robin van persie

[Plaything of the gods]

RVP is 28. Isn't that a bit old for an extra striker? Lavezzi is 26. How about that bastard that keeps scoring against us, Cavani? He's only 24.

 

[LoveCity]

Ladyman persists!

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Van Persie next on Man City wishlist as Mancini hails 'fantastic' Arsenal striker
By Ian Ladyman
Last updated at 10:28 PM on 16th December 2011

Roberto Mancini prepares to face Arsenal at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday increasingly determined to sign the Gunners' star striker Robin van Persie next summer.

The Manchester City manager has identified the Holland forward as the man to bring a little more potency and versatility to City's forward line next season.

Mancini knows he will face a battle to persuade Arsenal to sell, especially after the bitterness of last summer's protracted and ultimately successful pursuit of Samir Nasri.

But City are optimistic Van Persie, 28, will not sign a new deal at the Emirates, meaning Arsenal will be forced to sell in the summer as their captain will have only a year left on his contract.

City are not expected to sign any players in January but last night Mancini paid tribute to Van Persie's form that has seen him score 23 goals in 25 appearances for club and country this season.

Mancini said: 'Van Persie is incredible. He is like Sergio Aguero here for us. At the moment he is fantastic. To score all those goals is incredible.'

 

[Andouble]

I think there's probably better places to spend 25+ million than on an older striker.

 

[at200]

id like cavani to replace dzeko in the summer and hazard for tevez asap
not RVP to injury prone for me

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Simply not true.

Convenient to let it stir for a number of reasons, but forget January.

As for the summer, again, City expressing a like for a player, and doing something about it, are two different things.

Van Persie is hardly going to dismiss the speculation with a new contract to be negotiated at Arsenal.

Too old, too expensive, too injury-prone and too convenient a story just a couple of days before a match between the two respective teams.

Ladyboy, Taylor, all of 'em, insisting Nasri wasn't coming to City...he was going to United.

Unless you read differently on here...

We have long-term, young, hungry targets on our scope.

 

[bernabias home shirt]

Simply not true.

Convenient to let it stir for a number of reasons, but forget January.

As for the summer, again, City expressing a like for a player, and doing something about it, are two different things.

Van Persie is hardly going to dismiss the speculation with a new contract to be negotiated at Arsenal.

Too old, too expensive, too injury-prone and too convenient a story just a couple of days before a match between the two respective teams.

Ladyboy, Taylor, all of 'em, insisting Nasri wasn't coming to City...he was going to United.

Unless you read differently on here...

We have long-term, young, hungry targets on our scope.

Anything in the pipeline for jan?

 

[Freestyler]

No thanks.

Cavani would be nice though.

 

[Lord Blue]

at least if we express an interest it could force arsenal to offer RVP more than they had planned :)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...366/Man-City-line-up-30m-Van-Persie-raid.html

MANCHESTER CITY will offer Robin van Persie a £41.6MILLION deal to join them in the summer.
The mega-rich Prem leaders are convinced they will land the Arsenal hitman with a £30m bid.

City are comfortable that Van Persie will not sign a new contract at the Emirates and follow Gunners Samir Nasri, Kolo Toure and Gael Clichy to the Etihad.

Van Persie has just 18 months left on his £80,000-a-week contract but City are planning to offer him a four-year deal worth £200,000 a week.

The Dutch star, 28, will line up against City in Manchester for tomorrow's big match.

And he knows this summer will provide his last chance to make one last big-money move — and he will also realise he has more chance of winning silverware with City.

Van Persie only has one FA Cup winners' medal to show for his seven years at Arsenal.

He is in red-hot form and has 33 Premier League goals so far for Arsenal in 2011.

That puts him only one behind ex-Gunner Thierry Henry and four away from breaking Alan Shearer's record of 36 from 1995.

 

[bluethai]

No thanks.

Cavani would be nice though.

Youger and will be a lot better than Van Pussy in a few years.

 

[Tevez City]

id like cavani to replace dzeko in the summer and hazard for tevez asap
not RVP to injury prone for me

How about Lavezzi & Hazard ?<br /><br />-- Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:45 pm --<br /><br />

Simply not true.

Convenient to let it stir for a number of reasons, but forget January.

As for the summer, again, City expressing a like for a player, and doing something about it, are two different things.

Van Persie is hardly going to dismiss the speculation with a new contract to be negotiated at Arsenal.

Too old, too expensive, too injury-prone and too convenient a story just a couple of days before a match between the two respective teams.

Ladyboy, Taylor, all of 'em, insisting Nasri wasn't coming to City...he was going to United.

Unless you read differently on here...

We have long-term, young, hungry targets on our scope.

Any hints ?