Real Madrid to challenge Man City for Van Persie
It is being reported today that the Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho is preparing to try and tempt Arsenal’s Robin Van Persie to move to La Liga rather than make a big money move to Arsenal’s Premiership rivals Manchester City.
The Mirror says that Mourinho is close to breaking Barcelona’s stranglehold on the Spanish domestic honours and the European plaudits, and wants Van Persie to provide the missing link to confirm that superiority.
They also say that Man City may be willing to pay the prolific Dutchman 250,000 a week to join Samir Nasri and Gael Clichy at the Etihad stadium, but even if he continues to refuse to sign a new contract with the Gunners he would prefer not to move to another English club and upset his relationship with Arsenal fans.
Arsenal bosses believe that Van Persie may stay at the Emirates if Wenger breaks the habit of a lifetime and brings in some top stars like Mario Gotze or Eden Hazard to prove their ambition, but risks losing his captain if he refuses to invest some of Arsenal’s growing transfer surplus.
Would Arsenal fans prefer Van Persie to move to Madrid rather than Man City?
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what a stupid question!!!
of course we hate to see him in either of the teams!!we only want to see him in gunners squad!!!
come on rvp choose passion of football other than money.
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RVP should append his signature and commit to play for gunners for life. The likes of Jose Mourinho and Mancini should not think that Arsenal is a breeding ground.
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For RVP, it’s like the big difference between sleeping with a prostitute (RM or Man shitty) and sleeping with your sweetheart on a Xmas day (AFC)! Now I don’t think the choice is difficult to make here!
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If we loose rvp I will be pissed off!!! but i dont feel like its gonna happen.
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he should make his name at emirates. we can afford 250. if they will have to sell him, then they should sell him to Madrid at a fee of 60m euros. anything less is a crap. after all arsenal is about business.
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Neither madrid nor man city we want van persie to stay at the Arsenal.he is still useful to us,money is nothing to us what we want is the tittle.
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Whether van Persie stays or not we still need to buy a few world class players.When we start talking of salaries in the 250,000 pounds per week bracket it`s hard to use the word `loyalty` in the same breath. Like all Arsenal supporters I would like him to play out his days at Emirates but if he choses otherwise I for one won`t lose any sleep.
Opinions divided. What do you think?
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He will not leave…mark my words.
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RVP will stay. The way he has been playing and leading the other players shows it all
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Hey his all depends on AW,Just have that feeling that we the fans gona be cheated like always which will be extremely sad considering we’ve stuck with club when the chips were really down,but a small bunch of idiots are preparing to cash in on quick bucks. Selfish morons,will be in for a big surprise if will loose RVP.Its time the took the fans seriously otherwise the will be left will be left with an empty shell of a stadium.
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Prefer RVP a gooners till i die….
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Robin Van Persie will choose abroad for sure if he leaves Arsenal and if wenger don’t spend some of that 35 million pound that he has left from players leaving this summer then I think RVP will leave at the end of season. Hate to call it as I’m Arsenal for life.
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RVP is the best player among others players wenger should not take off his hands just like he did to previous players. man c$ti and real mud should go and look another RVP SOMEWHERE but not here in Arsenal.
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Van Persie isn’t like tge others . He love Arsenal an we don’t want him to leave he’s our captain and our savior.
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We need to pay him whatever it takes to keep him at the emirates.. We never buy new world class players, atleast keep the ones we have got!
Gooner 4 life
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Sometimes i felt that this site provided more negatives than positives news.
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WHO ACTUALLY WRITES THIS SHIT…AND ON AN ARSENAL WEBSITE TOO…UNBELEIVABLE
(Err the Mirror….. ADMIN)
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@willyg
I still think that if we made some signings that underlined our ambition, rvp wouldn’t leave for money
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If he eventually wants to end up playing for some yankie ‘soccer’ team then yes go ahead and leave. Look at all our greats that left…they didn’t amount to anything. Henry, Viera, Pires, even Nasri isn’t getting any 1st team games. He would be out of his mind to play for Madrid or any other major team. Arsenal is his home and he is the man here at Emirates. Just looking at our young guns we have so much potential to become the best team in Europe, maybe even the world. The board would be wise to bump up his salary and show how much we appreciate him in AFC, also Wenger sign a world class player in Jan to show guys like RvP, Walcott etc that we mean business in winning titles.
Just another thought, what good is it winning titles with teams like Madrid, City, if you don’t even play in the majority of those games? It’s like you don’t even deserve those trophies. At least with Arsenal, he knows that every victory won and future silverware, a great deal of the sweat and blood shed was of his own.
We love you RvP, stay, win trophies and become a true Arsenal legend like your fellow dutchman Bergkamp.
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Rvp will not leave.He would have requested a transfer and also watch how samir nasri’s form dropped when he wanted to leave.All these r signs v.P should consider b4 making a decision…Nasri.Toure,gallas,henry,pires,reyes,flamini,clichy,hleb,lehmahn, how many have played well since leaving the gunnas..To cap it all i dont see Robin Van Persie leaving the Emirates sooner..Peace out,all these are normal routine rumours.
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I believe Wenger has learnt his mistake with Nasri and will buy a couple of players in January to keep RVP. The Prof knows all too well, as we do, that releasing RVP in this type of form is JUST NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!
RVP loves Arsenal, but we still have to give him what he wants……Ambition to WIN.
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Robin van persie isn’t an idiot, he won’t leave the emirate stadium, he is at his peak… Please van persie don’t leave… Mancity and real madrid will kill ur carer just look back and see what happened to our one time hero “henry”…up gunnerz
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Ya henry only went on and won the champions league. Got paid double what we paid him and won la liga. Nothing much/…..
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im jst really emotional on watching the match and am woried about the
performance from the first half.even rvp nt hving the best of his days,bt
yet he saves us.evryone shud step up.player such as walcott need to hv
cnfidence to finish himself,like what he did against udinese.he dnt do any
wrong jst sometimes hes dcision making is wrong.gervinho stil working
on hes finishing.dfence good,djourou as usual prone to errors bt othrs managed to covered for him.espcialy arteta n song is exceptional in the
middle,espcialy song.when frimpong gt in and holds in the middle.hes
loving the free role and hes vision is even better than rambo.rosicky shud
b play ahead of rambo in the next match.rosicky is the creative playmaker
nw for us.rambo stil unimpresive.sory guys.no ofence,he stil has a lot to
improve.no wonder some ppl says he is one of the boring footballer.he stil cn developed further bt i jst dnt see he realy connected with arteta.wud
prefered arteta with rosicky.
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bt overall i think song is the man of the match. and im sory rambo yet
unimpresive n keep losing the ball.hope wenger put rosicky arteta n song
in the midfield against manshity.am woried bout rambo performance.stil need a lot to improve from him.bt stil i gve him the credit for his workrate
n he is definetly is a hardworking player.bt he keep on hesitate on passing or make a dcision rsult in several oofside.lose the ball often.
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i wud love to see rosicky on,he rly wna show somethng,even in the last 10 minutes.hes combination with rvp and arteta and song is awesome.that one touch passing with rvp is damn sexy.if wenger gt either goetze r gourcuf.why nt let
rambo go out on loan at bolton.my opinion.sorry.he definetly hv that
quality.frustating to see him losing the ball quite often n so on.his ability is only dpend on his work rate n hardworking that covers evrythng for his weaknesses.
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Any other day u ask such a question,i wil slap u via bluetooth.hw can u imagine such a thing.does it mean that good things doesnt last at arsenal.tell d board to stop being selfish and maintain these guys.if rooney is worth 250,000k a week,rvp worths more.
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Professional footballers play for money, get that in your thick skulls. Stupid fans think that players play football for loyalty.
At the moment, Arsenal cannot offer big money nor trophies for highly ambitious players. Only the low-ambition players stay for this kind of money.
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The mirror always has rumors about us and transfers, and obviously a lot of them aren’t true! Let’s hope this isnt either! RVP is a true arsenal man not like cashley or na$ri, become a legend for us robin be a gooner for life!
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250,000 is 250,000. Loyalty, priceless!
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his no homesick spaniard — legend to be
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The good news about today is that spurs lost…and i think van persie will stay but we will not buy any star players come January if we do then that would be great
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If Robin wants to join Real Madrid,I will deeply rescpect his decision,they are biggest club in Europe and every player wants to play for them,but I also believe that Robin will be the Gunner for many yeas to come.
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it is van peirse s choose if he wants to go or stay but i would ratter have him in real madrid than man city.
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Well sorry he is not for sale. Actually we need a creative midfielder and striker so why not we make a bid for Ronaldo and Silva in January to bolster our current squad. Wenger should bid even if rejected. That should stop them pocking @ our players. Why is nobody bidding for Rooney or Chicarito(They are not 4 sale)
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I agree with @Robert. I am sure the management at the club do pay attention to these blogs(remember they invited some bloggers to the new med ctr the other day). My advice to them is do everything possible to keep him, simple. No tricks and no spin!!! If you let him go we fans will be well done for and the stadium will be empty, no jokes, seriously; cos there is just about how much we can take and we are only floating here just head above water. It is simple, if you want to keep raking in that money, we demand you keep RVP, sign at least a creative mid and striker. Make us smile and your profit will shoot up lol. BTW As we are enjoying our top 4 position even tho still waiting to c chelski and shitty game, Spuds lost today to Stoke so we are doing very well. Lets get behind the team a bit more and become the 12th player on the field and just give them that little bit of fighting energy to cross the line game by game. Peace be onto all Gunners everywhere
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Real can make an offer no club can refuse, and RVP is worth a lot right now. Club might get money for couple of hi-quality players but still money can be obtained on the other places. I hope Van Persie well stay in London
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Robin knows where he comes from,reading the begining of his fantastic career he can only Thank AV for moulding him into the player his today• Robin if you read this message stay my brother, you have young players in your camp looking up to you ,want to BE YOU• I know you love the sport much more that money•best regards Denzil{Cape Town SA}
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Tbh if van persie goes i guarentee it’ll be for ambition not money, he’s a player who loves the sport and benefits from the money in it rather than playing for the money like nasri seems to. if he leaves i hope he goes to a club that’ll do good by him and give him some trophies he deserves. i do however pray each night (athiest btw) that he stay’s at arsenal and wenger brings out the arsenal billions to sign a world class striker (podolski) and a world class creative midfielder in gotze which would really put arsenal into atleast 3rd.
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round and round it goes,it reminds me of th invincibles@henry,viera,pires era,but now its the rvp era,were unbeatable
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at the moment, I think he will stay….what is the point of moving to another trophyless team anyway? ok FA cup yea yea, i would pay top money for that cup…RVP is more a player of ambition (he tasted that cup already anyway)…On move to Real, I think he prolly had had enough chat with van der vaart/huntelaar on that!
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We love RVP and so the question is completely irrelevant. However, in the unlikely event-then RVP should stay or would rather join Madrid in a swap deal for a prominent player. Wenger should break the record by not only signing prolific players to add to the squard but also to pay a substantial amount to keep RVP at the Emirates stadium.
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Robin Van Persie has said himself that he would like to see Arsene Wenger spend some big money and bring in a world class player or two. I myself, as an Arsenal fan, would also like to see this happen. I think it may be the only way to secure his signature. It shows the ambitions of the club. I am afraid to say, but we have in the past been let down by players, we thought, had pledged their allegiance to the club. Although I do not want to think RVP would leave, there could be a real possibility of this. Perhaps if Wenger signed one or two high quality players, this would help keep RVP, but also for the greater good of the club, bringing more depth and quality to a side to bring back the hopes of title contending.
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RVP pliz stay with us we want you @ emirates, with you we are making it. Us in Zimbabwe are afta you. We kuv you
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You can just see his passion.
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RVP is at the peak of his career, any distraction will cost him his form. He should just stay at the emirates
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RVP will not leave arsenal…from his style of leading the club..he is sure to stay at aresnal for rest of his life..i think he is going to follow his fellow countryman..denish bergkamp..please mr.arsene do some great signings in january..to make rvp beleive that gunners mind only business of football..
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