Arsenal don't appear to be laughing at us anymore!

I'm no sure that your argument completely holds water. Firstly, he should have
Most definitely been offered a new contract a year or two beforehand. It was clear that despite his injury record ( which, funnily enough, seems to have improved dramatically since being at Utd) it was plainly obvious he was a world class striker - there ain't many of those around!.

Secondly, this is not the first time that the club have allowed a key players' contract to run down, Nasri, for example, springs to mind.


But none of this gets around the question of "why" As I said earlier, he clearly saw a decline in his chances of winning a major trophy - a distinct lessening of ambition. Again, as a fan, I would be very unhappy that my club was willing to sacrifice it's ambition in pursuit of profit.

It is, of course, virtually impossible to stop any player leaving if he's determined to do so. We had similar situations with Modric and Berbatov. However, Levy refused Modric's first attempt at leaving for Chelsea and made it very clear that no way was he going there. Had we not been robbed of CL football by Chavski's incredibly fortunate win, there's a good chance that Levy would have again refused to grant him a transfer.

 

I hope you are right on this. I've never noticed any bitterness from RVP towards Arsenal, and he has a lot of respect (from what I've read) for Wenger. I wonder if he will be less motivated against them, unless Fergie cares about the points record. That is all they have to play for.

RVP is actually the top scorer in the EPL, not sure why he would have to prove anything to his team mates?

 

Sorry but your argument doesn't hold water either, you had the luxury of modric having 4 or 5 years left on his contract, if he only had one year left in 2011 and refused to go anywhere but Chelsea, what do you think levey would have done, there is two choices, sell him to Chelsea or let him walk away for free. Which one do you think he would have chosen?

 

After the way that Abramovich tried to tap Modric up, I really think Levy would have gone for the latter. He made it very clear that no way was he going to Chelsea.

 

If you think that's the case then I would applaud levy for that, however seeing how he operates im not convinced he would have let a player worth 20+ million walk out the door for free but spurs fans know him better than I do. At the time a lot of arsenal fans wanted us to just keep him as well, just to prove a point. Ultimately it was a business decision.

 

As he had quite a few more years left on his contract, Levy held most of the cards. To be honest, I think after half a season training with the youth team, and being left out of the picture, Modric would have come around to getting the idea that he was not going to join Chelsea.

When a player's contract is allowed to run down so far, your options are far more limited.

 

Why are you taking my comments literally on, what was clearly started by me, as a wum thread?

If you take everything I write literally then you must consider me to be a utter imbecile.

 

or I am for responding to the wind ups

 

you've only put this response in to get a bite from a certain somebody who supports the other lot .... you two only exist to give meaning to each others lives on the web

 

Yes, but he is such a hungry little fishie. Well, he keeps coming back for more, anyway.

 

There's no way Levy would have let Modric walk on a free transfer, that is quite simply not in his make up whatsoever.

If Modric only had one year left on his contract during the time he said he wanted to go to Chelsea (not the flower show ) and he had refused to sign for any other club that he was offered to (a la RVP) then Levy would have got all he could from Chelsea for Modric.

 

Finally, something we can agree on

 

How the hell do you know what Levy would or would not do? Who are you, his cleaning lady?

 

As I put in my later post, the situation was different. Modric had several years left on his contract and therefore Levy held most of the cards. Although there was a point where I think Levy was pissed off enough to just let him rot, in reality, he was just playing hardball with him. He could afford, if necessary, to give Modric a year of sitting on his arse, training with the reserves etc, meanwhile his suitors would have forgotten about him.

The main point being, if you allow a key player's contract to run down that far, he holds the cards - not you.

 

And guess what...?

BINGO!

Bang on cue, PESKIE comes along to take an easy pop!

I've got to change my bait, as it's no longer that great a challenge to land me a tasty Gooner-fish.

 

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[NB: what's wrong with the site? It's gone back to double-posting everyones posts! Is there another hacker?]

 

I bet they wish they had, now!

 

I bet they wish they had, now!

 

And this is where the situation with RVP differed, he held all the cards. I think the club shouldn't have allowed this situation to arise in the first place, but they were trying to negotiate a contract with him long before he started angling for a move away. As for Modric, hypothetical as it is, if he was in his last year, then it's my assertion that Levy, known for being tighter than a Duck's Arse, would never have allowed him to leave on a free transfer. He would have sold him to Chelsea as the player was begging to go there (not the flower show)

 

Yes, if it had come to that, maybe so. We'll never know. However, I think Levy learnt his lesson from that scumbag, Judas.

As I've also said, it's not the first time Arsenal have allowed themselves to be put in this position by a player.

I don't believe that RVP's decision to leave was motivated by anything but a desire to win a major trophy. The fact that he didn't see the ambition to do that where he was would worry me, if I were a supporter.