robin van persie (continued)

[dctid]

Well as much as I tend to take what the papers say with a pinch of salt, The Times is one of the more reputable publications and they were claiming RvP had agreed terms with us months ago, a story they have a re-iterated a few times since. Of course, I'll never take any transfer as 100% gospel until it actually happens but I'd be surprised if The Times had plucked that story out of thin air.

I suspect the problem isn't that RvP can agree terms with City... the issue is whether or not Arsenal will sell him to us.

Two completely different things.

Player power wins all the time,especially one who's in the last year of a contract-not a chance that he will stay there.

Theres something badly wrong at Arsenal,leaving all your top players in the last year of contracts.

There is nothing a club can do about it - if a player wants to let his contract run out the club are powerless - what Le Arse have not addressed are the reasons why these guys are leaving and secondly their refusal to accept the fookin obvious and get shut asap

City are in a similar position with DJ - personally i would say thank you and have him out the door if he dont sogn a new contract - no hard feelings from me just a thank you

It will at some point be City this happens too Tevez / Yaya / Silva / Aguero take your pick - the best clubs manage this process Rags being the bench mark

 

[flb]

I suspect the problem isn't that RvP can agree terms with City... the issue is whether or not Arsenal will sell him to us.

Two completely different things.

Player power wins all the time,especially one who's in the last year of a contract-not a chance that he will stay there.

Theres something badly wrong at Arsenal,leaving all your top players in the last year of contracts.

There is nothing a club can do about it - if a player wants to let his contract run out the club are powerless - what Le Arse have not addressed are the reasons why these guys are leaving and secondly their refusal to accept the fookin obvious and get shut asap

City are in a similar position with DJ - personally i would say thank you and have him out the door if he dont sogn a new contract - no hard feelings from me just a thank you

It will at some point be City this happens too Tevez / Yaya / Silva / Aguero take your pick - the best clubs manage this process Rags being the bench mark

City certainly know this with Tevez,Yaya will spend the best years of his career here at the age he is now,Aguero without doubt will do 3 seasons here then move onwards.Silva is renewing his to a fresh 5 year deal.

with Arsenal they should have tied up Van Persie with 2 years left on his contract,same with Nasri and by all accounts Walcott.

 

[M18CTID]

I heard it was done at Christmas which is when I put my £20 on.

Well as much as I tend to take what the papers say with a pinch of salt, The Times is one of the more reputable publications and they were claiming RvP had agreed terms with us months ago, a story they have a re-iterated a few times since. Of course, I'll never take any transfer as 100% gospel until it actually happens but I'd be surprised if The Times had plucked that story out of thin air.

I suspect the problem isn't that RvP can agree terms with City... the issue is whether or not Arsenal will sell him to us.

Two completely different things.

I'm not disputing that. I'm just alluding to the story in The Times that claimed RvP was willing to come to us and had agreed terms. I'm fully aware that for such a move to happen his parent club has to agree to sell him to us.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I suspect the problem isn't that RvP can agree terms with City... the issue is whether or not Arsenal will sell him to us.

Two completely different things.

Player power wins all the time,especially one who's in the last year of a contract-not a chance that he will stay there.

Theres something badly wrong at Arsenal,leaving all your top players in the last year of contracts.

There is nothing a club can do about it - if a player wants to let his contract run out the club are powerless - what Le Arse have not addressed are the reasons why these guys are leaving and secondly their refusal to accept the fookin obvious and get shut asap

City are in a similar position with DJ - personally i would say thank you and have him out the door if he dont sogn a new contract - no hard feelings from me just a thank you

It will at some point be City this happens too Tevez / Yaya / Silva / Aguero take your pick - the best clubs manage this process Rags being the bench mark

united are, sadly, the benchmark for this.

 

[flb]

Well as much as I tend to take what the papers say with a pinch of salt, The Times is one of the more reputable publications and they were claiming RvP had agreed terms with us months ago, a story they have a re-iterated a few times since. Of course, I'll never take any transfer as 100% gospel until it actually happens but I'd be surprised if The Times had plucked that story out of thin air.

I suspect the problem isn't that RvP can agree terms with City... the issue is whether or not Arsenal will sell him to us.

Two completely different things.

I'm not disputing that. I'm just alluding to the story in The Times that claimed RvP was willing to come to us and had agreed terms. I'm fully aware that for such a move to happen his parent club has to agree to sell him to us.

Its £20 miilion this July or fuck all next July,even Wenger with his business degree and claims of "financial doping" knows its going to happen-if he doesnt then without doubt his cheese has slipped off his cracker.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I suspect the problem isn't that RvP can agree terms with City... the issue is whether or not Arsenal will sell him to us.

Two completely different things.

I'm not disputing that. I'm just alluding to the story in The Times that claimed RvP was willing to come to us and had agreed terms. I'm fully aware that for such a move to happen his parent club has to agree to sell him to us.

Its £20 miilion this July or fuck all next July,even Wenger with his business degree and claims of "financial doping" knows its going to happen-if he doesnt then without doubt his cheese has slipped off his cracker.

"Financial doping".

Is there a bigger snob and hypocrite in football?

 

[totallywired]

I'm not disputing that. I'm just alluding to the story in The Times that claimed RvP was willing to come to us and had agreed terms. I'm fully aware that for such a move to happen his parent club has to agree to sell him to us.

Its £20 miilion this July or fuck all next July,even Wenger with his business degree and claims of "financial doping" knows its going to happen-if he doesnt then without doubt his cheese has slipped off his cracker.

"Financial doping".

Is there a bigger snob and hypocrite in football?

Whiskey nose.

 

[flb]

I'm not disputing that. I'm just alluding to the story in The Times that claimed RvP was willing to come to us and had agreed terms. I'm fully aware that for such a move to happen his parent club has to agree to sell him to us.

Its £20 miilion this July or fuck all next July,even Wenger with his business degree and claims of "financial doping" knows its going to happen-if he doesnt then without doubt his cheese has slipped off his cracker.

"Financial doping".

Is there a bigger snob and hypocrite in football?

Hes pathetic,he forgets his club borrowed money they didnt have to build a new stadium.

Martin Samuel got it right,for years they have cherry picked Frances best players from lesser clubs and "nurtured them" for a profit and he moans when big bad City,Barcelona and Cheslea make "his players" better offers.<br /><br />-- Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:55 am --<br /><br /><a class="postlink" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2175101/Robin-van-Persie-decision-Saturday.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... urday.html</a>


Sounds like its warming up

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Its £20 miilion this July or fuck all next July,even Wenger with his business degree and claims of "financial doping" knows its going to happen-if he doesnt then without doubt his cheese has slipped off his cracker.

"Financial doping".

Is there a bigger snob and hypocrite in football?

Whiskey nose.

I disagree with this. Taggart has many failings but I distinctly recall he never once criticised Chelsea in terms of where their money came from. I think the same is true with his comments about us, at least publicly. Wenger, however, constantly makes reference to it like he's somehow got the moral high ground and his shits don't stink.

That said, Taggart did describe us as a "smal club with a small mentality" which is pretty snooby to be fair!!

Let's call it a dead heat.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Player power wins all the time,especially one who's in the last year of a contract-not a chance that he will stay there.


Theres something badly wrong at Arsenal,leaving all your top players in the last year of contracts.

Player power does not win "all the time".

I'm sure RvP is off though, but we can't just assume because he has allegedly agreed a deal with City that it will happen.

Many hurdles still to climb!

I've heard that Wenger has said that he wouldn't sell us a virus.

That was mis-heard (must be something to do with those Alsatian, nasal tones). What he actually said was that he wouldn't sell us a Wireless, which came as a grave disappointment, I must say....