Maybe. According to Alex Fynn (has great contacts at the club), Wenger was prepared to keep Nasri and let him leave on a free but was overruled by the board.
dont you think sitting on the bench for 12 months would have affected his form slightly . plus hes a year older and slower. If hes not going to be sold abroad , you have to do EVERYTHING you can to nullify his threat against US, but nah , we will sell him to a major rival , while hes in his best form ever. smashing .
I doubt RVP would have been a destructive influence to be honest. He is a great pro, and loves his football. I think he would have given his best if we kept him in that final year.
At the end of the day, RVP was a player, not a director, not a C.E.O. but a player. Arsenal were not at his mercy. They allowed him to dictate to us. That's how weak we've become. Instead, we've strengthened a rival (not that it really matters with how **** our season has been) and have become weaker as a team. You can justify it all you want that selling RVP to Man Utd was the logical option but there was always another option.
It really does piss me off seeing a player i supported so much (on and off the pitch i spoke only highly of the man), playing in a Utd shirt.... And worse off, he is the man making the difference.... I feel much worse about RVP being gone than any other recent players that have gone. I really wish we could have done something to keep him but i think he had made his mind up already. To be honest i wish he wasn't a giant gaping ****, and had at least signed an extension for a year or so to make sure we didn' have to try and replace him in a rush. For a guy who sung out about being an Arsenal fan and seemed to be really annoyed that Fabregas and Nasri left, (i mean he even said if he left us he wouldnt g to a rival..) to go and leave us for Utd in the way he did realy showed a lack of class - which i thought he had. Maybe he was always a petulant dutch prick and i just didn't see it!
I don't know if you'd noticed but Jack Wilshere didn't kick a ball for over 12 months but he is now improving game by game.It wouldn't have taken Van Persie long to regain his form.
strikers are a different animal, they HAVE to play to keep sharp, plus Judas is not as young as Jack is he. Let me just quote Mr Wenger again for you . "A big club does not sell its best players. "
I support the boards stance on business in most cases. I think they are doing a god job, i think its important to be top 4, i think its important to spend within our means etc etc..... I support the board in most things. One thing i think they have got horrificaly wrong though is dealing with our players. They get behind Wenger on everything erxcept when it comes to how he wants to deal with the players. The board have stepped in and ensured we have sold our best players as son as offers came in - if i had been up to Wenger i don't think Nasri or RVP would of been allowed to leave until there contracts ran out. I think the comments about big clubs not selling there best players was Wenger getting frustrated and putting a bit of public pressure on the board.
Why the **** have we kept Walcott, who was in the same position as RVP? A year of RVP was worth £24 Mil for me (would have secured CL football). We can now only dream of what would have happened with RVP playing upfront with the likes of Cazorla and Wilshere playing in midfield.
I was as gutted as anybody when RVP left for Utd, but lets not forget that it was the player who forced the club's hand by saying that he didn't want to sign a new contract and didn't want to play anywhere else but for Utd. It ****ing hurt to see that **** shaft us like that, and I would have kept him for his final year, but there was no way the club were going to turn down £24m to see the little **** **** off on a free in the summer.
I think sometimes to get the loyalty we think we deserve from our players we need to play hardball a bit more - force them to respect the structure they are working under.
As I have already said, making him see out his contract. We were not obligated to let him go. So he wanted to join Man Utd? "SO ****ing what" should've been our response. But no, Arsenal saw a chance to cash in and how convenient that RVP was unhappy at the club's progress anyway... just made it easier for the board and Wenger to justify selling him to a team who we once actually used to rival. The board clearly don't give a **** about success on the pitch, just off it. I could understand Henry and Fabregas leaving, at least with Nasri we knew he was a mercenary **** but RVP? This is the biggest betrayal that both he and Arsenal have ever done to the fans and shows how much contempt they treat us with. A big ****ing joke.
