Here's what he had to say about our topic of the week. I appreciate it's from Talksport but it apparently says what he said. Can't argue with that as far as I can see. Somehow I believe our great club should get back to the business of football, not concentrating on a business model that makes money for someone else's business model. That someone else being our majority shareholder of course whose portfolio includes US teams who make him more money than win games.
Spot on we are a football club, however we are just being treated like a regular business and the goal is just to make money for themselves, Unless this changes we will continue to spiral down into mediocrity.
The assumption is that there IS something that the club can do. Most people seem to think that, at least as far as RVP is concerned, there is no way that Arsenal could have acted differently. RVP has refused to extend his contract for two years now. We were in negotiations with him from that point and he would not sign. Walcott the same. Right now, no club has control over their players. No player needs to sign a contract until the last year of their contract, and can wait to see if they might be signed by one of the mega-rich clubs. Continuing to talk as if clubs own players like slaves is disingenuous. The "new" world of football is that every 4 years a player will go to the club who offers him the highest wages. Who held his contract for the previous 4 years, is immaterial. So now we shoud debate whether RVP is worth Arsenal Football club paying 200K/week+ for the next 4 years. And he isn't. Not even close. If Man city want to pay that, then let them. Being sensible, does not mean we are a selling club. We do not "own" RVP, so we can't sell him. We have to adapt to the new world. We have a manager who is very very good at finding new talent and building new teams. We need to embrace that and welcome the new model. Let Man City buy up a bunch of has-beens and over-priced, over-hyped mega-stars, who very quickly will lose their desire to win. If we have to, we will build a new team every 4-years, until the sheiks get bored of investing 150M /year for a trophy that is forgotten after 6 months.
