fuck me. Well thanks a fucking bunch Robin.
It’s strange, I didn’t think I would find it surprising but I’m totally stunned by this.
If he loves the fans he at least shouldn’t go to fucking City. Or any other English club for that matter.
Bollocks. He’d better be pulling a fucking Rooney, and end up signing or…
…fuck.
I’ve only been an arsenal fan for about 5 years, so I never saw the invincibles, nor Henry except for the season before he was sold to barcelona, and RVP was the closest thing I had to a player I loved.
I’m heartbroken, both for the fact that he’s leaving when he really has no ability to claim it’s the right decision, and that I’m still not going to have a player I can fondly remember in the ways people talk about Henry, Pires, and Bergkamp.
” Bollocks. He’d better be pulling a fucking Rooney, and end up signing … ”
If he does do what the Spud-faced freak did . . . can we sing :-
‘ Rooney van Persie ! ! ! ! ‘ . . . . ?
I personally feel this is a great lack of respect by RVP. Surely most of players would make a statement on the club website? It makes me doubt he his “love” for the club. If only we could find players of his quality that love the club like us fans do.
Also I have a feeling all of the boo boys will come out. We have survived this with Henry, viera
No, we have not. Since we started selling our best players (Viera, Henry, Fab and now RVP) we have been battling for topp-4 instead of winning things.
We can feel that Cashley, Nasri, RVP, etc. are cunts but we also have to ask ourselves why only our players want to leave?
Why doesnt Chelsea, United, Liverpool have the same problem?
I hardly think we should be modelling ourselves on Liverpool’s “successes”…
it’s funny that you included liverpool.
as shit as this situation is, you can always take comfort that liverpool is shittier
Ronaldo. Torres. Xavi Alonso.
Oh, so now Van Persie is in the board of directors and needs to be asked on strategy for moving the club forward? He had one good season and already his head is like a piñata.
Man, this hurts.
Robin is that a come-get-me message for that “club” that signs cunts every year?
How could you make the Arsenal and the management so cheap and stupid with those comments of yours? For me it is goodbye to Robin. Thanks for your service to the Arsenal for the past 8years. We are the Arsenal!! You can’t take us to ransom ok!
Its obviously we haven’t strengthened in key areas so he’s off. I don’t blame him but we’ll be OK I think..
we signed 2 proven class strikers, which was the only key area we needed investment.
sure we had a shit defensive record, but how many times did we have a first choice starting back 4? I can probably count it between my 2 hands
If RVP wants to go we should sell him NOW, get £35 mil and use it to buy M’Vila and maybe another defender with the money, switch to 4-4-2 with Podolski and Giroud playing together up front. If we sell Bendtner, Chamakh and Park we might be able to buy another decent striker as well.
35M? Did you read the statement, or consider his age and history?
35 million for a player with that kind of injury history? Dude I wouldn’t do it in football manager, you’d have to find someone amazingly rich and amazingly stupid.
@mmiki “35 million for a player with that kind of injury history? Dude I wouldn’t do it in football manager, you’d have to find someone amazingly rich and amazingly stupid.”
Thats what the stupid cunts at Man Shitty are for.
SpackTard,
We sell him to Man City, they improve. They are already champions. They have every chance of winning again next season as it is. They will have a good run at the CL next year. They have already proven they can win the FA Cup. And you think we should sell him to them?
They are now aware that he has no intention of staying at Arsenal. They will not jump in with a truckload of cash. If they want him they will wait til the end of August, seeing what is offered to/for him by other clubs, and then offer him/us just a little more. We will not make silly money for him.
If we want to keep him, we just have to say so and it happens (that’s what contracts are for). We will refuse to listen to any bids and that is the end of his transfer business until next summer. He may feel upset about it, but he knows that if we make him stay then he must replicate last season’s form this season (especially as he has shown people he can’t play like he does for Arsenal when he plays in another team i.e. Netherlands). He also knows that an injury this season could end his dreams of big money and multiple trophies.
Wenger must be strong. The board must be strong. We keep him. We strip his captaincy. We play him whenever we choose. Once we accept that we are getting nothing for him then we can’t lose anything more, but Van Persie can. The risks are all his. He will know it. He will put in the work. If he gets injured…. Hard Luck Van Persie, you should have thought about what you were doing more carefully.
I hope he goes to City, suffers a massive dip in form and then ends up back in Eredivisie within 2 years. Great player for 18 months but no one man is bigger than the club.
I feel more than a little aggrieved that he has decided to show very little loyalty to a club that basically paid for him to sit around his mansion jerking off for 6 out of 8 years.
One wonders what impact this will have on the Walcott Situation?
If he goes to £iteh I will fuckin tear up my season ticket application and burn every Arsenal shirt I have. I’m sick of this shit and I’m sick of being let down
He played many tournaments for Holland without winning shit, he can retire and call it a day but no, we put up with his injuries for 7yrs, and what do we get from his selfish arse?
Why can’t he resign from the National team?
It’s worth saying that this is far worse than what Nasri, Cesc and Adebayor did. He did this as a reaction to Wenger’s comments that he would keep him. He has basically said “fuck you, I’ll make the fans hate me, so you have to sell me.”
Cunt. The cuntiest of the lot. My favourite player for many years. Good bye. You can help win us trophies and bring back the glory days from your shiny new illegally-run money machine.
Wenger should keep him and play him. He should issue a statement saying that van Persie will remain an Arsenal player until next summer, and that he will put maximum effort into trying to win trophies with us, as he has always said he wanted to do, and he should be sure to say “I am sure van Persie will to confirm that”. He should also remind the Arsenal fans should respect the decisions made by all parties and get behind the team and Robin in this, his last season. Lastly he should let it be known that he has decided that the captaincy should go to a “younger man” this season. (Yes, I know, catty of me)
If the fans want to protest at how RVP has let them down then it should not involve booing. Better would be to remain silent when his name is called, and not sing his songs any more. Don’t be against him, just let him know by our silent acceptance of him that he has let us down. Oh, and cheer the rest of our team all the more strongly.
Van Persie cannot come out and say “No, I will not make the effort” because he will be in the shop window, possibly his last shop window, and will not want to fuck it up by being a twunt. He must try hard. He must stay fit. If not then he pays the price.
Whether Arsene asks Frimpong to “Frimpong” him on the last day of the season is up to him, but I suspect he’s a bit too soft-hearted for that. Of course, if RVP signs a pre-contract withe any of our EPL rivals then a Frimponging would be obligatory as the official Arsenal goodbye to him.
Am I a bad person for suggesting we put all the pressure right on RVPs shoulders as he has deliberately slammed the door in our faces, even though we had jst bought him two lovely shiny new Internationals as a present?.
Disappointing. He had the chance to help the team grow into winners again and become a legend, in the process but there you are.
Players join, players leave. The Arse will always be there.
If he goes to Man City, I’m going to address him as RCP instead of RVP. I don’t think I need to say what the “C” stands for.
Though im not quite on that method of thought just yet, doesn’t RVC have a bit more flow?
Robin Van Cunt
Just ruined my fucking day.
Yes I’m a bit surprised to hear this. But honestly not that bothered. I don’t want anyone at our club that doesn’t want to play for us no matter who it is. What view it is that he doesn’t share with wenger is anyone’s guess. Perhaps he thinks injury plagued players should be flogged after 3 months out… His debt is far from repayed in my opinion!
No statue for you, Robin.
Just let him rot in the reserves.
Anyone but those fuckbags city please. i will lose faith if he fucks off to the middle eastlands and we officially become their feeder club.
Already over him.
RVP – The club has to show me it has the ambition to win titles.
Arsenal FC – We just signed the leading scorer from the French league and the guy who led the German league in scoring two seasons ago.
RVP – The club has no ambition. I’m leaving.
Me – Someone’s full of shit and it’s not the club.
Well said.
Aparently Arsenal had no idea this was going on his site, they are thinking about making a statement.
I quote RVP “I love this club, I’m a gunner” fuck off you clearly have no respect to the club or you would have told them.
Wish I could honestly say I’m remotely surprised by this. RVP, you’re not the manager, perhaps you could have studied for your coaching badges or taken some lessons in how to be classy from D Berg all those times you were injured. No respect. Goodbye.
How is the club supposed to be run?
Like Man City? Despite all their spending, they still needed a Joey Barton red card and some injury time luck to win their title.
Like Man United? The team who just released IPO documents detailing how they spent over £500M servicing approximately £430M of original debt they loaded on the club and now want to issue new stock (which can’t vote and doesn’t guarantee a dividend) to pay for said debt???
Sorry. Bit this is complete and utter bull shit. We’ve operated as a business should. We’ve made early signings. We’re clearing out non-performers.
This makes zero sense.
It may sound a little melodramatic but it’s fair to say that football is dead, he’s as big a coward as his chinless friend and he’s welcome to go anywhere he likes, he cannot escape the Verminator. I thought it was possible to compete with the moneymen, I was wrong. We’re stuck in 4th until this shit-infested dying cow of a sport is sorted out.
Arsenal stuck with him through all those injures then RVP says the club can’t win trophies (despite two top class signings) and that he won’t sign a new contract (driving sale price down).
Truly disgraceful behavior from another mercenary, clearly throwing Arsenal and Wenger under a bus. He can piss off, will never be an Arsenal legend.
Height of arrogance.
Appointing RVP the captain was a wrong move by Wenger. If Arsenal are to ever retain such talents again, the criteria for captaincy should be loyalty rather than number of goals in a season. There is more to football than how many passes someone has completed.
Look at Barcelona and Xavi for example. Puyol is captain despite extraordinary record by xavi.
If we don’t get rid of Chamakh, Bendtner and the lot any chance we can make them the new joint captain so they can bugger off next year?
Please don’t turn on RvP. He had an amazing season and is a brilliant player. To not see this coming, one had to have had blinders on. Or be the Arsenal board.
Don’t worry, the board are preparing to put all the years we’ve made the Champions League up in the ring around the ground … because they’re all trophy years!
Bit depressing, that we can’t keep our best players anymore. People can whine all they like about sugar-daddies, but the sad reality is that Arsenal is currently being run as a business, rather than a football club. And the players know it, which is why the better quality ones are all edging, slowly but surely, towards the exit.
But who cares, when we’re so financially sound, right?
Rangers, Leeds. Portsmouth, Southampton, Cardiff etc were all run like “football clubs” and look what happened to them. While there is big money in the game you need to be careful rather than chasing the dream by throwing all your money at it, hence the business model.
A football club is a business. The clue, if you search hard enough for it, is that football clubs can go bankrupt.
Looking forward to what classy response the club will put together. If RvP wants to burn bridges, he should have to face the Arsenal PR machine in full force. Embarrass the twat.
RvP,
Thank you for all that you have done for this club. You single handedly carried us to third place this season. You have provided me with an immeasurable amount of excitement during your time with the club. I wish you well if you do indeed leave the club but know that I can no longer hold you in the same regard as someone such as Totti, DeRoss, or Gerrard any longer. One club men are such a rarity and even though we werent your first club you were approaching this status with Arsenal fans.
Sincerely,
Save 75 cents.
So I guess now we do need Batman…
Batman’s coming to cinemas July 20th.im afraid he’ll be busy counting the box office rather than discussing a contract with Arsenal
Well then maybe Catwoman.. As long it’s not that Penguin Usmanov, we don’t need him.
yeh, michelle pfeiffer as catwoman, in her skin tight suit, she doesnt need to play, just do a lot of warming up!!
all of a sudden im not so pissed off by this mercenary bollocks
And all the crap about Arsenal showing loyalty to him when he was injured is just that – crap. They kept him on the books because he’s very good, and he scores lots of goals. Only reason. Ever noticed how they’re quite happy to get rid of players that don’t make the grade? Where’s the loyalty there? It’s not like the club adopts and feeds orphans. It acts in its own interests, and so do the players.
People who buy the shit from players about “being a true Gooner” are largely just idiots.
How many goals did Ramsey, Rosicky, Diaby, and Eduardo score when they were on the injury table?
Wenger keeps his faith where the talent is. I admire him for that. I really wish his faith was repaid sometimes.
Were they under contract?
And yes, he keeps faith where the talent is. That’s the whole point – he’s looking after the club’s interests. He’s not keeping shit players on the books out of sympathy or loyalty, like some sort of Mother Theresa figure.
Also, fuck you.
Ha
This is bad news but not unexpected!
But Rooney did it & so did Tevez, just give him an offer he can’t refuse! Simple.
We all know van Persie is talented. However, and despite his “kind” words, he seems to have forgotten who paid him all the time he spent injured and/or learning his craft. He should be forced to see out his contract. He can be part of a new striker rotation. By this time next year he’ll be 30 and ready for Anzhi or exile with Drogba and Anelka. He’ll then tell us it was always his dream to win the Russian or Chinese leagues and have his kids experience new cultures. It’s been nice knowin’ ya RVP.
No player is bigger than the club- NO PLAYER
Darren Dein strikes again
DD – The vampire who stalks the Arsenal.
The vampire who sucks on the Arse
And some people want his dad back at the club……….. their all Judas cunts and can fuck right off!
van persie…song and walcott… are the only ones who remain from the unconvincables…..and therein lies the problem as to why we didnt win anything for the last 7 years….just when they turn good they are turned by money
It is the content of his statement, rather than him moving on which is so worrying. Expect Song and Walcott to follow suit. Where is our club going?
rvp let every arsenal fan down,great player but without loyalty and respect to the club and mr. wenger.I’m also bored with many ex arsenal players always putting the blame on everybody else than themselves for not winning trophies,maybe if they tried more and led by example they could have won something.bye bye rvp you’re soon to be forgotten…
never thought robin would break my heart.. no such thing as an arsenal man anymore is there. i miss tony adams and co even more now.
after all the shit we’ve been through this summer, i cant believe he didnt renew his contract. its pretty selfish to be honest, if its not about the money, then apparently its about the trophies – which he doesnt think we can win, well im sorry he feels that way, should’ve scored that chip against AC Milan at the emirates then.
end of the day, as gutted as i am seeing him not renew, its just more painful because it just sends a bad message to the rest of our players, especially the kids that looked up to him. i wonder what he’ll tell them face to face, “sorry [enter player name], i need to win trophies and you’re not good enough” i mean who is he kidding. if he’s looking to follow nasri’s footsteps, then yes, he won a trophy by the skin of his teeth and by sitting on the bench for 3/4 of the season.. really deserved.. not.
he is arsenal they said, but the euros showed he is nothing without arsenal too.
love(d) the man, and would’ve even been happy if he left for the money, but saying the club isnt good enough, especially with our new boys pod and giroud, he can do one.
ps. if this turns out to be a rooney type fiasco and turns out to be some kind of negotiation tac for more dosh.. it would be a new low for an arsenal player.
Exactly what i was thinking.I would go from loving him to tolerating if he copied Rooney’s tactics.
may as well sell him, unfortunately. not just to get the money (can we afford not to?) but too much danger of fans booing him during matches.
He should apply for a Spanish passport too if he wants to join a side winning trophies.
Gutted but no player is bigger than the club. We will move on, there will be other world class players to wear the famous red and white.
AFC forever.
My next captain? Either Vermaelen or Sagna.
Vermaelen. Hopefully they’ll line up on opposite sides in the near future, I don’t think Vermaelen takes treachery so well.
My next captain is Koscielny.
At least he has put his cards on the table and is no conniving piece of shit like Nas£i. But please not to Man City then I will have to hate him.
Well gudluck RVP and gudluck ARSENAL
Can’t help but despise the bullshit that is on his statement. Contract talks began after the season ended, but we saw pictures that showed him talking to City executives 3/4 during the season.
God I fucking hate that club.
I think this could be the straw for Wenger. He must be so disillusioned now, no way he’ll stay on past his 2 year contract. The next few years are going to be very uncertain.
V P is not serz!! Out of respect for who that u went and update this on ur website … Ur job is nt to tell Arsenal how to run the club but to play football and get paid for it!! I hope the new club will have the patience Mr Wengd had for u when u had injuries!! Good luck
Van Persie is great and all. For me, I’d love for him to stay one more year. He isn’t getting younger and if he stays he put pressure on podolski and giroud to perform, both who I believe will do enough and more, once Van Persie leaves.
I hope the club grow some balls and put out a statement tonight that rvp is no longer thr club captain and is available to the first man who rocks up with 25m. they can have his mri scans xrays and medical notes also. would love ifc wenger stjck himin the reserves. there will always be the arsenal.
They’ll need a truck just for moving his medical paperwork.
Amidst all the rights and wrongs of RVP and the club’s policies, at the end of the day, my heart goes out to Wenger.
Above any world class player we’ve ever had (except maybe Henry), RVP is the player he is today because of Wenger. Even Feyenoord gave up on this troubled youngster. Only Wenger’s unwavering belief could get a player to this level despite so many injury setbacks. Yet, he’s been kicked square in the balls yet again.
Spot fuckin on mate.
I must say I agree. Would love it if there was a way we could let Wenger know that we’re behind him 100% .I’m not up to date on the twitter/ facebook front, but could someone start a nice hashtag or something. This man has stood behind his mercenary players, his ageing board- and sure he’s made his mistakes, but now is the time to prove our own unwaivering loyalty toward club and manager.
I’m a graphic designer in Sydney. I nominate my services to making the guy a nice book, or something anything! If you can think of something I’m for this in a really big way.
Anyone keen?
Let’s do this. We’re gunners, not pussies who sob but a club that has true values, that respects those who are in service to us.
I’m sorry now I’m going to get quite annoying. Is there a forum or something where we can start putting something together?
Has been a great player and bit of a slap in the chops after Arsenal stuck by him as the conventional wisdom was he was too fragile and injury prone. Don’t buy the statement in the slightest – think it’s a case of one last big pay day and possible trophies. Can’t blame him if he thinks he has better chance of winning elsewhere but if it’s City then it’s money and a probable place on the bench for half the season. Sad state of affairs but as Blogs said – such is the way of modern footballers. He had a brilliant season but he’s not as irreplaceable as Cesc in my book.
On one hand, it would be great to know the specifics of what was said/not said to make him feel this way. But on the other hand, this sounds like a load of horseshit.
Flog his arse ASAP. He’ll be knacked by Xmas anyway.
They are all assholes, aren’t they? NEVER get a shirt with a name on the back.
My sons last two jerseys had fabergas and van persie he can have a fucking blank one this season
Sell him on, we’d be lucky to get £30m for him now. Confront Walcott immediately with a pen and say sign now or you’ll be out on your fucking ear with Robin. Show loyalty to players who show us some loyalty, all of the other players who show no loyalty should expect NO loyalty from the only club that would stick by them at all times when clubs they wish to play for would have turfed them out a long time ago. If Robin did make this decision and the board already know this, then I seriously hope they have already agreed a high fee to offload him to and it better not be City.
Jesus
Another one to add to the list of total cunts who had one good season and fucked off
A year in the reserves in the final year of his contract in the prime of his career would be the best.
Meet Arsene’s wrath!
All he wants to do as a player is win trophies, he believes that he can’t do this with arsenal and it’s spending policy, nasri left and won the league, despite what we think of him he’s won a trophy.
Can’t beleive the abuse that rvp is taking for wanting to win. It comes down to, do you believe what rvp says or what gazidis will say.
Wenger is sadly caught in the middle yet again while gazidis Is on holiday and left to take the flack.
Of course he will get more money at city that’s a by product of signing for them, but he will also join a club that are capable of winning top trophies and rvp who probably knows a lot more about the direction that arsenal are taking believes we are not in that position.
We have rvp walcot and song up fro contract renewals with several other players futures not sorted like bentner etc and the man who negotiates these deals is on holiday for two weeks.
Who next walcot more than likely, then who jack? It just sends out all the wrong signals for payers there now and those to come in the future. Rvp may be past his best who knows but without doubt he was out best player last season and cesc was before him as was nasri for half a season until tapped up by city.
As arsene himself said you can’t be considered ambitious if you sell your best players year after year.
You guys really are in denial!
Everything Voldermort wrote is spot on, RVP will leave, we’ll all call him cunts & at his new club, he’ll win a trophy and we’ll still be bitter!
The following season the same scenario plays out with Vermaelen,etc and we’ll call him names too.
I guess when Wilshere decides to leave too, maybe then we’ll open our eyes to the reality of the situation.
This shit has to stop.
oh common, all this open your eyes rubbish…It was confirmed by the club that Gazidis never went for holidays, wasn’t it? So who’s twisting reality just to bash the Arsenal officials yet again?
vPersie thinks he knows what’s best for the club strategically? I don’t want to repeat everything that has been said here, but he had 1 1/2 admittedly brilliant seasons and thinks he’s in a position now make demands. Well, he’s fucking not. He always seemed like a decent, humble lad to me and although I’m usually not all for judging someone on single events, especially such as statements on the internet, I’m deeply disappointed by him. And in this case, the fans have every right to call him names whether it helps or not. at least you can let off some steam
i would have won the title too with city if they sign me but then i m shit player ,like nasri.
nasri two face cunt who have done four good month with us and one for city .if this player who are leaving are so good and want so much trophy why havent win anything when they were actually playing for us.
THE ACTUAL FACT: nothing to do with trophy just ££££££££££.this player arent good enough or dont give enough on the pitch to win us one they take the easy road for self gloryfication and the fat extra £ rather to do the extra work here at arsenal
you could support city if you want trophy too,you could comeback here and say you done the right move because your team won a trophy.
I contemplated my thoughts early in the close of how I’d feel if this had happened and to be honest today Robin has just become another cunt who gets paid far too much for doing something the regular man would probably do for nothing. Oh well. Fuck him.
Up the Gunners….
So I wonder how this is going to affect Walcott’s contract negotiations?
Oh, Theo is off, no doubt at all, Dein is his agent as well. How can one man love Arsenal so much, and his son hate it just as much? Crazy.
Like father like son. DD senior made £75m by being one of the first to sell out to the fat bastard of dubious character. Juniors just a leech sucking the life blood out of the club and profiteering. Must work for the spuds.
I know we here this kind of “shit” all the time…
Personally I believe what he says. I totally did not with Nasri and Fabregas. A top top player who , lets be honest, is the reason we are playing CL next season. His idea has got to be playing with 10 other players that are either trying or not deadwood.
I see comments about cash in and at least we will get some cash! The cash goes straight towards enlarging the bottom line of our US owners. We make profits on transfers every season because we never reinvest. Spare me the crap about wages have to be considered. Its not like other clubs are paying less than us in lieu of big transfer fees.
All I hope for is that RVP tells us why he disagrees with where the club is going so we can expose our owners/board for the wanders they are. Forget about your respect for Mr. Wenger mate. Think about your love for the Arsenal and sill the beans!
you’ve got that wrong mate, there have been no dividends to shareholders for years. everything arsenal earns is reinvested, either in facilities, debt repayments, player purchases, wages, etc.
Fuck my life. I think this might finally be the year we miss out on the Champions League. I’m so depressed right now. Fuck. Damn. Balls. I hate football. Fuck my life.
Fuck him. Roll on the arse.
Fair Enough………..thank you for the great one and a half years, and now that is has been made clear, lets all move on, and get the deal done……….45 million is the price, let the bidding begin.
Isn’t it Ironic, RvP wants the club to start spunking £50m a season on players, if they did that then he’d still be an immature nobody on the left wing at Feyenoord.
One of the greatest comments i’ve ever read.
Every cloud has a silver lining……..no longer in the shadow of RVP, we may see the real Chamakh.
I’m joking of course.
The Arsenal will be stronger for this. New captain in midfield and a galvanised “we’ll show those deserting cunts” squad.
If he is going, then get him out the door now. Fuck this waiting for two weeks.
New captain in midfield? How this ship is going very soon it will be Ramsey cos everbody else will leave!
What’s the French for deja vu as that’s what Wenger must be feelin.He nursed little bob cratchett back to health everytime he broke down, stuck by him only to see a consistent 18 months of top quality end like this. OK lets sell him and get some more good players in RVP for Benzema and Kaka anyone.
How does 2 quality signings up front and a LANS in Wilshire show anything but real promise that we can return to the glory days. RVP has become so jaded he can’t think straight. The argument that this is down to a lack of ambition on the club’s part would have been valid a year ago, but now it’s complete hogwash in lieu of our transfer dealings. If he can’t cite specifics then this “explanation”, if you can call it that, is rather pointless.
Maybe he didnt fancy the nigeria trip. citeh are probably going somewhere seriously fancy.
They’re both going to Beijing. Either way, I’ll see him. Got a message for the lad?
I like the fact that the Arsenal website has no mention of it but instead ‘confirms’ that it is ‘official’ that Podolski arrives at Arsenal…cancel the statue.
Next captain should be Bac.
No. I want Sagna to stay!
let’s just take a back seat and sees how it plays out
Nice chess move… Putting Arsenal in a position to either sell him now and get some serious cash in, or keep him in an impossible context, and get nothing from his transfer in one year from now.
This guy is well-advised.
if thats his plan, then hes well advised on how to be a cock. that shows no respect to your club and if it is the case, sell him and fast.
Maybe he knows more then you do? Maybe he s sick playing with Ramsey in first 11. Maybe you shpuld blame Arsenal board also!
Do you see Rooney telling Utd what direction the club has to take? No. When Rooney wanted to leave, he said he wasn’t sure of Utds future and direction. As soon as he was offered more money, he took it and shut up cus it’s all he really cared about.. And it’s the same here. We offer him £250k a week and guarantee he doesn’t leave, but now tbh I hope he does. If he wanted more money, should’ve said so. But when you disrespect the club, you’re finished – and this is why I’ll never have respect for man city due to letting Tevez play even after his dissent. ps. I bet Ramsey has a great season after this summer rest, he was way overworked which is why he suffered after xmas.
If he truely respected Arsenal and the captaincy bestowed on him, he wouldn’t even consider going to City or any of our rivals.
If he does, then I wouldn’t even spit in his direction.
So he was a cunt all along masquerading behind a pair of balls? Really had me fooled. Well fuck him then.
OMG. This tells me that we should get rid of Diaby or else he’ll return and have his best season this year and leave us the following without a hint of gratitude!
Then fuck off, and go sit on the bench somewhere else, mate.
Worst move of your career. Good day to you.
Well Robin, that was Really Very Prickish
The Club’s response is up.
Has any top team lost as many captains in the same space of time as we have?
Wish we could go one season without our best player looking to leave its madness, no other top team has the problems we do.
Anyway bye Robin you had 1.5 great seasons for us and that’s about it, shame you didn’t stay you could have left a great legacy as a good captain
Wow. Disappointing news…
Priorities should move to re-signing Theo Walcott and Alex Song on improved deals now. And honestly, I feel we should slap a fat price tag on him and shop him to moneybags clubs outside England.
Also, glad I bought the Koscielny shirt now even more.
Gunners, no matter how we try to justify it… RVP’s statement f**k’d us over. He basically said that we have no ambition and won’t take the next step to be a team that will compete with the big boys. I would hate him less if he said he would be leaving for the money.
Our squad has too much dead wood and we have a wage policy that well and truelly sucks.
What a cunt. Why do we allow this to happen every fucking year. If we don’t make a stand this time it will keep happening. Can’t believe it. No other big clubs go through this, we are a laughing stock-fucking selling club. And I’ve renewed my ST. Never again you bastards
Well fuck you mr Van Persie and fuck off. I never thought love could turn to hate so fucking fast but it has.
The same goes for “big news fucking Gazidis”. This was the big news! You slimy, slithering piece of shit!
I also want to hear what in Wengers and Arsenals future plans you dont agree with Van Persie. But I bet it`s all about the money.
Cunt
Thought I’d leave my comments until a couple of hours after I heard to avoid a sweary fest.
I actually feel a bit relieved. RVP is the last of the big name and highly coveted players we have. To be rid of him means we don’t have to endure the constant speculation next year.
Recent Arsenal teams have been too reliant one or two big name players. I think if you have big name players you need to have a lot of them (as the invincibles did) or the team isn’t really a team in peoples minds. It is more RVP and 10 other guys who help him win us games from time to time.
I think without the big name world class player (which to be honest we don’t have any more of) there is a possibility that the team may take more responsibility as a unit.
We have a lot of very talented players who have to be honest, underperformed. Hopefully without a focal point to take responsibility away from them they will play more as a team. Great teams are built out of adversity.
I don’t care where he goes to be honest. Whoever gives us the most money for him whether its City or not.
Why’d you say that Robin? Why? You’re my hero. And you say something dirty. Like poop. Poop mouth. I hate you Robin Van Persie, I hate you.
Cheers for that. Here’s a link : http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/club-statement-robin-van-persie
It’s measured is the best you can say about the club’s response.
Bah!
Should we really be upset? With his injury history, there’s NO way he would have mirrored last season’s form anyways. Come on Wenger, cash in on him now!
I personally cant wait until we prove the media and “expert” pundits, that will no doubt now right us off, wrong.
His statement is absolute balls. We’ll live.
Nothing beats a Canon, Robin. Nothing.
A Cyber-Shot, surely?
Or is this too soon?
As long as he doesn’t go to City, I can offer a cheery farewell
I’m not onTwitter. Perhaps I should be. What are the other players saying if anything. (apart from HeWhoIsMissedEboue)?
So far no other player/ex player has responded except for Eboue.
You *know* that’s not actually him, right?
Fuck him! Sell him to PSG so we can get more money. He said he wants to win. PSG is a club who wants to win. I like Podolski more than him now. And use the money to buy more players.
Yeah, more money for the Board but not for Arsenal team! Wenger should go now but not from the club…. he should manage arsenal academy… he s plan for the first team is dead and gone!
“ We have to respect Robin’s decision not to renew his contract. Robin has one year to run on his current contract and we are confident that he will fulfil his commitments to the Club. We are planning with ambition and confidence for next season with Arsenal’s best interests in mind.” – Arsenal response
Arsenal response is subtle “fuck you back” response. Expects Van Persie to come back for pre season and see out his final year of contract. Practically, either someone cough up the money, or we will force him to stay for his final year of contract.
I read the news over on the ESPN site and the Arsenal haters there are having a veritable collective orgasm. That said, and not willing to speculate on the veracity of RvP’s statement, I still believe we’ll have some surprises for ALL the Arsenal-haters in the EPL.
So van Persie IS a typical modern footballer after all.Oh well,save your bullshit statement for someone who believes in fairies & father Christmas & shut the fucking door on your way out…
I say keep him for the year, he’ll want to play well to attract the best offer when he does leave.
Hopefully (and I hate saying this, but am that livid) he’ll banjax himself for another year, preferably before the Jan transfer window (ut’s 6 months before contract expiry that clubs can ‘legally’ offer a pre-contract) and no big club will go near him with a barge poll, we refuse top offer him new terms and he’ll end up at a 2nd/3rd rate club or will fuck off back to Feyenoord.
I also want this to draw a line under our policy of looking after balsa wood players. They never show us loyalty so fuck them, flog them and when they break down, get them fit and move them on. Let them break down every 6 months elsewhere.
Rosicky has been loyal in my book.
Rosicky is a shining example of the way that truly great players behave.
We stuck with him through an injury period during which even his fucking agent said his career was over.
He repays our loyalty with his and by playing his ruddy socks off every 90 minutes he gets.
well we know where we stand and RVP best of luck in Manchester but you are loved at your current club. I wish him the best but more than ever I wish the 2 new guys all the best and I hope to god to put 1 over on him and the rest of the money grabbing wankers at Man Shitty.
Heres to Arsenal guys and I am sorry RVP you are leaving now fuck off and dont let the door hit you on the way out.
Players’ careers are short. This is probably his last chance at life-transforming wealth for him and his children and his children’s children. If his decision is to cash in on that why should we begrudge him? It’s not like he’s got a back-up career as an aerospace engineer waiting for him after his playing days are over.
There is [almost] no loyalty left. Like the Seinfeld joke intimates, we pull for laundry. I can accept it.
So he`s not rich enough already? And according to VCP he only want`s to win trophies…..
Define ‘enough.’ Wouldn’t you want ‘more’ if you could get it? I’m sure he does want to win trophies (and would be in a decent position to do that at Arsenal next season). But I imagine wherever he goes next, he will also be getting a substantial increase in wages.
Life transforming? One year of his wages and my life would be transformed. No, it’s more greed than anything else.
And if you had a chance to make 2x or 3x what you’re making now, you would probably jump at the chance. He is a position to make the kind of money that secures his financial future for the rest of his life. Again, he has very few very good options after this contract. He is a footballer, not a rocket scientist. He is maximizing how much he can earn now, because there might not be more coming later.
In my opinion he must wait twelve months for his chance at life-transforming wealth. We must keep him and accept the loss in monetary terms. He will have no choice but to play as well as he can, for if he doesn’t then his chance may slip away in twelve months time. Nobody will waste serious wages on a one-season wonder with a history of regular injuries who hasn’t performed well in over a year.
If we keep him he has to work very hard to stay relevant to the top teams in Europe, and he will have to pray that he doesn’t get injured and disappear from view.
Essentially, if Arsenal are strong, he has shot himself in his own glass legs, and his future depends entirely on performing well for us this season.
I personally will never understand why players need to make these statements at all, if he genuinely has as much respect for us as he says he does, he wouldn’t say a word, it would all be done behind the scenes. Doing it this way is just another way of whoring himself out to whoever he fucks off to.
” I have always given my all (and more) on and off the pitch….” While I’m sure this is true, how many full seasons has he given us? The last one?
I just hope he does the decent thing (heh, i know), and leaves the country.
Honestly thought he might be different to the rest, just goes to show they are all the fucking same at the end of the day….
Sigh. Well I guess its time for AW to call Henry again.
You know what, we should make every player sign a clause into their contract that they won’t associate with Darren Dein and if they do we sue them for breach of contract. I really hate that little orange cunt
i do hope our 2 new left footed strikers will shine,win trophies and become legends at the arsenal bcoz F U RVP
An utterly predictable toothless response from arsenal fc. maybe rvp was right about them. too muh to expect some fight. words whiich mean nothing as usual. what exactly has gazidas done to warrant his wages since he arrived?
Would fighting words have necessarily meant anything? Words are just words. Deeds, on the other hand…
I like to imagine when larger events and trials like this arise that I would maintain a stoic countenance, react with grace and maintain the kind of character that In believe in.
Sometimes in my daydreams I am a hero at a crucial moment, or a leader when things seem at their most bleak.
In reality though I just yell “FUCK”, shit all over the place and curl into a ball hoping for some kind of comfort.
Oops! Sorry, is this not the “VIllas-Boas Fan club Support Group”?!
I hate to see RvP leave, simply because it’s another blow to the morale of our current squad, but honestly, I think he’s seen his best year and I’d bet my house he doesn’t come close to replicating his form of last year no matter where he goes. Cash in while we can. Au revoir, Robin.
Dear Mr Robin van Pussy,
I shall cut to the chase. You are a classless, dishonest CUNT!!, just like your cunt of a mate mr Nasri.
You say you have enjoyed your 8 years at Arsenal, well i bet you have, because (we the supporters) have paid you handsomely, and you have only rewarded the faith showed in you for 12 months of that time, clearly shop window tactics. But we saw your real worth during the Euro’s!!!
How dare you patronise us with your hollow words.
Do us all a favour, Arsene, drop this piece of shit to the reserves. Not even to be seen during the league cup. Make him train with kids for the remainder of his contract, deduct money from his wages at every opportunity!!!!!!
Van Pussy, if you had 1 iota of class you would sign an extension, but you have no class unlike your fellow countryman who once wore our shirt with pride & class, and had no problem signing yearly contracts but then you are not fit to lace his socks, either as a footballer, but more importantly as a man.
Players come and players go – the club is here forever (Thank god we’re not Glasgow Rangers) – they have a limited shelf life, and have to make the most of it while they can; they’re only one Stoke City tackle away from an early enforced retirement.
Thank You RVP, now please go away as soon as possible to as far away as possible (Barca/RM are my bets). Let’s get as much as we can for him, and get in players that want to be here – we can and never will compete with the 2 teams above us, let just get over it.
Up the Arsenal!
Sell him for top $ outside of EPL and invest in squad. Quickly. Simple as that. Oh yea and Fuck him
Set a deadline and get the maximum amount possible for him. It’s a shame this is what he wants to do, more so because I think since he was made captain, he has always done things in the best interest of the club up to this point. In my opinion, he genuinely seemed as though he was a fan like you or I and wanted to achieve things.
Moving forward this needs to be sorted out as soon as possible whether it be to Manchester city or Hanwell town, strengthen the team with funds raised and get a team that wants to play for the badge.
I hope City bid £20-30mil, but Wenger goes back to Juve and sells RVP for the €10mil quoted last week. That’d be a big fuck you to City, wouldn’t strengthen a domestic rival and would let Robin know how much the majority of the fans think he’s worth now…if we sell to City for any price then we’ll really know where the board stand.
Vieira, Henry, Cesc, flamini & Hleb, Na$ri… this one angers me the most. 6 years injured arsene, arsenal & the fans loyally stood by him & after 18 healthy months this is his thank you. Thanks & goodbye RVP – let’s see if Wenger makes him play out his contract…
I’m not as pissed as some of you (understandably so btw) just disappointed more than anything. Like already mentioned – he’s had one stellar season in his whole Arsenal career, the rest blighted by injury. But Arsene & the top brass stuck by him through it regardless – now instead of paying back some of that loyalty he wants to cash in off the hype of that one exceptional spell.
When Fabs left us I was close to crying some man tears – the guy genuinely loved this club and more importantly put in 8 solid years of hard graft. His reasons for leaving while hard to take were understandable. RVP is taking the opportunistic almost cowardly route out of this club and has much less to show for it.
Although Iike I said, I’m disappointed. 20+ million for an injury prone striker touching 30 would in the cold hard light of day be good business. And hey, like Flamini, Hleb, Nasri etc. he may just find that playing in a team not structured around him and with a manager with much less patience be actually quite mediocre half the time. The grass isn’t always greener leaving AFC Robin, thanks for your (limited) contributions over the last few years and don’t let the door hit you to hard on the way out.
I read a quote somewhere today which read: “Its a dangerous thing to get emotionally attached to a football player ”
How can we not get attached to a man who kisses the mythical badge and scores goals like the ones against Everton and Sp*ds?
I’m 20 years old and I’m not afraid to say that I cried about it.
Not because of Van Persie but because our Club deserves more, our ‘loyal’ manager deserves more, we deserve more. VP is only a passenger on this marvelous ship. The ship will and must remain.
i wonder what a club has to do to get a modern day footballer to be loyal to the club because sticking by vp through 7 years on the bench and 1 rape charge was,nt enough.
Darren Dein better pray I never come across him as he slithers through the polite salons of London.
A faceful of mace, and if I’m wearing stilettos, the most painful poke in the eye the little creep could ever under-imagine.
Id made my peace with this a while back, if was staying he’d have said. He’s a great player but no more than cesc was and not as much as Henry was. Everyone has to go sometime, without him last season we’d have been fucked. So lets all thank him for that and hope we get 30m and invest it wisely.
There is no other striker available that can do 30+ goals in the PL so we need a contributor and variety is key. Giroud and Podolski are good additions, someone good on the floor with some pace would be good, Aguero style… Though obviously cheaper
The silver lining in all this is as with Henry in his last season, Cesc in his last two and RVP last season we’d become too reliant on one player, too predictable and that’s not how you win things. Lets hope Arsene has his eye on some additions and we’ve got the Ox and Wilshire who could really be our main men next season…
Keep the faith
I’m not remotely surprised by this. Any fool could see that he was going. That’s why Wenger was so quick to snap up Podolski and Giroud. Those of you who slagged off Voldermort, Frog and me now need to apologise.
There has been so much bullshit from both sides about this matter. Here’s what’s really happened:
After his remarkable season last year, Van Persie thought that he deserved a new contract worth at least 200k a week. But, of course, there was no way that the club were gonna pay any player anywhere near that amount. So there was never any chance of an agreement being met.
So Wenger went out and bought Podolski and Giroud, knowing full well that Van Persie was going. And both sides agreed to keep their mouths shut because: a. the club wanted to renew as many season tickets as possible, and: b. RvP didn’t want any distractions at the Euros. And I’m sure that his agent has already negotiated a nice big fat contract at a wealthy club like, say, Man City.
I used to be a big fan of Robin, but now I just want him to fuck off. If Nasri is a cunt then what does that make a player who picked up massive wages during years of being injured and looked after by the club, then walks away after one great season? Don’t be fooled by the above statement: this is about money – pure and simple. If it isn’t then why didn’t he ask for a transfer two or three years ago?
Van Persie must go now. If we can get even 10 million for him then we must take it. That money should, but probably won’t be, invested in another striker. But I don’t want to see him here at the start of this season, if he doesn’t want to be an Arsenal player next year then he shouldn’t be one this year. Fuck off, cunt.
Any club which buys him should bear in mind his injury record: he carries a massive caveat emptor with him. Wouldn’t it be hilarious if he signed a four-year, 250k-a-week contract with Man City then promptly returned to his four-months-a-season injury routine?
That would be great.
Well said. It would take a pure idiot to believe that wenger signed not one , but two strikers, and actually think that rvp was staying.
He can fuck off to anywhere he wants. To me, he’s now just another name on the list of cesc, adabayor, nasri, cashly and Hleb.
To be honest. I like the look of our new front line. I vote koscielny as captain. All we need is a true attacking midfielder and were good.
O ya, I hope robin breaks his leg.
Brake your head man. Arsenal Board lover!
Haha. What are you on about?
Well said, this one annoys me more then any other because the loyalty the prick was showed
Does anyone else have this horrible image of Nasri’s shit eating grin. He’s probably been incessantly wanking over pictures of RVP in some strange voodoo ritual since he got dumped out of the Euros.
If Nasri doesn’t have a spite filled dig at this latest turn of events in the next few days, I’ll actually be pleasantly surprised…
Honestly, forget about us fans. If you’re going to leave let the Club sell you and then address the fans. Don’t mock us with and try to win us over by blaming the boardroom for your mercenary attitude that leaves us short a few million quid in the market so you can bid up your contract. I’ll remember the fantastic year you had and the 7 years I referred to you as “Glass ankles” Van Persie. Enjoy your one year at a club that overpays for you and the remaining years on a bench.
How timid and inept is our board you ask? Astonishingly. A prime example is in keeping players like Diaby around. A perennial fixture in the Arsenal medical rooms- somehow we as a club feel this moral obligation to stick by players that give us very little to nothing back. How very noble of us. Here’s a question- what when Diaby of great Vieira-esque potential has his one good season and decides he is now of Real Madrid material (or worthy of City riches)? At Arsenal, the management does not hold players responsible. If a player is injured or underperforming, that’s okay- you won’t get cut or transferred and we’ll still pay your wages. No incentive. Management 101. This creates a sense of security and complacency which has plagued this team for years now. The fans call these injuries bad luck- what about the list of players that give us nothing and sit on the wage bill. We are so afraid to lose RVP because we put a bunch of dud deadweights around him who will now have to pick up the slack. At United, Nani (who if he had the same stats at AFC would easily enjoy RVP status) is still unsure of his position next season. Because he can and will be replaced more than adequately if he put too many feet wrong. There is a ruthless streak that is missing that is clear. And it is not even made up by intelligent transfer strategies- year after year we have to deal with trying to rid the obnoxious deadweight in our salary while our best players who actually earn their wages run down their contracts. The vultures circle the Arsenal every summer and they are very hopeful now as they are rarely disappointed. The cherry on top is of course that Gazidis is off on vacation this summer when NOW is his crunch time. If he took 2 months off mid season, I doubt very many if us would bat an eyelid. During the summer transfer window with key players to buy, sell and hold on to he saw this time as fit to hit up the beaches of California. This dspite the PR beating we have taken in the transfer market over the last few summers.Boggles the mind. Surely such levels of ineptitude would not go unpunished at any other club or even ‘business’ for that matter. At Arsenal F.C. it does. And the board better not mistake this for a second- Arsenal is in the business of football. If we do not fix the results on the pitch we are in great danger of being the fifth or sixth best club in England. Which will eventually translate similarly in value, profits, success and everything they seem to hold dear. The board needs more than a rude awakening- it needs a revamp. And it eventually will happen- maybe it will take falling out of the Champions League spots or even Europe altogether. With Wenger leading the helm, I do not believe we will ever fall down the ladder far enough to see the shakeup the system so clearly needs. So until then we will always be noble Arsenal. Alas, it does not work that way in the game of success- not in the 21 century which incidentally is about a couple centuries since Mr. Hill-Wood first joined the workforce.
“Management 101″
…I must have missed that class
Wow… This is kind of the football equivalent of being broken up with over text message. If you don’t want to renew, then don’t renew. No need to make it public, effectively diminishing your value in the transfer market. you could have been a legend at this club with two or three more good years… now you are an Anelka. Let’s sort out this Walcott contract, one way or the other, and plan a future with the players who are truly committed to being gunners.
Who knows, maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Maybe we can make 25 mil on a 30 year old who spends the rest of his career dealing with nagging injuries.
He could of been a premier league legend, regardless of whether he won anything or not. Will never reach that stature now, even if he jumps ship to a trophy winning side. Really want to express more anger, but I think people need time to get over the hurt and anger (myself included) before we start to hate on him…
Fuck a you whrale, fuck a you Robeen!
Is it possible that Wenger’s announcement this morning was made in the knowledge van Persie was going to do this? Reiterating his stance that Arsenal aren’t going to give up and that they’re confident of van Persie staying?
Considering the hash the club made of media management last summer maybe this is a stronger stance, and saying we’re going to try and show van Persie that what he’s said is wrong and prove to him he should stay?
Hopeful more than anything else, and if he does leave then forget him, if we can get 15m for him at the age of 29 then that’s money that can go well towards a player like Javi Martinez maybe…
I think the point for a lot of people is now he’s made this statement we don’t want him to change his mind. I never want to see him in an Arsenal shirt again personally.
i’m so gutted right now, don’t even know where to start…………..oh wait i’m a deluded arsenal fan ……….’ah he wasn’t that good anyway plus he was old, we’l probably get through this and we’l be even stronger to win the league!!!!!’
Happened last time. Guess we’re not so deluded after all you Muppet
Great player for us last season. Shame he is off but hey ho. Lets get on with it now prove the lazy pundits wrong again and play some great football in the meantime.
Come on you reds!
Who In the world refers to arsenal as the REDS?
You are sailing on the wrong boat mate………….off you go.
“Come On You Reds” was a regular chant at Highbury for years, decades even….you know, before Skyball was invented.
RvP is not the brightest guy, tbh. He wants to play hard but Arsenal don’t need the green at all costs, so the club can let him rot in the reserves.
If we sell RvP this summer, do we get another striker or should we hope either Chamakh or Park will make some kind of positive contribution? I still believe Chamakh will be sold because of Giroud. The interesting case is J.Y. Park. Park also has only one year left in his 2-year contract, unless I’m mistaken, so Arsenal may keep him around until we can buy another striker the next summer transfer.
I would have this piece of shit cunt in the reserves next season
Really didnt give 2 shiets about him staying or going. Arsenal is eternal.
So essentially in May a contract wasn’t discussed but the club’s future plans were talked about and RVP wasn’t satisfied so he goes away thinks about it for 2 months and decides that ‘out of respect for Mr. Wenger and the fans’ he has to reveal what his plans are without giving us details? So he made his mind up in May or earlier and in July announces he won’t sign a new contract because his visions for the club are different from those of the ones actually being paid to lead the club in the right direction?
It’s common enough I’m sure for players to have some input into the club’s plans, future strategy etc but to actually dictate club policy or threaten to leave is frankly beyond what a player is employed/adored/contracted for. If Wenger was to leave because the board didn’t share his ambition or had different ideas- you can at least wrap your head around it. For a player regardless of whether it is RVP or Park Chu Young to say he won’t sign a new contract because the club isn’t going down his fantasy path is a bit rich. Yes he may want to win trophies and might be really ambitious but if he was so keen on deciding what path a club should take in the future, he should have gotten into managing a club or getting on the board.
If anybody comes out of this with their reputation intact it is the club and not Mr. RVP who happens to worry about the fans and the manager so much he can’t be arsed to actually stick around when things aren’t all that rosy.
Working up into an absolute froth over this. How fuckin disrespectful is this statement? Fuck the ‘you guys’ shit. If he truly believed that he loves the club and if he had an ounce of respect for Wenger, he would never have released this self serving piece of shit.
He was brilliant last season, absolutely different class, but all those good memories are gone reading this.
He has to go. End of. Much as I’d love to hold him to his last year, you cannot have a player at the club, and such a high profile one at that, publicly slag the club off and stay. He would be a cancerous influence infecting the other players.
RVP, Arsenal Legend? Enormous Fuckin Fail.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha !!!!!
And then some !
All credit to Rv P for telling the truth.
So we now know.
But given that the blessed – ( In Arseblog Land at least?!) Hill-Wood said he was definitely staying, most Gooners with half a brain cell could have worked this out.
Forget about it ! He won’t repeat last season here or elsewhere. Wave bye-bye ! Get Clint Dempsy in for less than half the price and move on…….
But – what bunch of clowns Wenger, Gazedis and Hill-Wood are ! I mean……Seriously!!!………..Just how stupid are they ???????
Flamini…..Gallas…….Hleb………Nasri…….Cesc……….Gallas………..Adeybayor…….those and others all voted with their feet. And are abused for it on Arseblog News ???!!!
But do you really blame them ? Oh yes and Ashley Cole ! Don’t forget him.
But keep believing that Hill-Wood and Kronke and Friar are the way forward………..if you are really that dumb ?
Paging Alisha Usmanov……………somewhere in the midst of 12 billion pounds…………there are a large number of Arsenal fans………….not on this site but at large all the same…………we urgently require your assistance in there vicinity of Drayton Park London N5…………as you can……….Thank You !………
In the mean time keep taking the Hill-Wood tablets and place yourself horizontal……….and face down………?
I hate you and every opinion you have
well i’m now 0 for 3 in terms of buying jerseys and having that player leave that summer. Adebayor, Fabregas and now Robin.
Maybe I’ll pick up a denilson or bendtner jersey
diaby jersey is all the rage now. He’s not going anywhere, literally.
I dont get it..why is everyone hating on RVP? Why cant everyone here see that our bastard board is to blame? He has been loyal to us and sincerely wants to win! Put yourself in his shoes if you were 29 and you’re one of the best in the world wouldnt u think that you deserve to win trophies?? Has everyone forgotten when Arsene Wenger said that finishing fourth place is a trophy? Thats a disgusting thing to say for such a great club like Arsenal! What Wenger is saying reflects the ambitions of the board, I think Wengers hands are tied here.
We need more signings, world class as well, maybe 2/3 more. We need a RB to cover for and challenge Sagna, a solid DMF (like G.Silva and Vieira before) and a backup GK as well.
WHY should we be in decline when we are financially solid and our reputation is so strong??? It saddens me so much
I was watching classic Arsenal matches on ESPN and it reminded me of what we’re missing: Players with physical and (here it comes lol) MENTAL strength! Look at how United do it, they have some kids but they also have some experience to help the kids develop! We really need more Adams’ Vieiras Parlours Keowns and etc.
LOVE ARSENAL! LOVE WENGER! HATE THE BOARD!
RVp had one season out of eight n says he wants to win trohyies think he should have left years bfore if he rely wants dt n he is now disrepectful toward d clun d manager d fans who stood by him through his thick n hard period. Dissapointed.
Frist I have to say I’m gutted to hear this news, lived watching RVP playing last year without him we would have been fucked.
But I’m not mad at him, it’s his ‘last’ big contact and he wants to win things. The club havent convinced him and he feels he needs to move to ‘win’. Nothing wrong with that if your in the position of power like he is with 1 year left on his contact.
What I’m pissed off about, is he is the 4th-5th player in the how many years to leave like this. What in gods green earth are the people who take of contacts been doing? Either they have been sacked because their shit and there is nobody left or they have monkeys doing the job.
Also I’m worried about who will be captain now. 3 captains have left in the last 3 years,
No surprise he’s going. Only a fool would have thought he would stay. Many thanks for last season!!! The prem is becoming an absolute joke. Chelski and man shitty buying trophies. As far as I’m concerned the history of the English top flight ended in 2010-2011. There is no skill in winning the champions league and the prem if you go out and buy all the best players and make a loss of £50m each year. Uefa fair play. What a fucking joke that will be!
i dont think its a great idea to hate van persie though. he carried the club last season, without him we might of finished under dirty spurs.
secondly, its not a good idea for fans to effect his form next season. if we are to keep him we might as well support him even if its just a year.
It is somewhat expected anyways since it took him this long to decide.
at least he didnt lift his skirt instantly when other teams came calling… ahem na$ri.
1). Darren Dein obviously has it out for the club. I put him In th same class as Nasri, but a little bit lower.
2). Robin has really hurt our chances of getting a more favorable transfer fee with this announcement, if he wants to leave so be it. But as others have said, we did stick with him through many injuries, and then some, thus he certainly could have waited to make this announcement public. Now this will just turn into another Cesc drama, dragging on all summer.
3). I’m curious to know what specific disagreements he had with the club on how to move forward. Perhaps he is just using this as an excuse, but we have all seen how far behind the club has fallen in transfer business – we simply don’t want/can’t afford top notch players via transfers. I sense Robin wanted more veteran/established quality players in the team, and the club disagreed citing their focus on youth/wage structure.
4). I’m sorry to see Robin go, he has given us ONE great year. But I’m more upset about the method and timing Robin has chosen to do all this. 4 days after the transfer market opens – at least give us some time to get fair market value for you Robin! I’m sure Darren Dein has already agreed Terms with Man City and this is his way of pushing the deal through knowing the supporters don’t want another Cesc summer.
Sorry ment to say a loss of £171m. Lol
Rest assured he will be playing in blue next season
its bad enough that the rest of the world uses the stick ‘lack of ambition’ to beat us with, but to see our own captain do it is absolutely disgraceful.
oh and… if there’s one thing I’ve realized, the only person truly committed to this club, and us the fans, is arsene wenger. he could leave to ANY club of his choosing and work with an endless budget… but he chooses to stay at our arsenal to bring it back to the glory days
Seriously? Back to the glory days? More like a club thats happy to turn a profit.
what wenger has done on the shoestring budget he’s been allotted is nothing short of remarkable. a lot of people just dont have the cranial capacity to actually look at the circumstances in the last 6 or 7 years of his tenure.
Am I the only one who is reading into what he is TRYING to get across? If i was going to sign the last contract of my career I would want the club to be moving in the right direction. This club, as RvP is trying to say, is happy to stay where it is, competing but not winning. He is not happy with that, and wants you all to know why he will be leaving. Personally I think he loves the club and us, and that won’t change.
That last comment about Gazidis “when he returns from his two week holiday in America” is a massive hidden dig at the man. Who fucks off on holiday just before the pre-season starts?!?!
Open your eyes, Robin is trying to tell you something.
for the first summer in a while, we actually looked to be strengthening. If RVP didn’t pull this shit and we had him as a contributing member of the squad we could challenge for the title, and fuck you if you think otherwise.
there is no reason for him to not think we couldn’t reasonably get him a title if he stuck with us. We would have been contenders, and he could have gone down as a legend. Now unless we really sign a ‘super quality’ player with his fee, that probably wont happen. Don’t fall into the ploy of him putting the blame on wenger and co.
Robin’s not trying to tell us anything. This statement wasn’t written through teary eyes, it was probably e-mailed to his phone just before it was posted for his approval. This statement is nothing more than a PR move, don’t get suckered in by it.
8 years of keeping faith in an injury stricken striker and what a beautiful reward we get in return. We have an owner who, whether he has a tongue or not, is yet to be ascertained, we’ve become a feeder club and worst of all, we have a Gazidis (interchangeable with “terminal infection”). Over the last decade or so, our net transfer spending is -19 mill. I don’t know what’s happening to our club. Ray Parlour would be the obvious captain of this team, and Edu would be the main player in midfield. We’ve gotten so used to mediocrity that we get excited by decent signings. It’s to reshuffle our policies, change the board and destroy the wage structure. It’s time to make our voice heard!
Now more than ever I want this club to win a trophy this season
You want? I wanted for all the players who left arsenal in last 5 years (except na$ri and adebayor) to stay. and years before that, when Viera and a crew left cos “they were too old” i wanted for them to stay but today Viera is in the City and not arsenal… why? for money? i dont think so… Rvp is sick of the arsenal board and thats it… if he thinks about money he would never give this kind of statement!
To start with, so many questions we ought to ask RVP.
1 what was his request in term of
the club’s ambition.
2 what was the club’s response
like.
As far as i am concerned he should be bold enough to give us these details, even if no more than a parting gift.
he wanted us to show ambition, we signed 2 quality strikers, a proven german, and the top scorer in the team that won the french championship. that claim that we didn’t show ambition is bullshit, don’t fall for it.
Having had time to think about this some more, I am curious as to what went on in the meeting in May. There are a couple of things to be said for sure:
1) If Gazidis ever sold a used car to someone, I’d feel very sorry for the poor sucker who bought it (and what is Gazidis doing vacationing in the US at this crucial time–in MO sucking Kroenke’s dick?)
2) Wenger, in his announcements, is often prone to wandering from the truth.
So RvP was in confab with this pair of BS merchants back then, but Arsenal did make a couple of good acquisitions early on, so I’m a little puzzled by his statement, which seems as self-serving and mendacious as anything that pair can dish up. (And isn’t he breaking the self-imposed silence that all parties agreed upon?)
My conclusion is that he’s gone for more money, and the more we can get for him now, the better.
COYG!
Now everything is clear RVP wanted to be shown ambitions from the club and wenger and he didn’t get that so Wenger new all along that rvp will not sign new contract and fool us to believe that we finally started to show ambitions by bying players early podolski and giroud now everything is clear they are replacement for rvp podolski 11 million p + 10 million giroud is exactly the sum we will get by selling RVP so nothing has changed same old policy and I don’t blame rvp he demanded answers from wenger and gazidis he wanted us to go forward and we needed just 3-4 players to do that and that’s it. So no new signings just replacement for rvp, Podolski+Giroud close to RVP and another summer for making profit nothing more no ambition shown, as I said the money we get for the sale of rvp we cover the cost of pod and giroud the sales of the dead wood players like bendtner arshavin chamakf etc is going to the bank for profit . It’s really sad.
wenger is the one person who has shown any commitment at all to this goddamn club. I’m so sick of people thinking he’s actively betraying us. The mans a fucking arsenal legend, can somebody please show him some respect for once
fuck sake gutted every time l think we could challege for thophys someone leaves knocking us back abit takes time to replace these players then we do then someone else leaves, we would of won the league a couple more times if these players stayed abit longer so frustrating, so annoying and so sad to see one of our best leave again but van persie is making a huge mistake should of stayed and became a legend instead of just another player. oh fuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccckk oh well we will live
RVP is making himself out to be 1 of 2 things:
1: A guy who is willing to do the ultimate sacrifice for Our club, i.e. willing to change the philosophy of the club at the expense of his own status as ‘club hero’. This is a very noble sacrifice, and i mean Metal Gear Solid epic where RVP will leave a villain/cunt/knob ‘ed etc. He could pave the way for radical changes at Our club and how we handle a variety of issues regarding acquisition of assets and subsequent maintenance of those assets.
2: A guy who wants out of a club he views as having no chance of doing anything that could match his individual level of brilliance that he showed last season. I (and a few others) was saying last season that i would not blame RVP if he decided to leave. That little panic buying spree after we lost 8-2 to Manure was probably a major factor. Arsenal are ‘re-writting the book’ with a fine tipped pen while $hitty are doing it with a great big mop dipped Arsenal blood or whatever liquid used to ‘re-write a book’.
Podolski and ,to a lesser extent, Giroud should have proved to RVP in some ways that, perhaps things were changing in terms of changing personnel. Arshavin got the boot midway and it looks like a few others might get a boot as well. Personally i think that Arsenal are currently changing, this process will continue with or without RVP. RVP has chosen not to become a part of this changing process. Its a shame that a fiery character as RVP, a man who would square up to an entire opposition team alone and not back down, would chose to be option 2.
I will miss the lad and will bear no malice towards him. The fact that 2/3 years ago we didn’t give him a contract because he was injured does niggle at me a bit, but you can’t expect renewed loyalty on such an arbitrary scale from anyone these days especially in the professional industry. RVP leaves as the best Arsenal player for the 2011/2012 season.
The ball is in Mr Wenger’s court now. Find our next hero!
This is the speech my girlfriends always give me when they dump me ffs and it’s all a load of bollox.
(it’s also bollox that I ever had girlfriends.. or even boyfriends. I’m ugly)
John Terry is uglier and he still got Wayne Bridge’s hot wife pregnant…. Anyway, this hurts more than Cesc bc RVP didnt have any legitimate reason to leave. He isn’t a cunt but this decision of his was a cuntish move. Oh well he’s almost 29 and had 1 great season and two half seasons. Man City will pay 30m. and give him £250k a week and then he will get injured.
Hmmm well I don’t think this was a great move from Robin and his agent. This is how I see it; there have been no offers, Arsene said Robin would not be leaving, they figured that no response would be akin to agreement, they decided they needed to issue a statement to drum up interest for whichever financial reason you wish to believe (I think everyone realises it was either more money at arsenal or more money elsewhere = more money) , they royally fucked it up.
This statement has fucked him up with the fans. I hope its not a ‘Rooney bargaining’ tool and I don’t want him to get a new bumper deal. Nobody should want a player with no loyalty to the club, and he has shown no loyalty with these words. As the majority of you have already pointed out he has been looked after extremely well by the club, nursed through injuries and given new contracts with improved terms at the same time. He was far from a ‘wonderkid’ when arsenal picked him up before he was booted out, and he may just have ended up a journeyman winger if it were not for arsenal, who knows?
The facts are these; he is an ageing striker (contract wise) with a more than dodgy injury record, who just had the best season of his career with the awards and accolades that rightly come with that. And he’s cashing in his chips. No doubt.
So what to do with him now? He has driven his price down and his wages up, we know this. But will anyone really fancy mega wages with a shady injury history? I think that rules out all but the super rich, the Anji’s, PSG’s and Citeh’s of this world. If he’s serious about his ambitions, he shouldn’t be heading to Italy, Russia or France. So he’s gotta be angling for Barca, Real, Citeh or Chelski. If he thinks he’ll be first choice there than he better be happy sitting down for his wages.
I’d love to see him sit it out in the reserves if I’m honest but it wouldn’t be good for the team having him skulking about in the background. And then he’d go for free anyway having picked up a seasons worth of healthy wages for fuck all. Fees of £35m for him being banded about are well wide of the mark in my opinion, £15m if your lucky I reckon. Based (only) on last season and what he did for us it seems criminal to let him force his way out for that kind of money, especialy to another Prem club. So Arsene, if you read this, and im sure you will, as a regular arseblogee, loan him out for a fee for the season, claw back some of the wages and let him sit it out at PSG, Juve or Malaga. Show him what he’s fucked off and what he’s left with. Then this time next year we’ll be hearing he’s completed his move to some Arab rich side, Ahl -something or other. Mega rich, but with fuck all to show for it.
Robin, your agent has sold you down the river, to fund his new extension with heated swimming pool and sauna. And you will never be shown loyalty by another club for the remainder of your career because you will be a billionaires toy. Desired then discarded.
I feel better for that.
Oh and fuck off Robin you greedy cunt, you’re a Nasri/Adabyor not a Cesc/Henry. If you really had ambition to win things you would have stayed and done just that, not courted a move to someone who just had.
Players signed in the eight years after van Persie signed (with 100 appearances): Flamini, Djourou, Eboué, Hleb, Bendtner, Song, Adebayor, Gallas, Walcott, Diaby, Rosický, Denílson, Sagna, Ramsey, Nasri, Arshavin.
Players signed in the eight years before van Persie signed (with 100 appearances): Ljungberg, Cole, Henry, Kanu, Luzhny, Lauren, Pires, Wiltord, Campbell, Edu, Gilberto, Toure, Lehmann, Fabregas, Clichy, Senderos, Almunia, Reyes.
Somewhere around the time van Persie signed in 2004, things changed. Arsenal had been a pioneer in the search for undervalued talent (look at the years 1998-2004!). By the time of the signing of RVP, the rest of the football world had caught up. Instead of adapting and improvising, inventing a plan B, Arsenal now are beaten at the game we invented.
Honestly, I don’t know what the next step is for the club. We’re not able to pay for top-notch talent, and other teams beat us to the hidden gems who are left (I have a theory that in the present days of YouTube, etc., hidden gems are no longer hidden but in the open for all to see) . But either we change or we continue to battle for fourth place. Some years we aren’t going to make it.
I don’t think you can blame him really. He’s seen all of the best players leave over the years and gone on to fulfill ambitions of winning trophies which surely is what it’s all about for a big club like Arsenal. Arsenal have had plenty of chances to move with the times and invest properly in our team but instead they buy Chamakh’s and Parks etc etc??
Only Arsenal can be blamed for players leaving to better their short careers.
If your not moving forward in your own job do you stay there for years not achieving anything? Do you fuck, you start looking for something to better yourself.
There are plenty of players who have left and who haven’t “won stuff.” Not everyone who leaves – even when they are doing well at AFC – go on to glory.
I have a vision of Dein-inspired football lawyers and agents all sitting around in a bar somewhere laughing about the standard, hypocritical way in which such statements are drafted – “And then we told the fans… Arsenal wasn’t doing enough!!!!”
Us fans. Bus. Thrown under.
Darren Dein, please stay out of driving distance from my home.
RvP is on the list as well if he moves on and opens his mouth again like this. Classless.
So far, the list of footballers who will be shouted at, or worse, on my list includes:
-Xavi
-Pedro
-Sergio Busquets
-any spuds players excepting Robbie Keane
-Joey Barton
-all members of Stoke City Rugby Football Club
And before you ask, Robbie Keane gets a pass because I already told him he’s a worthless sack of spud-loving shit, in addition to being Beckham’s bootboy. Gotta love cheap seats in the MLS right behind the visiting team’s bench.
I always thought RVP was not like the others.
There was major heartbreak last summer when Cesc left. And i was absolutely gutted. And this year it’s RVP.
I don’t wanna swear at him, and I’m not even angry.
I just wanna know the real reason from him. Not the load of tosh he posted at his website.
Was dreading this to be honest…. No point in lying this is quite the blow and is disappointing as he is a glaringly obvious world class talent and i thought he was above the money grabbing ways of the contemporary footballer… Irreplaceable, maybe. But we can still challenge if wenger splashes the cash from his inevitable sale.
Anyways, robin van persie can learn a thing or two from the gerrards/ del pieros in this world(Loyalty)…$asmir na$ri and van per$ie reunite. Good riddance!!
And by “ambition” I believe he means Arsenal can’t or won’t pay £200,000 per week. He imagine he compares his value to the dross of the club, like Diaby, Ramsey, Chamakh, and concludes he should easily make 4 times the wages. With which I wholeheartedly agree, though not from the angle at which RVP and his soul-sucking agent must surely stand.
The peripheral talents are making too much. The flat wage structure is probably 75% or so of the cause of our talent flight.
Robin Van Prick.
Captain my ass, I don’t have to re-hash what has already been said over and over, just gutted. Way to lead Arsenal to glory, some leadership.
I am glad my new Arsenal jersey has Wilshere’s name on it.
Come on people, wise up.
His deal with his new club was hashed out between intermediaries months ago over a nice Malbec and a juicy steak. Everything after that was just fairy stories.
RVP – from probable legend to probable leg-end in one short statement.
I’m sick of all the anti-Wenger brigade saying that it’s all his fault players like RVP leave because Arsenal isn’t ambitious enough and doesn’t sign world class players (and spend £50m in the process). Remind me again which one of the invincibles, if any, was considered “world class” when Wenger bought them and just how much they cost? Bergkamp was bought by Rioch, don’t forget.
And if Arsenal had spunked millions on big name signings, players like RVP would still be nobodies in their local leagues. Still, if he wants more money to sit on the subs bench at Eastlands, let him be honest enough to say it.
And why should Wenger be immune from criticism? The Invincibles played several years ago. Wenger’s mendacity in recent years suggests that he may have lost the thread.
do you have any idea of the conditions he’s had to work under these last 6 years?
what he’s done given the resources and setbacks the club has given him is nothing short of remarkable.
Just sell the f***er to the Russian League or put him on garden leave for a year! We stuck with him when he was constantly injured and could only manage a handful of games each season – one good year and he starts acting like Na$ri or cA$hley.
We need to make an example of him – so the other players that follow know what will happen.
Damn!!
What is up with the captains armband at Arsenal, is there some kind of mind control device on it that makes them want to leave,,,,
Denilson for captain anybody?
Worse, Denilson is staying on loan at Sao Paolo.
We are fucked…
Maybe we burn the captain’s armband the same time we burn the No 9 jersey?
Ambition I think is a term that gets thrown around way too much. Players hide behind it but the reality is the way our club runs right now is about being good enough for top 4 and paying off the stadium. Once that’s done I think the dark clouds will go away but until then just have to grit your teeth and accept this is how it is.
Let the cunts that want to laugh at us laugh, a players career is 10-15 years on average the club can go on forever with the right foundations
I want Ray Parlour back !!!!
I’m angry and, like everyone else, disappointed: I thought RVP had more class than this.
He seems to think he knows better how the club should be run than those who’ve been running it for the last 10 years, 20 years, more. Is he saying we shouldn’t keep regularly injured players (like he was till last year) on the books? Or that we shouldn’t have been paying him so much until he finally made it as captain and leading goalscorer? I’d really like to know.
So, not a true Gunner after all. I guess. As others have said, he could have become an Arsenal legend if he had stayed. Now he’ll be a one-season wonder (and we’ve had a few of those!). Why did he even accept the captaincy?
Wonder what his wife thinks?
There’s one answer to this: keep him to his contract, and show him how wrong he is by winning something (CL, Prem, FA Cup, I don’t mind which, even the League Cup, though more would be nice) next season with Giroud and Podolski, Arteta and Wilshere and the others. He might stay fit and play a few games, too. But replace him as captain: my choice would Mikel Arteta.
Robin
How much do you pay the idiot agents that advise you, this totally ridiculous statement issued by your agent has alienated you from all true Arsenal supporters, personally I hope you break a leg and then find out what true loyalty is all about, I will not buy any tickets this season unless I am asssured that you are permanently glued to the bench. You are finished as far as I am concerned, FO and find some like minded minded mercenaries such as a you might find in a city where it never stops raining, I am sure your wife will love it, make sure she has a good umbrella, sell your house quick
Send him to Russia!!! That is where we will get the most money for him. How about Anzhi Makskajkshdaks?
didn’t his wife want him to say?!
No action for him any more, i guess
stay*
I somehow find it hard to believe that they can’t agree on that they both want to win trophies…
Boys, in times of trouble, watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXAZJ28s1rU
RVP: “I love this club. I’m a Gunner”.
No sir, you are a hireling, You have 12 months left on your contract. You will earn your wages during those 12 months, and you will do it willingly because at your age a poor year this year might see you end up with very few top job options in 12 months time.
So board decided to cash in on Robin, agreed to sell him to Shity, bought in replacements, and then talked him into releasing this statement, that would damage his relationship with Arsenal fans, thus, paving better relationship with Shity fans (?) and paint them as the victims. Well played.
Respect man!
hell of a theory thats for sure
Different players leave every season, but the common denominator is… that they’re all just cunts. Go figure.
I hope this is the last comment on this thread. While this hurts more than finding out your wife cheats on you with a donkey, I genuinely think there is a silver lining: RvP and Walcott, when they leave, will be the last of an era of players that Arsene signed on the back of the Invincibles. Glory hunters who deluded us into believing they were worthy of wearing the red & white as Tony Adams once did. I remember that press kit in late 2005 that had RvP, Fabregas, Walcott and some other guy kick those balls in front of Highbury. These were youngsters that wanted trophies, and thought they could achieve it easiest at The Arsenal. Over time they could not succeed, due to their lacof sporting character when the chips were down, and now they cite a “lack of ambition” on the club’s part. They can all lick my tits. I think the future of Arsenal, the return to glory, will be built on integrity- on the backs of Koscielny, Vermaelen, Sagna, Wilshere and Arteta. Players who deserve to be mentioned along Bastin, Henry, Bergkamp and Adams. I can wait another 30 fucking years for a trophy as long as the principles of the Arsenal are stuck to when we win it. #COYG
A disaster for Robin VP. It will take him a little while to find that out.
Goodbye.
Am I the only one that fears this means no more significant signings this summer then? I assume thats what RVP meant by lack of ambition.
And for everyone with hateful comments can we not be so fickle? 2 months ago this guy was our hero and lets be honest without him last season we would have done a liverpool. Yes i’m f*cking pissed off as well and IF he goes to somewhere like PSG/Juve then by all means slate him as much as you want, but at the end of the day can’t we reserve judgement to see where (if) he actually goes?
I know citeh are full of cunts but if he goes there it won’t only be for the money, they will also win trophies and that’s the truth. I just genuinely believe if he stayed with us and with some new players he could win trophies here.
I guess my point is this hysterical all of a sudden ‘he’s a cunt like nasri’ is a bit stomach churning. 24 hours ago we all worshipped the guy. lets see what happens?…
This is the end, my friend. Arsenal FC is a money machine, and Rvp’s desire to win something has more of the sport agenda then way Board is running our club! Rvp respect!
Arsenal record a profit but all profits are re-invested back into the team and right now, used to pay off the stadium debt.
How many other teams can afford to self-fund their own stadium right now?
Liverpool are looking at the numbers and sweating. Man City are leasing a stadium built for the Commonwealth games. Chelsea can’t even find a proper location at the moment and their own fans don’t trust the owner with the Stamford bridge deed. Sp*rs are even worse off than us.
Okey I agree with you but how will you feel when Walcott&Song leave, and Wilshere and then Ox,…. this is the end of a dream! Only cos of Rvp we were 3rd last season!
I wanted for all the players who left arsenal in last 5 years (except na$ri and adebayor) to stay. and years before that, when Viera and a crew left cos “they were too old” i wanted for them to stay but today Viera is in the City and not arsenal… why? for money? i dont think so… Rvp is sick of the arsenal board and thats it… if he thinks about money he would never give this kind of statement!
Whether you love (or love to hate) RVP or not, it’s worth putting the situation into context. Which headline would you rather wake up too on tomorrow morning’s back-pages?
a) “Cash-rich Citeh to buy RVP”
OR
b) “Arsenal become plaything of cash rich billionaire”
Whilst both scenarios leave a bitter taste in the mouth, don’t underestimate the pride our club can take in doing business the right way. At the end of the day RVP is but ONE player. Arsenal will move on, evolve and progress (and quickly too). Coming to terms with the fact that your club has effectively sold its soul, at least we don’t have to worry about that one.
Damn!!!
And so it happens again…
It’s interesting to me that these days when a player decides to leave the club, it’s important for them to make a statement to the effect of “This isn’t about money, what I’m really after is footballing success and glory.” Of course, in any other industry (putting aside for a minute whether or not we think football *should* be just another industry), you’d never have to make such a statement; it’s perfectly acceptable in many professional situations to accept a job offer on the basis of better pay. There’s other variables at play, but salary is certainly a huge consideration.
Professional footballers, though, aren’t held to account by their gas bills or the cost of feeding their families, they’re held to account by fans, passionate about their team who don’t want to see it treated as just another business. So they make a statement on their website that more or less says, “I’m just like you, I love this club. So when I decided to leave, believe me, it wasn’t just for cash. I did it because I love football and I want to be a great footballer.”
I have a couple of reactions to that.
One, of course it’s not about money. You play for a club that is well known to have a wage structure that can’t/won’t/doesn’t match those of any of the clubs you will potentially sign for. Among the shortlist of teams that are willing to buy you and that you’re willing to play for, you are *guaranteed* to be getting more money. So it could be entirely truthful for you to say that you haven’t even considered the money as part of the deal, because you know for a fact that whatever happens, you’ll get more money than you do now. And let’s be honest, you’re not exactly minimum wage here.
But that aside, let’s take your statement at face value. The money doesn’t matter, but you desire footballing glory. The issue I take with this statement is that it’s somehow supposed to have more legitimacy or be a more worthy desire than simply going for cash, and frankly, I disagree. Let’s say RVP follows Nasri over to Eastlands. When Nasri went, City weren’t champions, but were certainly on the up and up. I don’t really follow them closely, but let’s assume Nasri played an important role in getting the team to that stage. At this point in time, whether they nab Van Persie or not, it’s pretty safe to say that City will have a very decent chance of retaining their title. So this move, inspired by a “desire to win trophies”, would essentially equate to him being unable to achieve his goals with Arsenal (and don’t get me wrong, I’m not so blinkered as to think this team is only a whisker from winning the league again, I’m perfectly aware of our weaknesses), and instead walking straight into a team that’s already done it. Show up, kick the ball around a bit, collect your trophy. Okay, so that’s an oversimplification and doesn’t do justice to the amount of hard work required by any team in the world to win their league, but I suppose what I’m asking is, where’s the glory there? Look at Fabregas. Leaves Arsenal after years of not quite making it, and joins the greatest club in the world. Sure, the trophies will start pouring in (well, it seems Madrid have a thing or two to say about that), but that was happening before he got there.
I guess at the end of it, I just can’t understand how saying what essentially equates to “Oh, this team isn’t winning enough, I want to join a team where they’re winning. I want a trophy!” would be somehow more acceptable than just saying “Cash please.” Who knows, maybe I suffer from fandom. Maybe it’s not something that I can understand, sitting in my office chair half way around the world, when the only footballing glory I know about is the one I get vicariously through watching my team on the telly. But I CAN’T change teams. That’s a luxury the fan doesn’t get. You take your pick and that’s it, you’re stuck. So when faced with a decision of either sticking it out with this team for another 2, 3, 10, 20 years or however long it takes for us to win another trophy, or to just jump ship and start going for a team because they’re already winning, it just doesn’t compute.
Christ on a bike. I really didn’t mean to write an essay. Sorry.
Oh and for what it’s worth, RVP is and has been my favourite player of the post-invincibles generation, and for me this is a brutal kick in the teeth. I don’t wanna pretend I know more about it than the rest of us, but trying to grapple with the economics of football while watching it through the eyes of a fan is just becoming this unbearable exercise in futility.
Still, best of luck Robin, wherever you go. At the very least I sure as hell won’t be forgetting last season any time soon. What a fucking performance. Thanks.
Very true. It sometimes appears to me that because the talented players don’t win trophies at one club, they therefore go on and somehow “buy” themselves titles by moving to a rich and hence more successful club — they’re buying themselves titles by earning even more money. Seems like a win-win situation.
We as a fans cannot understand how they throw away our appreciation as we think it should be what’s most important to them, but it isn’t. It’s always been like that and now it’s becoming even worse as there’s even more insane money up for the grab. The better the player gets the more he takes his hero status for granted and, essentially, the less he gives a shit.
I kinda lost my point here, but I think Robin doesn’t realise that realistically he deprived himself of every chance being a hero, cause he certainly won’t be seen as one at arsenal anymore and should he go to City, then what? Yes, he probably will win silverware, but will anybody remember him for that? They buy so many star players, there isn’t really a way to stand out as something special, especially as he won’t play more than 2 years as there will be younger greedy strikers knocking on their door.
To me, that’s a lose-lose situation, but then, what do I know…I’ll never earn 250k a week..
Well Im gutted he’s leaving (and he will leave) but as fabregas, nasri, henry & vieira all left when they were he “best” at the club, we moved on and reached final’s and qualified for the champions league year after year. To prove we aren’t a one man team. Need I mention that Wilshere didnt play a game last season and big players didnt perform (arshavin, ramsey, walcott)
So as sad as I am that RVP is leaving, we have a now fit again Wilshere, a back from playing in the Euro’s Ox, as well as a 100 cap german and top scorer from france. Arsenal will move on and hopefully push on!
Failing that we can always buy Cavani from Napoli
That is such a disappointing statement from the captain of this great club…..will never be considered a great. Just the best of this current team. He’s 30 next year, so get rid. Fuck him.
Let’s punish RvP by sending him on loan to the MLS to think about what he has done.
Send him to the Rapids. I can shout him down from my touchline seats every game.
He would still be working for Stan the Man!!
I believed in you RVP. so disappointed to hear this. we need to get rid of him now or it will just be another episode of last year. Wenger must buy replacement(s) as soon as funds come in and not wait for another 8-2 defeat before buying again!
RVP, I really thought you were better than that.. thanks for the memories though, and good luck.
After coming to blogs to vent my frustration I burst into laugh when reading y’all coments. I totally forgoten my point to write. Thanks blog for giving us this chance.
I guess for RVP the money track has arrived. Well get on it and dont turn around, there is no way back you crock bastard. NO WAY BACK
The nob head ….thats all that comes to mind….
Cant understand any animosity towards RVP. He has been at the club for a long time & given his all. If it wasnt for his amazing performance last year & spurs collapse we wouldnt be anywhere near the champions league this coming season. Cant blame the lad for wanting to go to a club where he feels he can win something, if he was younger i would feel let down but at his age with maybe 3 good years left time is not on his side now & he really cant be expected to wait around anymore hoping that it may happen here. Cant blame him for being unlucky with injuries, if you look at his stats he managed pretty much a goal every 2 games in his injury hit seasons & althought the club admirably stuck by him it wasnt his fault he was injured,
just unlucky or injury prone as some players can be. We are still a great club but no longer a winning club so its understandable better players who want success & trophies will leave. If Top players want the best chance to win things now, well they will go to clubs who have had success in recent times (last 4 or 5 years) these have been Chelsea, Man U, now Man City, Barca, Madrid, Juve, Milan, Bayern. Not us!
I honestly dont think Robin is moving for money & cant blame him going to a club that has recent success & if he goes to one of the clubs mentioned he will be pretty much guaranteed a trophy, you cant say that at the emirates anymore. Its a short career & you cant blame a TOP player wanting a few pots to show for it.
We are still a big club but have not been as successful as the clubs mentioned, obviously there are many reasons for this & the influx of mega money at Chelski & Man City has made the Prem much tougher than when we were pretty much just competing with Man U.
Everybody finds their level & at the moment we cant seem to get the real top players or hold on to our own, this im sure is down to a combination of factors, wages but also IMPORTANTLY how successful we have been for the last few years on the pitch.
example, Chelski get Mata & Hazard (Both targets for us), We get Gervinho & Podolski. Dont take it personally when players leave for a better opportunity, We take many players from other clubs (ok stating the obvious thats what tranfers are!) & their fans are no doubt just as upset to lose their best assets as we are every summer: Arteta from everton came for champions league football like i say dont take it personally.
We are still capable of signing good players but just maybe not the very best?
this is what should have happened rvp to see out his contract win the bloody trophy and leave Arsenal as a great player but he and his agents messed that up real bad didnt they. to come out with this kind of statement is ridiculous.
but still will hold back rather than trashing him till the window closes.
but i can trash DD fuck u dd , your father was right not to spend any time on you because he knew you were always gonna come out as a cunt.
i am just disappointed a captain came out with this statement. What can club to sign playes for six year deal?
because its gonna be same next year with song , kos contracts. recognise the cunts.
and one more thing to van persie.
how does this end speculation ? fuck you should have come out and said it straight away are you gonna leave or see out your contract.
fuck me he is gonna now writing articles for sun isnt he?
SELL HIM….Now we need a new winger and let walcott play in his position (unless walcott does not repeat the same saga)…..We are sure gonna win something next year….
you can go
I would like to know what Gazidis is doing on a two week holiday in America at this moment. Surely this is the most critical time for him to be working! Would of been a lot wiser to take holiday during the euro’s when top players are not available! What a joke.
The club have confirmed he’s not on holiday. so regardless of which side you’re on it seems pretty silly for him to make such a statement. Whatever was said and done a blatant lie like that does his position no favours whatsoever. He has either been directly misinformed or is trying to play the fans against the board/club. Not everybody who leaves the club or wants to move is a cunt but those who try to act all innocent and try to clutch at the heartstrings of the fans deserve no respect.
The only 2 constants in football are fans and the club….players come and go….some are heroes forever while others are despised. Rvp’s biggest folly in time will be his unnecessary and possibly childish attempts at getting the fans to square off against the club over claims of ‘ambitions’ that he very clearly is not willing to divulge. Na$ri was just mercenary, this guy is also a little too stupid for his own good.
Why does he feel the need to have a dig at the club, something is not right. I am with the club though, players do come and go. I just expected more from Van Persie. Kicked us in the teeth!
My approach might be childish, but, I will tell you what we need to do.
We do not sell him this year. We do not play him in even the Mickey Mouse Cup. We let him rot on the training ground and leave for a bosman. Anyway, we haven’t even spent a million on him to make a significant loss. Then we will see if the oil clubs will still be interested to sign him for the wages he is dancing to now. That will teach some these mercenaries a lesson!
I only hope.
BREAKING NEWS: RVP seems to have contracted the Nasri virus. He is showing signs of amnesia and greed. Might be sent to manchester for treatment.
Fcuk RvP u cunt. May a cruciate ligament be ur next injury u pussy disloyal punk.
robin owes arsenal! He’s been injured constantly for 6/7 seasons and has been happy to collect his salary during that time while arsenal stood by him and waited for him to produce. Then in his penultimate season with us he suddenly becomes one of the best strikers in the world and goes through the season mostly uninjured. Call me a cynic but this is just too much of a coincidence for me.
We are in danger of becoming a feeder club for middle eastlands so ffs arsenal please don’t sell him to them. I would rather see him sitting in the reserves for a year than move north!
What……………a……………cunt!
When will FFP kick in and stop this shit from happening or is it just a load of UEFA hot air.
What’s most damning is the hypocrisy of the whole thing. If you want to win trophies and bring the club back to its glory days, why not stay and do that? Fair enough that someone wants to experience the glamour and all of winning, but are you really just going to jump on the Mercenary City bandwagon just to do that – what about tradition, collective culture, being a part of something – not just being a glory hunting ego maniac?
And if you claim to care about the Arsenal so much, why go about it in this way – with nae respect at all?
For what it’s worth, I don’t think it’s about ambition – Arsenal and Wenger don’t invest the huge amounts they have in development etc. without the desire to win and dominate. It’s just that RVP supposedly doesn’t think the Arsenal way can succeed … ironic for a guy who cost 2.75 million from Feynoord …
Van Persie has a point about the club lacking ambitionbut where is the loyalty after Arsenal looked after him during his long injury periods?