Either Van Persie is staying or I just don’t know how to grieve
July 11, 2012
I’ve got an early meeting this morning so this will have to be a short one.
Good thing too as actual Arsenal news is fairly thin on the ground. You know things are bad when fans on Twitter don’t even have any spurious transfer gossip to talk about and have instead resorted to spurious kit gossip. Apparently an Adidas employee tweeted that Arsenal were in conversation with the company about a new kit deal to kick off from the 2013/14 season.
On a personal level I’d be pleased if it were true. I’ve not been hugely impressed with a lot of the kits Nike have done for us since they took over from Adidas in 1993. But at the same time I’m struggling to get myself excited about a kit deal that may well be a figment of someone’s imagination. This waiting to hear how the RVP situation is going to resolve itself is doing my head in. I want answers. I want to know how our squad is shaping up for the new season. Kit gossip isn’t going to cut it.
There was a flutter of news on the RVP front yesterday as Sky Sports News briefly ran a story from reporter Dharmesh Sheth who stated that an insider at the club had told him there was a chance of a U-turn from the player. He seemed to think that Van Persie could go back on his statement and sign a new contract. Sky withdrew the story from their website later in the day and nobody seems to be any the wiser as to what’s going on.
It seems a fairly unlikely scenario I have to say. That statement didn’t leave much room for interpretation. The man wanted out. You could argue that it was one last attempt to force the board’s hand and get whatever it was that he wanted, be it a bigger salary or a promise of bigger name signings to come in and join him but if that was what he was after I’m sure he could have made those threats privately. There’d be little need to risk destroying his relationship with the fanbase in order to make his point.
Frankly a U-turn of this magnitude could land him a place in the Tory cabinet but if it happened I wouldn’t be complaining. If he did it the right way, said the right things and distanced himself from the right agents I’m sure there’d still be a way back for him both at the club and in the hearts of the supporters. But see what’s happened? They’ve got me thinking about it. They’ve got me thinking about the possibility of it happening and it just won’t. I thought denial was supposed to be the first stage of grief. I’ve already been through anger and depression. I can’t even grieve properly.
Great. Now I’ve got to go to my meeting all backwards grieving.
Thanks a lot, Arsenal.
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A u- turn of any sort is welcome, atleast for me. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean i’ve forgiven and forgotten that ugly statement from a man i once looked up for, not atleast for now.
RVP’s statement left little for doubt. The guy wanted out. How true that is. He has cast the die and Arsenal must seize the opportunity to get rid asap.
Imagine the atmosphere in the dressingroom if he was allowed to stay.
I recall the last seasons of Henry and Fabregas and we don’t want a repeat of those.
the earlier he make that much awaited u-turn is d better 4 him
I can’t see him stayin now unless he has some wonderous explanation for these comments. Cash in on him now and use the money to solidify the backline.
We have Wally, Chambo, Arteta, Gervinho(hopefully if he leans to finish over the summer),Jack(hopefully and vermaelan who are all capaple of scoring 10 a season and hopefully Giroud and Pod more like 15-20.
Thanks for another intelligent blog!
I’d hate to be a new Arsenal player coming in under this cloud. It’s time for a lot more support for our newcomers – they’re the future.
We have a great side. We finished 3rd with a shocking amount of injuries, without those injuries who knows?
RVP’s statement is so bad I wonder how real it is.
Anyway my eyes are on N’Zonzi.
Classic nicky. Although ‘getting rid immediately’ is what other clubs are probably licking their lips at and unfortunately it weakens the club’s bargaining power. Still, get it done now before waiting for City to lowball us with an offer in August, disrupting the start of the season.
Wowzers, I wouldn’t place a 10 goal responsibility on a centre back! Actually that kind of thinking kind of feels like part of the problem. If he and kozzer could work on a partnership that keeps more clean sheets next season, it would be more effective than 10 goals…
he is going. Lets move forward and get a replacement asap so he can settle in using the pre season games.
RVPs statement was designed to give the message that he is going. This was not some kind of tantrum-it was consistent with his behaviour at the end of last season. He’s going- but where?
Its not worth it to Arsenal to sell him to a rival for 15m. Paris don’t want him, unlikely step down to Italy- no sign of Barca possessing the money, and Madrid have no need to spend.
United? Would seriously upset the fan base to see him strutting his stuff for those scumbags, as would a move to Chelsea. City- he’d run a real risk of becoming a squad player.
Whilst Wenger is myopic and naive enough to sell him to a rival so that he scan get some cash to try to buy a replacement- he would be very wise not to.
I believe it’s in Arsenal FCs best interests to sell RvP abroad. Even if its for £10million less than we’d get for him in England. Do we really want to see ANOTHER Arsenal star in a City shirt even if we do get a stupid amount of money for him.
We are never going to buy a striker who is as good as him and any Gooners thinking we haven’t already bought his replacement are living in cloud cuckoo land!
We can’t shift Chamakh because his wages are too high. He got a nice package because we signed him on a free but now no-one is willing to pay a fee for him and French & Italian Clubs can’t afford him. That leaves us with 3 strikers who can play through the middle not counting Theo.
Wenger might splash out again if we lose Theo and RvP because those two together contributed to about 85% of our goals last season. But I would be surprised again because we’ve got The Ox needing more game time as well as Gervinho plus Ryo who might step up to the 1st team.
RvP leaving will weaken us and once again we will be in a position where we are unlikely to challenge for Silverware. Why our players think they have nothing to do with our success or lack thereof I cannot fathom! If RvP stayed with us and Theo signed on – plus Podolski & Giroud with maybe one or two more signings we as fans would actually believe we had a squad strong enough to compete. But now he has shat on the Club he “loves” Theo will be eyeing the door and all of a sudden we’ve taken 2 steps backwards!
I actually like some of the Nike kits – the recent ones have been great in my opinion – ’08, the 125th anniversary kit and after a while of getting used to it the new one are all snazzy to me.