RVP saga

So?

He has had one good season out of what 6? He will fade away again due to injuries etc. I think this is another Fergie and Veron situation.
 
After opinions as I Can't really decide wether it's a good signing or not your right with just one good season and many mediocre ones. A lot of money too for a 29 year old who would be free next summer.
Hopefully he brings his goals and not his injuries!
 
As a United fan I am delighted we have virtually got him and havent paid a silly amount for him. I think at Arsenal if he was 85% fit he played, where as at United I dont think it will be like that, we have enough strikers to be able to sit him out and use a good rotation system for our strikers. We have 4 premiership quality strikers, which could be key in a league title we lost out on goal difference.
 
I'm very pleased! It is a lot of money for a player of his age and injury history, but if he can play half as well as he did last season it'll be very interesting at the top. RVP and Rooney could be a lethal partnership. Certainly be a good contest with Tevez and Aguero. Roll on the start of the season.
 
RVP is heading to united!

Looks like van persie is off to manchester by the looks of it, him and rooney up front with valencia, nani/young and kagawa supplying them has the potential to be the best attack in the premier league, whats everyones thoughts?
 
Im delighted! Rooney can give him endless assists, and rvp has the most assists in the prem since 2008 so he can supply rooney as well! If you then add in the supply from valencia, nani, young and kagawa we have the potential to be the best strike force in the premier league, if we can keep him fit then I think he could be the difference in the title race
 


As I see it, RVP issued out his open letter, criticising the club, the manager, and his playing partners. He did this in the hope that Madrid, Barca, or one of the Milans would rescue him from Arsenal, and give him the bumper payout he thinks he deserves. Well, he got it wrong. They weren't interested. What he was left with was partial interest from Juventus, City, and United.
Juve were out, once their manager got suspended for 10 months for match fixing. This left City, or United. City pulled out once they worked out that Arsenal weren't going to let him go for nothing, and that 20 mill for a player who other than last season averages 20 games a season is not value. They also already have 5 top strikers, who they can't off load due to insane wages.

This left United.

Why do United want RVP?

Ok, he is the double footballer of the year, and 40 odd goals from 50 odd games looks good. He is 29, with a history of being crocked though. If fit, even at 24m, he looks like a bargain. If they can rotate their squad, they may be able to keep him fit, but whether he will be happy not playing every game, who knows. He will score goals for them, and other than Rooney, they have not had a striker you can say that about for a while.

But is that all? Not in my view. United originally had 660m of debt foisted off onto them from their sale to the Glazers. By 2010 this had risen to 716m. They re-financed 500m of this, which is due in 2017. As far as I can tell (with out doing much digging into a club I am not really interested in) the other 216m is due in 2015. They are only paying interest on this debt, and have no visible means of ever paying off the capital. They have done a recent share issue, but this has been a bit of a disaster. Originally valued at $20 a share, this has dropped to around 14, with various financial bods pointing to a final real value of around $5 a share.

In order to generate any of the sort of off field investment needed to keep the club afloat, and the sponsors happy, United need to make land mark signings each year (partly to prove that their is sufficient spare money to better the team, and that the Glazers are at least partially re-investing in their asset), and also need to win trophies. RVP is a gamble, that they needed to make. If they win the premiership, or CL, with RVP on board, it will pay off. If he gets crocked, and they don't, it will be another nail in Fergies coffin (Veron any one?).

For RVP he is moving to a team with proven recent history of trophies, and also that are willing to invest huge wages in a 29 year old. Arsenals history in looking after 30 year old players is poor. A 4 year contract, at 200k a week (Rooney style wages) will see him to 33. There is no way he would get that at Arsenal.

From an Arsenal point of view, I am disappointed that our Captain, who we have supported through an awful lot of injury prone years, feels the need to leave the club the moment we appear to be assembling a half decent team (and the moment he has one decent season). I only hope that they re-invest the reported 24m on a top class striker (Cavani or Llorente?), and don't just use it to pay for Podolski, Giraud and Cazorla. I also think one of Song or Walcott will also go, to help balance the books.

Without RVP we are weaker, for sure. More signings please Arsene.
 
I love posts from fans criticising players for leaving and insinuating that because the club has stuck by them when they have been laid off with injuries he should have showed a bit of loyalty.

There is no such thing as loyalty in football.

What planet do folk live on..............it's 2012 not 1972.
 
The bottom line is that I want to win trophies with Arsenal, not with anybody else. I know you can win trophies in many countries and in many ways, but I want to do that in our way and in an Arsenal shirt.
‘I’m sure I could win things at another team in another country, but would it feel like our trophy, my trophy? I’m not sure it would. Anything we win here will come from the heart and that’s what I want. It’s my dream and I see no point in speaking about other teams when I have these dreams. I think other people know that about me; I’m just hungry to win with Arsenal and that’s it – Robin van Persie, February 2011

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