Contrary to the fans’ wishes, it would appear that Arsenal is prepared to off-load Robin Van Persie to arch rival Manchester United. Reports from UK newspapers are saying that there talks between the two clubs are in advance stages and should be completed before the weekend. The transfer will be somewhere in between the opening bid of £15 million and the club’s valuation of £30 million.
Frankly, this whole episode does not make any sense from both a business and footballing perspective. RVP is definitely not indispensable to the team but to sell him to your competitor is just totally bonkers. If you look at it from a business point of view, it is very short-sighted of the club to do transaction. Our revenue comes not only from ticket sales but a whole chunk of it from broadcasting and tournament fees. The most lucrative of them all is the Champions League. We have always made it to the competition which is why we have done so well but the fight for places is getting harder. As the Guardian puts it, the wheels are potential coming off Manchester United and it is likely that they will find it hard to make it this year. By giving them Robin Van Persie, it automatically increases their chances of making it at the expense of the chasing pack which Arsenal is part of. Therefore, we may get £20 million now but potential lose out much more in revenue should we not make the Champions League.
From a footballing perspective, selling RVP to United just makes them stronger when there is the possibility of Sir Alex’s team going on the downtrend. If we want to challenge for trophys, it would only make sense to make your competitors weaker not stronger, and by default it makes everyone including us weaker.
Therefore, not matter how you cut it; there is no good reason for selling Robin Van Persie to Manchester United.
contributed by
Cesc4ever
Robin Van Persie, Arsenal, Manchester United, Arsene Wenger, Alex Ferguson
it totally dont make no sense to agree to strengthen u enemy, looking @ that i hate man u than spurs…
Agree 100% that to sell RVP to MU is bonkers. Arsenal bought him for about 3 million. From both a business and football point of view,it doesn’t make sense.
Why not RVP run down his contract if Arsenal can’t get 20 to 25 million.The red faced will be desperate if results go against him by late Aug. Then he would probably cough up what Areesenal want.AD in the proviso he can’t play against Arsenal home and away.
It true there is good bussines of sellin RVP to our rivals it’s better to keep him at our club or selling him outside the premier league.
yeah exactly. Because Arsenal have certainly made City weaker over the past few years.
I am really sick to death now hearing Arsenal fans talk about not wanting to sell RVP to United because it will make a rival stronger when they practically been City’s feeder club since the billionaire takeover. Aresenal have practically put City on top of the pile themselves.
This is totally pathetic.
I hope all the fans everywhere boo the management and make them regret ever having contemplated selling RvP to Manu.
Especially to Red Nose, who actively encourages those paedophile chants about Wenger at Old Toilet.
Is Wenger so in love with money he will sell to anybody? Is he so out of control of the situation that he just lets it slide?
Next to go is the pathetic Vermaelen and Wilshere. PLayers who have already signed contracts to go elsewhere because Wenger is so pathetic that he cannot keep a team together.
Wenger knows that our team cannot compete for anything. He knows so he just builds up players and sells them.
Is there a more short-sighted way of conducting business now that the move has been completed? Those pathetic board members!
I bet you they are eagerly rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the transfer fees of Song and RvP, our best players last season.
Supporting Arsenal is becoming a meaningless endeavour. How do Manu manage to buy our best players, with half a billion in debts? Yet we, being more financial stable, cannot keep any of our best players?
Can u imagine the embarassment of being an Arsenal fan going for an away game at Old Toilet? Are Wenger and Gazidis so weak and pathetic?
How can they imagine that replacing Song and RvP with Podolski and Cazorla works?
Even if it works…what message have they sent to every club out there? Arsenal will make far much more money by keeping the players, winning a trophy to pay them the salaries.
Wenger is afraid that if he keeps the players, he will HAVE to win something. Wenger is afraid that if everyone starts saying Arsenal can win the EPL and he doesn’t, having no excuse, he will be sacked from his beloved job.
Wenger is afraid of buying/keeping players because he doesn’t want to raise expectations. He has found the sweet spot of mediocrity and he’s happy rolling in at 4th.
i totally agree with you, the last thing arsenal could do is to do business with man u, what a mistake, i really wonder who decides this. Even if he does not play well at man u, just in case, Ferguson will have reduced significantly the fire power of arsenal, his one most important mission is to destabilize arsenal, he is realising a rise of his old rival club and u cant trust that F..man. I remember RVP confession a year or two ago when he said with him the only sweet trophy of his career would only be with arsenal! RVP do u remember that guys and u mr. captain. What has changed your mind, you still have time to mend.
And what about letting RvP walk to United on a free next summer? At least we get 20m for him now.
Manchester United are not Arsenal’s competitor. Tottenham, Newcastle and Liverpool are.
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“it is likely that they will find it hard to make it this year” ROFLMAO
A gamble, I agree, but only if you believe that RVP will perform at his peak for the season as he did throughout the last. A scenario of him being injured for a chunk of the season and Manu too broke to invest in another top striker could well have the opposite effect. We’ll know soon enough, I think
I totally agree, pls this must nt happen…it jst doesnt make any sence!
So you are saying that RVP to ManU will make the difference between us making the CL this season or not. It hardly shows much confidence in the rest of our players does it? You make RVP sound like some super-God who will determine the outcome of the CL places, and I don’t think he is. Also please avoid using the word ‘automatically’ when it comes to football. There’s nothing automatic about this game.
How on earth can Arsenal accept a bid from their rival.God are we going up or down? can somebody please tell. 4rm Johnmark gunners 4 life