RVP’s success will only encourage more Arsenal players to leave
Selling your best players is selling your dreams. by GP
It must take a special kind of denial or stubbornness to ignore your mistakes, especially when they smack you in the face every day.
Over the last few years Arsenal has continued to sell our most outstanding players for profit and replaced them with inferior players. In some cases we never replaced them at all.
But maybe some good may come out of this. Robin Van Persie is making headlines every week for Man Utd and every goal he scores makes me more resentful towards our own manager and board.
His early form and success can only inspire Walcott and Sagna to leave a club that shows no ambition to win again
or real desire to keep them.
My wish is that maybe Wenger and the Arsenal board will confront their mistakes and decide to make amends. The reality is they wont. They insist that this is all part of some Master Plan!
We the fans are the ones who feel it most no matter what players say. The Manchester derby today was littered with ex Arsenal players that have made both teams stronger. This was the kind of top of the table fixture we played in all the time.
I realise that in many cases these players wanted to leave but that is because we stopped showing the ambition as a club to compete.
How can Wenger and our board watch our ex players compete at a higher level than us without feeling uncomfortable with their decision to sell them and invest more money in our team?
I will never question his honesty because he is a man of honour but at some point his conscience and a willingness to put things right should have surfaced by now.
I do not believe January gets the best business done but a couple of signings would be a show of intent.
Some will say that this is a negative post and that is their opinion but surely, beating West Brom at home should be a given for us rather than a relief…
The Manchester teams may still be our rivals, but not in terms of where the title will end up. Only some serious spending can make us relevant again.
Glenn
Selling OUR best players, selling OUR dreams
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Agreed its sick watching rvp for the filth always scores a late winner we struggle to score at all come on wenger sort yours and the boards wrongs do something right for a change
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Van persie is the best player in the premier league. Fact. Arsenal made him. FACT. Wenger and the board were stupid to allow a 25m deal FACT!
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watching Van-Persie carry United breaks my heart everytime. it’s like watching the woman you love having sex with ur high school bully on tape over and over.
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Lets just all admit van Persie is just too OP.
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please dont talk about him
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what was wenger thinking selling him to the scum???
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I feel sad 4 us, and i also feel happy 4 him at least he has a hope of winning a title….but what hope have we got? Capital 1 cup? Dats shameful
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Stress stress stress when it comes to my beloved arsenal…..COYG
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I told you RVP has all the characteristics of a dog except loyalty
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Now I dont think as badly about RVP as about Cashri…two reasons,1) He never ever has said anything bad in the media abt us like cashri..2) He Really wanted to Win Something..and he knew we were at best in d runnin for league cup or FA cup…EPL and CL we dnt stand a chance with this team!
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What exactly has he won since he left? He’s doing the same thing at united that he did at arsenal scoring all the goals their season would be screwed if he got injured….which I pray every nite for
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Wenger wants to eat his cake and have. That is imposible, Desire to make profit bu all means is the main reason for our problem.
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Van Persie’s is surely a gem and selling him has certainly hurt us. But i dont think our board or Mr. Wenger will learn much from this mistake. We still look for cheap deals whereever and whatever. Our ambition is be in top 4 EPL teams to qualify for champions league and than in the champions league make it to the round of last 16 clubs. When that is achieved , well we are in the title hunt for next year would be the comment of Mr.Wenger.
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RVP has been in form but i wouldn’t say he’s succesful and we will only know how succesful end of the season.
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4k wenger & ð board!!! I still cheer 4 RVP whenever he scores!
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RVP success is not own made, but rather team development. so dont grant him any but a team
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Wenger & the board, u have to buy a top top top top striker this Jan for us fans to get over RVP!
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I am a kenyan fan who has ever supported Arsenal and Wenger but enough is enough.Unless Wenger shows us some magic, my love for hi is dwindling in a much faster rate that tomorrow.
I wonder what’s happenning.If you imagine if today we had, Nasri,Fab,Hleb,Song,Flamini,Rvp,Toure,Ashely cole,even Adebayor,Las Diarra,Ebue….name them where could we be?
Do something Wenger or it could be time you hang up your boots.
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RVP will win the league this year.
Now Platini is planning to remove Europa league and add it to champions league. So even If you finish 7th , you can play CL. It is ggod news for Arsenal board as they can even sell more and earn more profit. Finshing 7th will not need to spend at all.
Ha ha.
Selling our dreams.
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I agree with the fans who point out that RVP has not yet been successful at Arsenal.
We know RVP is made of glass and that it’s just a matter of time before he breaks again for the long haul.
277 appearances and 132 goals in 8 seasons says it all. Compare that with Thierry Henry over the same length of time … 369 appearances and 226 goals.
Being 30+ also means RVP will take longer to heal.
This is why we sold him. He would have been a 150k/pw sicknote for the next 3 years at Arsenal. He deliberately got himself injured half the time. Just look at archive games where he was injured and watch how he deliberately left his leg dangling in dangerous places like he was inviting injury. I never liked him and not even after his valuable contribution last season. Glad to see the back of him. I wanted him sold years ago. Let him score for United, that’s what they pay him for. Instead of whining about the loss of RVP, fans should instead be moaning about Wenger’s failure to sign a decent striker. There are many who could fill the void left by RVP, the service is phenomenal at Arsenal.
Let’s just hope a striker is bought in January along with the loaning of Thierry. It’s going to be great to see Titi back in the Red and White again as always. If he doesn’t score I don’t care. I just want to see him play for us again. Huntelaar might sign, but will probably have a dim view of Arsenal’s policy of one year rolling contract for over 30′s.
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I meant **I agree with the fans who point out that RVP has not yet been successful at United.**
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RVP will win the league with Manure
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U guys who say rvp is yet not successful are just jealous..we saw dat despite man city players they got above manure with jst a little margine..dis time with rvp and ro6ney am sure manure and rvp will celebrate being epl champions..and we sha5l be out of the carling cup..just watch out
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@Arsenal1again stop smoking that stuff…….
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The game yesterday showed me th
ere was 25% ex arsenal players out on that pitch that no other team can boast that we are the best selling team in the world
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It is Sunday evening and Wenger has fallen asleep on his armchair while watching tv. Wenger is deep in a dream regarding Saturdays game.
Wenger: No Santi don’t dive, don’t dive. Noooooooooooooo
Wenger wakes up in a cold sweat.
Wenger: Dammit these idiots have been cheating to win at home against WBA.
Wenger nods off again
Back in his dream about Saturdays game he now fast forwards to Ox’s goal. It is the lead up to the goal.
Wenger: Don’t you dive too
Ox falls over
Wenger: Nooooooooooo
Wengers wakes up in a cold sweat again
Wenger: Dammit. Even Ox is at it
Wenger looks down and sees his PSG slippers. He smiles
Wenger: Maybe things will pick up soon. I hear Carlo isn’t doing too well there.
Wenger gets on the phone to Carlo
Carlo: Hello
Wenger: Yo. Its Arsene
Carlo: Sorry I took so long to get to the phone. I tripped over myself
Wenger: Ha ha. Not funny!
Carlo: So what can I do for you?
Wenger: Have you considered a career as Arsenal manager
Carlo: Yeah I would be falling over myself for the opportunity
Wenger: Enough of the diving jokes!
Carlo: Sorry
Wenger: My spiritual home is PSG and you want to be in EPL. So?
Carlo: Its up to you
Wenger: Cool catch you later
Wenger contemplates his future.
Wenger: Hmmm I could move Sakho to DM. Then when we win the league we will be on the bus during the parade and everyone will be like ‘props to Wenger for changing Sakhos position. It made a huge difference’
Wenger nods off again. He is restless and is awake again in a couple of minutes. He calls Bould. Bould is in bed and his phone rings. He knows its Wenger because of the special ta na na na ta na na ringtone he has assigned Wenger
Bould: Yes yes y’all. Sup Arsene
Wenger: Do you feel the shame?
Bould: Well being bald isn’t necessarily a negative thing. In fact its considered a sign of virility. So I am actually proud.
Wenger: No the other thing
Bould: Look Arsene, when I saw Ramsey running towards me with open arms I did not realise you were behind me and that he was running towards you
Wenger: No not that. I’m talking about the.diving
Bould: I thought you taught them that?
Wenger: No. I thought you did?
Bould: Nope. I hate that.
Wenger: Well their not going to use their own initiative. Someone must have told them. Get the squad together and meet me at the training ground.
Wenger is now in his office. Bould walks in
Bould: Arsene, their in the dressing room
Wenger walks into the dressing room. Ramsey is still in his one piece night suit
Wenger: Rambo, I see you’re liking the pressie I got you
Ramsey: Its so snuggly that I fell asleep 3 times while driving here.
Wenger: I know! I have one too!
Bould coughs
Wenger points at Ox and Cazorla
Wenger: You two – stand up
They both stand up
Wenger: Why did you dive, Santi?
Cazorla: There was contact
Wenger turns the screen on and shows the dive while zooming in
Wenger: Well?
Cazorla: It wasn’t me.
Wenger zooms into the shirt no. to show Cazorlas squad no.
Cazorla: I can’t take this anymore
Gervinho stands up
Gervinho: Be strong Santi
Wenger whispers to Bould
Wenger: When did he start speaking to the other players?
Bould shrugs his shoulders
Cazorla: No Gervinho. If it wasn’t for.ypu I would have taken two steps out and curled it in
Gervinho: Think carefully about what you say
Ox: They say you should never trust a man with a combover
Gervinho: This isn’t a combover
Wenger: Yes it is
Gervinho: No my hair has always been like this
Cazorla: Liar
Wenger: Whats going on?
Cazorla: He told us to dive
Ox: Yeah
Wenger: Why?
Gervinho: Because I thought I could score the penalties, get my tally up and move to Man City
The whole group laughs
Wenger: You can’t score. Even penalties
Gervinho: Yes we know. So far our insurance has paid out for broken wing mirros on Podolskis, Artetas and goalkeeper who name I can’ pronounces cars
Gervinho: I was close
Wenger: No the car is on the opposite end of the pitch
Bould: Get out
Gervinho: For my Man City medical? Have the made an enquiry?
Bould: No. You’re off to the reserves.
Gervinho: Because Man City scouts have requested a behind closed doors game to see my talent
Bould: Wenger, please help
Wenger: Nobody wants you. You are terrible. If there was a demand for bad combovers and even worse shooting then they would have broken my door down by now
Wenger presses the buzzer
Wenger: Security
Security arrive
Wenger: Take Mr Combover here as far away from Arsenal as you can
Bould: Now lets all get home and forget taking tactical advice from baldy
Wenger: Please note he is referring to Gervinho. You can still take tactical advice from this baldy *points at Bould*
Bould: Oops
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it pains down to the bones and inside the bone marrows when i see a team at heart,mind and soul.just breeding the best and leaving the best year by year, time by time.pliz why sell our pride.if by now we had the likes of flamini,clicy,nasri,fab,persi,song,even the likes of bacelona would struggle to atleast get a draw.
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There is this assumption that wenger and the board are weakening arsenal without realising it. But that’s not true. These guys are professionals. They crunch numbers and digest statistics for a living. They know what they are doing. They know that they have been weaking this team and that is part of their grand plan. Dont you get it? Their plan all along was to cash in as soon as they have a valuable player on their hands. Grow up guys. Money making is the name of their game which is precisely why they will sell walcot. Keeping walcot means taking more money out of their pockets and they hate that. This board does not share wealth with their players. They pay them as little as possible and as soon as a player excels and starts agitating for a wage increase, they sell that player so that they dont have to share that loot with the nasris, the van persies and the alex songs. Add walcot to that list too. So that is the grand plan fellows. It is about investing as little as possible while maximising as much profit as possible. Wenger perfected that plan and that is why he will never get fired. Which other manager can make you money with average players?
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While selling RVP and Cesc was painful ( and completely out of Arsenals hands – they wouldn’t have signed for any amount ) seeing Song and Nasri play recently makes me wonder is we weren’t better off.
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Gervinho: Because I thought I could score the penalties, get my tally up and move to Man City
The whole group laughs
funny drama u got there buddy..lol
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What is it with you naysayer miserable fans? You have absolutely no cajones. For years Arsenal were dining on caviar football. Fans were even fortunate to have the chance to watch a team capable of going a season unbeaten, playing Harlem globe trotter football while there were at it. Ironically that team did not contain the underachieving primadonnas (namely RVP, Nasri and on a minor level Fabregas) who didn’t have it in them to try and get a trophy for AFC despite the time and energy Wenger and the club invested. Just because Arsenal are going through a slight (yes I used that word slight) fallow spell you are you whining like babies who have had their mother’s left tit whipped prematurely from their mouths.
You know what? Get over it. While he is fan of prudence, Wenger has clearly been hamstrung by the board to the extent that players of the calibre of Henry and Vieira have been priced out of his reach. He has done well with the money he has. With that stingy board any fan who thinks that AFC would be able to attract the likes of Guardiola when Wenger departs is tripping.
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you arsenal on need to get grip honestly listening to press will kill ur emotion am always in control of my bdont go over board over something out of ur control. a player was nurse for 8 good yrs where were u then slagging arsene all the time am hapy he left good money we can only wait and see the same horor show of RVP very soon then i will be remiding u abt u have said. i dont think any one of u knw how to run a club do u? RVP want to go even if wenger sign falcao,xavi etc bcos is made up is mind since the begining of the season he work hard for the first time in order to get sold well planed by agent and him. so stop killing ur self ok
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samir nasri you were a disgrace yesterday you really need to grow a pair.
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Who cares about RVP, hes a champion but who cares. Arsenal need to worry about their selves not the people across the road.
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