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van Persie sold to Man United

Nela

I'm with Biggus on this. I'm actually looking forward to the end of that era. Clean sweep.

I never liked how RvP centric everything about last season was. We had a lot of players who worked hard and made significant contributions without getting the proper credit.

Wenger of course contributed to this by constantly going out in the media thinking that if he contually flatters someone it will breed loyalty. It doesn't Arsene. So stop going out of your way to show loyalty to players who have none for you. Your only loyalty should be to AFC.

Mirth

Yeah, I was cool with Nasri leaving until he mouthed off to the press (which he later claimed was misquoted or something)

To his credit, Nasri was willing to see his contract out to the end and even played against Liverpool while Cesc sulked in his mansion.

Gunner89

Cesc went on strike and wanted to go to one club.

Persie has compromised our position and shown disrespect.

Both are the same.

Rohit

We should sell him to the highest bidder. No way should we keep a player with no desire to be here and let him be our first choice striker.

Mirth

Nela wrote:
Wenger of course contributed to this by constantly going out in the media thinking that if he contually flatters someone it will breed loyalty. It doesn't Arsene. So stop going out of your way to show loyalty to players who have none for you. Your only loyalty should be to AFC.

Wut. Pretty obvious that we had no other way to play but to pander to van Persie because all our attackers were so shit. Nothing to do with flattery or loyalty.

Timbob

I have more time for Cesc than the other two. He may have been a cunt with the way he left, but at least he was genuinely world class for quite a few seasons for us and didn't leave the first time someone offered him a fortune.

Nela

No, he does it all the time. He tried it with Arshavin when he first went to shit. It's a pretty obvious tactic.

Rohit

He very obviously wants to go to City and doesn't want us to jeer him.

These players are conscious about their image.

Timbob

I wonder what the 96% of fans who've just renwed their season tickets are thinking right now? #refund

Shady

Captain wrote:
qs! wrote:
I've expected him to leave for months, its the statement and the way he's doing it thats annoyed me.

Cesc goes on strike and lowers his value but is a hero to the masses and deserves to move to his boyhood club.

VanPersie says that he wants ambition or whatever and forces his sale with a statement on his personal site; the masses will say he was right and deserved to leave.

Nasri wants to go but says nothing, plays pre-season, plays first game of the season before eventually being sold for a good price. He's a judas cunt who chased the money.

:confused:

Nasri flirted with Man Utd on live television.

Mirth

Nela wrote:
No, he does it all the time. He tried it with Arshavin when he first went to shit. It's a pretty obvious tactic.

Wenger's talked up Carlos Vela and Emmanuel Eboue as well. Means nothing.

asajoseph

If we're planning to reinvest the cash, sell to the highest bidder (including City). If not, might as well sell him to Juve for the £8m they supposedly offered us last week.

Gunner89

David Ornstein ‏@bbcsport_david
Arsenal will release a statement in response to Van Persie comments on their official website shortly #bbcfootball #afc

Klaus

He was never going to renew his contract once it became obvious that he could earn twice as much elsewhere. I'm glad that he makes his intentions clear so early. He really shouldn't pretend that Arsenal means anything special to him though. Just bugger off to City for as much money we can possibly get. If he leaves soon we'll have a decent chance of reinvesting a bit of the money in the squad. Stark contrast to last year.

Nela

Sell him to PSG, they'll pay big. Or Malaga.

asajoseph

What's the point of arguing whether he's going for success or money? Aren't we always hearing that they're basically the same anyway?

RC8

We should have never sold Vieira 😆

Ray

One way to test it would be to throw the bank at him like united did with rooney, see if he stays then? Can only see him going to juventus.

TambourineMan

Meh it was always going to happen. Best we can hope is a swap with Madrid for Higuian or City for Tevez. Unfortunately we'll have Giroud leading the line struggling to find his feet.

Klaus

I'm not that bothered by all of this. The main con is that we lose yet another name that would attract others but it's not like we sign star players anyway. Robin was realistically never going to have a season like the last one again. He's almost thirty and injury prone as fuck. Offering him £150K per week for four years would've been a poor investment in all likelihood. It would've secured a player of his stature for a while longer, however. I can't see us signing anyone who's even close to his level and that's the problem. We're banking on Wilshere to get back and be brilliant right off the mark. It's a bit risky.

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