Arsenal Rumours Archive July 04 2012

04 Jul 2012 21:13:25
Just read on a couple of sites that RVP won't be renewing his contract. That sucks

Gooner Grant

Van Persie has let us all down, we sang his name with such joy and now he does this, an utter disgrace.

Imo. The move to the emirates caused us a financial headache due to the massive payments. The board see that we have 'coped' without spending and stumbling on as top player after top player walks out the revolving front door. Too many people on the board see our club as a gravy train. We need a change at board level and invest before its too late. We can only continue for so long with average players and the promise of youth

Yet well done mate. Your a quick one aren't you? What sites did you read this on. Www.robinvanpersie.com? Cause it's on there his official site so you know

He is going man utd not city yanky has to go look what they did at liverpool

He hasn't let us down at all. He wants to win trophies. Simple. Unfortunately he won't do that with us.

Paul - Rochester

LFC fan in peace here.

Chin up Gooners, you have survived the loss of big names before now and AW always seems to have a trick or two up his proverbial....

Love watching you for the way football should be played.

Best wishes for the comming season

John

His post on his website was done by his agent , he criticised the board and manager so they would sell him in the summer , don't let him kid you, its all about getting a big final pay day , with his injury record you can't blame him .

04 Jul 2012 18:41:28
This news (RVP) will cost the club over 5 m on marketing and T-shirt sales and God knows how many more are we going to loose on the trip to Asia and Africa?

He is an Icon for the club {Ed022's Note - You couldn't be more wrong. Arsenal did everything they could to persuade RVP but all he was interested in was holding the club he so dearly 'loves' to ransom from a financial perspective. If Arsenal would have offered him the contract he demanded, then Arsenal would be losing a lot more than '5 million'. Trust your club mate.}

Ed if u knew anything about this u would have commented before todays story so dont act like u know the details when u dont.
bet this dont get thru {Ed022's Note - Ok then I shalln't say anything more on the matter on this page.}

The guy wants trophies, he clearly knows the club wont be spending enough to make this happen. Cant blame him but hope he goes abroad but Man City must be favourites

They better sell him like now before the start of the new campaign. I can't believe he refused to sign a new contract. I wish him all the best with his injuries

Well said ED !! {Ed027's Note - he knew if he said rbp would leave, hed get slaughtered, he tells us the reason and he still gets slaugtered

For what its worth ED im with you, gutted he's going but he owes us a lot more than we owe him. Look at the players that truly love the club, Write, Herny, they never left for the riches else where & if we hadnt stood by him in his injury hell he might well be playing at a lower level now.

Ashman

Wants to win trophies!!!!!
I think with the two signings, mvila and with the return of wilshere we had a chance.
Personally as a 20 yr season ticket holder lets get rid and try and find players who want to help take the club to the next level.
Has to be sold now do not want to see Rvp with the captains armband next season

"Ed if u knew anything about this u would have commented before todays story so dont act like u know the details when u dont.
bet this dont get thru " - moron, learn to spell.

If you haven't seen this coming for miles then more fool you. It's been blatantly obvious to anyone with any level of intelligence that Van Persie was gone before the last ball of the season was kicked. He's been looking at the green grass on the other side of the fence for some time now. Your board are partly to blame but I reckon he's probably fairly mercenary and that his talk of "love" for the club is just to appease the fans. Fact of it is money talks and I reckon he'll go to the highest bidder. Sadly, that may be City. No respect for the bloke if that's the case.

All problems at Arsenal stem from the board. Those of you that would like to see Wenger's head roll need to have a think about who would fill his boots. Who could keep you in the top four with a board as incompetent as yours? Who? No-one, that's who! But hey, let's hope you all get what you wish for...then comes mid-table anonymity!

I'm not an Arsenal fan myself (waits for "what's it got to do with you" comments) but love watching your club play football. Your style of play is a joy to watch and I believe Wenger's philosophy will eventually pay off...if the board back him in the way they should.

Also, looking across these boards the Arsenal fans do more whingeing than pretty much all of the other clubs supporters. Spend more time cheering your team on then slagging 'em off and you'd do a lot better I reckon.

I hope Arsenal really do achieve something next year, even just a cup would set things in motion I reckon. As for Van Persie, good riddance to bad rubbish if he's as mercenary as I suspect!

Youre wrong ed he said it wasnt nothing to do with money he said his ideas and arsenals ideas of going forward wernt the same so that means no big signings fact {Ed027's Note - okay you continue to believe him

Its ridiculous a player decides to leave and the inevitable "money grabber" and "greed" get banded about. Lets look at the facts the guy is already a multi millionaire, guaranteed a big pay day in the US or China at the end of his career so i personally dont see money as his main incentive. He carried the team pretty much single handedly lastyear. Thank the lad and move on

I agree that with progress the club have made already transfer wise, then him sayin the club aren't going in the right direction is just an excuse. Let's get it right, he was a great player for us (when fit), but he had his first injury free season, maybe it's time to collect what we can out of this. As long as we use the money unlike when fabregas left, then we can push on from last season. We lost 2 big players this time last year in fabregas and nasri, only this time we have lost a forward and replaced him with 2. We have lacked strength in depth over recent years, I'm with the ed, I too say have belief in the club

Stockport Gooner

If we have offered him lets say 300k pw I am absolutely sure he would have signed without a second thought. Money rules

How many injury years had with us? we kept faith in him and dis is how we get repaid! its all about the money

Van persie always scored more than 10 goals every season he was here. It is much more than our other 'strikers' who earned close to that. He doesn't owe us anything. I wish he stays a year more but it seems all the more unlikely now.

Have to agree with the editor here. Van Persie was no saint when he was a young player and had one full season fir in eight seasons. Wenger showed a lot of faith in him and he ransomed Wenger's trust at too high a price. Will be sad to see him go but he's no bigger than the Arsenal.

Stewart

We kept faith in injured Robin but 120k or whatever it is a week isn't good enough? - If I was Leo Messi I'd say I'm ecstatic with 50k a week and use the rest in a charitable manner. Plus if he wants trophies surely with the transfers so far it would indicate we should be title challengers. Get rid of RVP to the highest bidder.

Wit the signings we made so far an possibility of few more to join i cant see the reason rvp wud want too leave the club seein as we stood by him in all his injury troubles then he throws it back in wengers face like this i for 1 say gud riddance get as much money as possible asap an move on hopefully as wenger has proved in the past wit letting players go due too wage demands he can be replaced wit someone who wants too play for the team not the money and yas can say wat yas like hrvp is a money grabber if he leaves

04 Jul 2012 23:47:10
How many of Wengers signings are you lot happy with......the Brazilian left back? One game Park? 6ft 7" german who cant head the ball.......maybe its not about money.......but i would love to see Walcott go (not good enough).....play the ox.

Ok ed please make this clear ok rvp is not signing a new contract why does he state he is going to meet with ivan and if any developments happens he will say I'm confused on this as he has come out publicly he won't stay {Ed027's Note - he said he wont stay beyound next year for certain, this meeting is to see where will he be for the upcoming season

He shouldn't be making this comment from his own website, that's a very ill advised move on the part of his agent, no doubt to put himself up for sale while the window is young. So much for loving the club.
Viera, Henry, Cesc, we survived them all, and we will survive RVP. Step up TV5, lets have a captain for >2yrs for once.
Ed thanks for telling it as it is, you don't hold a club you love to ransom like that.

cch

04 Jul 2012 12:27:57
ed when dose pre-season start? and do you think there will be any more signings complete before it dose start? and dose any1 know anything thing about wilshere and sagna's injures because keep hearing they are both out till mid september then i hear they will be fit to start the season?
cheers


KAY9 {Ed002's Note - The players will in the main be back this week for preseason.}

And does any Arsenal fan want a dose of education? Jees........ I heard it was a bit simple over here, but I didnt realise it was such a vacuum. Although this would of course be in keeping with the library....

Finish above you every year. Thick scum.

Thick? Last time I looked, exit polls show our support to have the highest proportion of university grads? Isn't it you lot that run around with pitch forks and loose teeth. If the caps fits son....

I think your day in sun is just about done now, so move out the way, theres a good chap....

04 Jul 2012 16:32:52
Allan McGregor to Arsenal for free

heard it in Glasgow a great signing if true and free

Hope this is true

Would be great back up for Szczesny.

Hes good but not bril waste of wages if u ask me. we might as well buy a keeper thats worth it cos lets be honest thats the only thing weve lacked over the last 5 seasons

N.E.L gunner

@n.e.l only thing we lacked? if only that was what we lacked lol
we lacked proper board members with ambition we lacled the giroud style of true cf we lacked goal scoring cam we lacked aireal cbs we lacked rock solid cdm like viera we lacked passion likr tony adams we lacked players who love arsenal thru n thru all we had so far are players in it for pay chque n those who used us as a spring board into "bigger clubs" greener grasses and apparently we still lack fans who see this
gimmeg6

Well yea i supose but look at ouf keepers weve ended up with. absolutly rubbish most of them. personaly i think grioud wont do as much as most think he can. if rvp goes then we need a 20 a season goal scorer n grioud or podolski aint tht

Over the last five years. Lacked a goal scoring cam? Urm fabregas? Nasri?, fair enough a cdm. We needed a great goal keeper. Sczezney is loveable but he isn't a great goal keeper. He let in more goals then any other in the prem last year just so your aware. Vermalen loves arsenal and just renewed his contract. But you are right if every player could be jack Wilshire. We would be an unreal club

Believe me id love to believe that tv5 loves arsenal etc all that lovley boll*cks but didnt rvp say that didnt fab say that? didnt nasri beef with gallas for leaving arsenal? how many players claim they love us yetleave us for one reason or another. fab case may be the nobler ones but the result is that he is no longer with us regardless...
yea c.a.m we need the pires style
anyways we need players who WANNA play for us cus we are the mighty gunners not for the pay cheque
gimmeg6

Players lack the love for the club but i agree we defo need another striker if rvp goes. msybe sum one like teves who knows wher the back of the net is. and we definatly need a nee goal keeper we conceed to many goals but thats also down to the defence. we need a centre back aswell some one tgat isnt affraid to get a foot in. our whole team need to up a gear to compete for anything in the 2012-2013 season........ kboi

How can u say conceding most goals is Szczesny fault?!? the reason we conceded most goals is because of our defensive injuries not the goalkeeper, he kept us in quite a few games last year and is one of the best keepers in the prem

SCHZ is the best goalie we have had since Lehman. lets wait and see if he go's on to surpass Lehman and then Seaman!. i would be happy with Mcgregor

04 Jul 2012 00:58:44
Ed, is there any interest in javi martinez as an option for dcm? {Ed022's Note - Even if there was it wouldn't make a difference, as Wenger would never ever pay the fee.}

03 Jul 2012 23:34:30
1. Theo to Chelsea for 6 million and Romelu Lukaku.....

2. VP to sign a new contract next week.

3. A possible bid to be made for Santos play-maker Ganso in the region of 12-15 million. He has a release clause of 40 million.

The Insider

I highly doubt we would want Lukaku if RVP is signing a new contract, we'd have 4 strikers then; Podolski, Giroud, RVP, Lukaku and then not to mention Gervinho who can also play up front. I realise Pod and Giroud are possibly meant as wingers in the 4-3-3, but I still feel this is too many attacking options when what we need to focus on now is defence.

-Catscangrowbeardsallover

Yes let's replace a striker on the wing with a striker who can only play CF...makes no sense.

Ibster

Number 1. wud be a very good deal

Are you called the insider because your head is up your a**e! The only one of them that has any chance of coming off is RVP signing a new contract {Ed022's Note - Hahahaha.}

Lukaku is going on loan to West ham. And for Ganso, there were bids from Italy in the region of 30 mil+ rejected by santos. So dream on!

Catscangrowbeardsallover........u r kidding me right? Giroud playing as a winger? No chance mate. Is an out and out centre forward.
Wozza {Ed022's Note - Giroud can drop out to the wings when needed, however in that position he is pretty poor to be fair. Giroud, as you said, is an out and out striker and needs to be played there if he is to be a success.}

Number 2 and 3 are right up my street but number 1 I'm not so sure about. But if all 3 happened I'd have no complaints.

Keep theo and keep rvp these two probably created and scored most of arsenals goals last season - reward them not kick them out.
forward line of rvp, theo, pololski, giroud and gervinho is enough to win the league - we now need to improve the midfield creative centre..................

Haha if RSVP signs a new contract we will reform to a 4 2 3 1 with giroud up top podolski left Walcott right and RSVP behind giroud now that would be a forward line to dream off Walcott is not the best but he can rip teams apart and will support them all with goals lol now we need a DMC and defender

Firstly, I said it's possible to play Giroud as a winger.. not that he would play there. But it's an option.. you wouldn't replace Theo (a winger) with an out and out forward like Lukaku, 'cos he would flail so bad on the wing. If the Theo for Lukaku deal had come about before we'd signed Pod and Giroud, I could have felt somewhat better about it.. but not now.

And secondly, I totally agree with the last poster about the 4-2-3-1 formation.. that would be prefect given the team we have right now. We'd have cover in the Ox and Gerv for both wings.. and Pod and Giroud could interchange for the striker up top. I feel RVP would work extremely well as a deep lying forward, creative player.. rather than the poacher he's been deployed out and out as since he got here. Especially since he's starting to get on now.. he's not far off 30 and past his physical peak.

-Catscangrowbeardsallover.

We dont need theo/ he will never live up to the billing he once had

gervinho ox. myo.

m.villa in right back/cb and left back/ cb that way we hav cover for sagna gibbs and players who can play centre back also

djourou out santos out.

Thats wat u would like to happen

Well looks like your inside info on no 2 was wrong mr "insider"

Knobhead

No.2.... fell on your face there buddy.

much love

Tone the Yid

Yeah whoever posted that nonsense of RVP signing...lol...oops

Van persie has stating leaving. Skysports news

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