Robin Van Persie clarifies his position on Arsenal contract talks
The Arsenal captain Robin Van Persie has heard so many rumours and counter-rumours regarding his future at Arsenal that he has decided to release an official statement clarifying the present state of the negotiations between himself and the club.
In the statement posted on Arsenal.com, Van Persie yet again states there will be no further discussions until the end of the season, and explains why. This is what he said:
“There have been a lot of stories, generally contradictory ones, about my contract situation recently so I’d like to make it clear,” he said.
“There’s nothing complicated or sinister – the Club and I have both agreed to speak at the end of the season and see how things stand. The boss, Ivan Gazidis and I are all comfortable with it.
“I need all my focus to be on football – on captaining this team, improving every day, doing extra work on the training pitch and preparing for the very busy schedule of fixtures we have.
“If I look down the list, there’s not much time to sit down and think about anything else! For me, this is a time to play football and not speak about personal things. All of my energy needs to go on getting this team where we want it to be this season.”
Far be it for me to be cynical about this, but that sounds eerily similar to the statements put out by Samir Nasri last season……
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basically, if if the team isnt strengthened (new signings in and deadwood dropped) over the next transfer period, he will go which is fair enough.
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Basically, I would leave my company for more respect and money, if my company refuse to pay me good market rate wages, and always disappoint me by failing to give me bonus and making me work OT because of incompetence of other staffs.
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I can understand that now he is in the later stage of his career he wants to compete and win some major trophies as he has just 1 fa cup winner’s medal with us, but on the other hand wouldn’t be refreshing to see a player show a bit of loyalty to a club that have stuck by him and paid him good wages for many injury hit seasons, I think this is the only season he has been injury free.
I would like to think he owes us, but the modern footballer knows nothing about loyalty, do they?
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We shouldn’t worry.
I but my house he will not pull a Na$ri.
He has something called Passion for a club.
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For those who didn’t understand what he meant, ALL he was trying to say was “Get me Goetze, Cavani and Bigilia and I’ll stay”. i.e he wants assurances that the team can compete.
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agreed twig.
Fair enough, if i was him and had some common sense i’d wait as well.
At least his putting some pressure for better signings.
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rvp has done a lot for arsenal this season. we are still in the cl spots because of him. the least the board can do is offer him a bumper contract and guarentee a couple of world class signings for next season. if not let the guy leave. he is reaching the end of his career and will want to win a few trophees. the arsenal board should stop playing mind games with the fans.
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What is the point of him making an honest statement to clarify his position if most of you idiots will not accept what he says at face value and still insist in putting your own interpretation on his words. Why can you not just accept what he says about his own situation, you are insulting him by not doing so. He says he and the club have agreed not to discuss a contract till the end of the season, a perfectly simple thing to understand, why can you not accept his word on it.
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the gunners 3-0 totenham
walcott will make 2 goals today, to claim back his honor as arsenal great player. give him the trust and he,ll be emerge as champions !
the gunners till i die !!!
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Do go rvp. win trophies elsewhere. u done enough. ur 29 this year. dnt waste ur time.
Opinions divided. What do you think?
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I sympathise with him, he loves the club but heneeds to wins trophies and that doesnt seem possible at arsenal as the management and coach are exremely stingy and has not kept pace ith realities. If they want him to stay, they need to give him hope by improving the team and his pay. Otherwise, he can get everything elsewhere.
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RVP owes arsenal in a way…did we all forget those injury ravaged seasons with only 20 apperances? He shud at least give us 1 more season in my opinion
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Every player is replaceable, even RVP. i don’t want to see him leave but if he does we will get a hefty fee which we can reinvest. Whether we REALLY invest is the real question.
If RVP goes, then maybe we can have 2 strikers leading the pack, with Ryo and AOC on the wings, Wilshere and Song in the centre and Santos,Vermaelen, Kozzie and Sagna
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lets just see what happens this summer, i really dont think he would leave unless he felt he had no choice, and if that is the case he will go with my blessing as he is certainly no nasri or adebywhore, and to suggest he is anything like them two is really tasteless for such a classy player and man.
you are the best striker in the epl by a long way vp, show the spuds today just how good!!!!
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The usual claptrap from admin as Samir Nasri never was Ars
enal captain or top scorer in any given season and his fa
ther who incidentally also happens to be his agent wanted
the big money move to Citeh,nothing wrong with that but for
how long can Citeh continue luring big name players to Manc
hester and pay them such outrageous wages when Leeds United
did the exact same with Viduka,Kewell,Yeboah and a host of
top class players and still got relegated and incurred huge
finiancial losses ?
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IF BOARD SHOW AMBITION AND INVEST INTO MAYBE 3 WORLD CLASS PLAYERS TO BRING CLUB WHERE IT SHOULD BE I THINK HE SHOULD SHOULD AND I THINK HE WILL SHOW HIS LOYALTY AND STAY….
BUT IF THE BOARD JUST KEEP THINKING ABOUT THERE POCKETS I THINK ITS FAIR THAT IF HE WISHES TO MOVE ON THEN ITS UPTO HIM….
HOPE IT ALL GOES RITE….
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wenger has come out and said he won’t spend big so there you have it the arrogant twat will buy cheap shit players again in the summer
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RVP WILL see out his playing career at the Emirates … mark my words
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Gervinho and Chamberlain on the bench. I guess Wenger intends to unleash them when Spurs begin to tire. This move could just win the game for Arsenal.
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Wenger Strongly Defends His Transfer Policy And Says He Is Right..well Mr asshole ur wrong n u need to fix up or go.
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He will leave i bet but not till transfer window nearly closed again giving us no time to get replacemant , as if arsene would buy a replacement anyway ???? remember that Vela and Bendtner will return from loan so they will not replace him ! Wenger will just say that Vela and Bendtner have improved vastly over the season and does not need a replacement , just like they tricked us with signing Henry on loan just to distract us from the fact that yet another transfer window passed with out signing a quality player .
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Honestly i’m afraid we might lose rvp.i dont think d club board can give him what he wants….massive wage increase and signing big stars.
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2-2!!!!!! come on!!!!
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oboy! arsenal are good 2day, scoring 2 goals just in five minutes thats great, sagna and the prolific van persie are on the list and we are looking forward to winning the match spurs 2 vs arsenal 2… the match will end tottenham 2 vs arsenal 3… up gunnerz!!!
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My only complaint is that we don’t have a post on the actual match yet again.
Nothing like the so called derby game in the north of England that end up being nothing more than friendly games.
The North London Derby is always the match to watch.
One lucky goal from the spuds and a non existent penalty made it look like luck was not on our side but two excellent goals from Sagna and RVP.
Lets take the spuds to cleaners now come on ARSENAL.
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Whats the name of the day we finish higher than spuds?
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come on make it five
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@Red DB 10
Yeah why no post for the game!!! lol.
Anyways its good to see the Arsenal fans cheering and look how good we are today. Cheer our team not boo!!!!
4-2 come on arsenal!!!!
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Come on make it six
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5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@red DB10 I must have a second or two delay. lol
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what a game… goal galore
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Come on lets make it 7 ……….. oh shit we haven’t got the sixth yet
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Rosicky man of the match, followed close by beny and theo.
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What a game! It hasn’t been often wev got to feel like this so let’s saviour every moment my gooner brothers!!! Arsenal till I die.
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Totally agree Rocisky MVP but by a country mile for me
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ha ha “OLE”!!!! nice to hear that again
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van persie just owned them
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ARE U WATCHING HAZARD???!!
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The one who laugh last, laugh the best Adebayor…Ha..Ha..Ha..Ha..Ha..Haaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LOLL ArTETA IS PASSING FoRWARDS YESS!!
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10 out of 10 to all players….we are dead wenger won’t buy anymore players loooooool
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HAHAHA they cheated and still got destroyed lol it’s all downhill for tottenham from here. Come on Arsenal, let’s do the same to liverpool next weekend!!! GUNNER TIL I DIE!!!!
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Great great great performance!
Just need to keep it up!
We’ve shown we have enought quality when we want to.
I say give Milan hell!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AND ALL WITHOUT RAMSEY OOOH ENJOYED NOT SEEING HIM PLAY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONEEERS SILEENCEEED NOISY NEIGHBOURSS LALAALAAAA
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no ramsey=we won. Easy as that…
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Get in there what.a performance why benyoun doesnt play more ill never rosicky was brilliant aswell get in there well done boys….. redknapp dont cry ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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WENGER;OVERALL WE PLAYED ZE GREAT GAME ,WE SHOWED MENTAL STRENGTH THIS TEAM HAS TO GROW AND THEIR SO YOUNG AND TALENTED HAHA WHAEVA
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Awesome game overall. I agree that this also is where Tottenham slip up.
Tottenham will lose to Man Utd next week so if we beat Liverpool then we will only be 4 points behind them. Trust me 3rd is ours this season, (would like 1st but hey) but lets keep backing the team to make sure.
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Aint felt like this all season c’mon u gunners march on to the next game. Fighting spirit we want to c that every game. Big shout to rosiky n benayoun n Walcott keep it up lads
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welldone rosiscky bena and walcott today
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why cnt keep those kind of performances cosistently??
hope do it the same to liverfool as a revenge when they beat us 0-2 at the. emirates. and if we cn lead 2 or 3 goals in the first half against milan. we can beat them.bt for today cngrats.win that third spot. n go wherever we wud t the champs league. kroenky dnt be hapy back there. one win dnt change anythng. n as for wenger same reasons win or lose or draw.
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all together now
“We hate tottenham and we hate tottenham, We hate tottenham and we hate tottenham,We hate tottenham and we hate tottenham”
WE ARE THE TOTTENHAM HATERS
y—s y—s y—s
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Very pleased with workrate of team (midfield especially). Made a big difference. Great to see Rosicky and Benayoun constantly running off the ball. The two of them plus Arteta did great closing Tottenham down quickly high up the pitch and it was good to see Arteta bring the ball up and play direct passes. Walcott did good second half and finished his chances. Tough away game next up, lets get behind the team and bring the 12th man to the kop and get us a win!
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How important is Ramsey to this arsenal team?
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my 1-3 prediction was tore apart!! Lol
cmon arsenal,lets bring down milan.fans shud make it hell 4 them.if u can get 5 against spuds,then why not ? Take a gamble with high defensive line and best line up (which excludes ramsey and includes rosicky,ox).if the team scores atleast 2 goals in 1st half u never know….songs pass 2 walcot brilliant
Sczesny
Sagna kosc verm gibbs
Song arteta
Rocisky
Ox/gervinho rvp walcott
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I hope Hazard watched that game……We totallyyyyyyy owned Spurs…Hazard,next stop…ARSENAL!!……
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Kuta-bali are u psychic u predicted a walcott brace and dats wot happened wow am impressed pls give us more positive predictions
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I hope todays performance finally outlined rosickys ability to all the haters! I always think its out of order when fans label him as deadwood. There’s a good few players in the squad who don’t deserve to be there but rosickys definatly not one of them. He can’t really shoot (though his goal today was a beautiful little dink) and he’s not a star but he can’t be faulted for his work-rate, passing, vision and awareness. We need to hold on to players like him if we want to start building some much needed depth in squad.
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our marvelous captain is going NOWHERE.
Haha we got the weirdest team.
2 for all of u slamming Theo. 1 for me slamming rosicky.
what a beautiful evening!
when i saw the lineup with yossi & rosicky in and gerv & ox out, i thought AW has lost it, well, AKB indeed.
what happened today?! we were a totally different team.
seriously, what was that?
have a brilliant week my fellow giddy gunners.
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finally getting shot of ‘little fat arse’…has allowed the so under-used Benayoun a chance to shine
and maybe somehow Rosicky might just see a glimmer of form return as he emerges from an imaginary shadow
anyway – great game ‘onwards & upwards’
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THE WHOLE TEAM DESEVERD MAN OV MACH TODAY…
AWSOME
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Thats Adult reasoning, job first negotiation later. Keep on motivating team mate good news to come man RVP.
Mombasa, Kenya.
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Mark my words.. he wont leave. He has said this because he wants to see what the team is thinking of for the next year and what the transfers are like. In a way I hope Arsenal fisnih 4th and not 3rd so that Arsene buys some firepower for the qualification stages.. He is just waiting to see what kind of signings come in and what is the future for Arsenal in the coming year before he signs on the dotted line which is quite fair.
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This is where Van Persies career goes from here: either he becomes another over priced flop at Real Madrid Or he becomes an Arsenal Legend, a true great, one that will be respected for his loyalty and loved for his talent. I know which one I’d rather be.
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With regards to Robin’s contract Wenger needs to be realistic and do what is right for both the club and RVP.
If Wenger decides not to bring up new faces to strengthen his squad I will not hold any thing against him. BUT surely failure to keep cornerstones for our team has costed us too many things and we do not need a reapeat of that. Spend wisely and build another invincible team “You have already done that Wenger why not Repeat it”
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