Usmanov's response is beautiful.

Now we know the real reason for the skinflinting

From the RVP thread

Full scale civil war at Islington Library - luvverly jubberly

Gooners are livid with RVP and can`t understand why he would want to leave a club who have been top of the league for 7 weeks.

It's the way he's gone about it that stings. I've been lurking here for a long time and one thing that always confused me was RVP's reputation. A lot of you guys don't think too highly of him as a person, calling him arrogant, a c*nt and stuff. I never understood it until I read that statement yesterday. It was completely unnecessary and done in such a way as to make his position untenable. It's become messy and public and that's his doing, not the club's.

Hilarious how many Arsenal fans distrust him. They think it's horrifying that he would use "oil money" to make them another "City".

As far as I'm concerned, they deserve Kroenke. The fools will keep drinking Wenger kool aid about proper ways to run football clubs until they are mid-table.

Apparently Walcott is considering his future and is in the last year of his contract. How does Wenger always let it get to this with contracts?

Or is it a case of "We tried, but he didn't want to sign so we'll have to sell him" making the player the "bad person" instead of the club?

Dont be so naive mate.

Arsenal knew full well he had no intention of signing and that he wanted out. The signings of Giroud and Podolski tell you that.

Instead of pre-empting the situation and saying they would not be offering him a contract and would be selling him, they cleverly hang him out to dry in front of the fans and make him out to be the **** in all this.

Of course, you gooners lap it up.

Have you all forgot how the football world works?

Fixed that for you. It's only really Arsenal that do the same thing regularly, I'm amazed that their own fans haven't figured it out yet.