Robin van Persie | 2012-14 Performances

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Mo Farah said:
“Us Gooners said goodbye to a living legend — Robin van Persie.”

“I’m an athlete, so I can understand his decision. He’s moved to Man United in pursuit of trophies."

“As a runner I make my own destiny in my sport, but in team games it is more tricky."

“You have to pick the right team around you to help you to win those trophies."

“I guess he felt it was going to be harder at Arsenal to win some silverware than at Man Utd."

“But speaking as a fan, I’m absolutely gutted Arsenal have lost him. He is pure footballing class.”
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Simple.
 
God, this guy on talksport

"Who has more chance of winning the league next year, United or Arsenal?"
"MADRID OR BARCELONA!"
"No, between Arsenal and United"
"I dunno!"
"Who has the better chance of winning trophies"
"I dunno!"
 
Berbatov at United: "Remember that year Berba was the league-leading goalscorer? He had a hat trick against Liverpool. We won the league that year."

Van Persie at Arsenal: "Remember that year Van Persie was the league-leading goalscorer? ...good times."
 
CnutOfAllCnuts said:
Even Arsenal fans reckon younareba clueless Ihni binni dimi diniwiny anitaime?

Or did they get bored with your obsession with United?
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I suspect it's more difficult to argue with people when you can't use 'Berbatov' for every punchline.
 
I do hope you guys were listening to that Arsenal fan who was screaming on talksport? Glorious.
 
Colin129 said:
He'll sell a lot of shirts, I'm sure, half the Cafe already have their's on order.

He'll help to win us more trophies, & so more prize money/TV deal money, I doubt he'll end up costing us a bean.
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Not with #20 on his back.
 
gooDevil said:
This may be a new low. "Yeah, you may have a much better team, but there is naught but ugliness in the heart of your team's players!"

I can see it now, "Arsenal! We're better Christians!"
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Arsenal and City will battle it out for the Moral Victors Cup
 
Jason Cundy saying Arsenal hadn't won a title since he was in nappies was funny, seeing as Chelsea went 50 years without the league.
 
Colin129 said:
He'll sell a lot of shirts, I'm sure, half the Cafe already have their's on order.

He'll help to win us more trophies, & so more prize money/TV deal money, I doubt he'll end up costing us a bean.
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Ah, but that doesn't count if you're trying to fabricate an argument that a club has overpaid for a player. That's the reason people now include salaries with the player's supposed "total cost" to the club, to create an inflated image of a transfer fee that far outweighs any other transfer fees of similarly talented people.

I can't ever recall someone discussing the Cole, or Ruud, transfer with a focus on "total cost". It was just exciting to see quality players signing for the club.

This transfer brings that excitement back and makes me feel, if only for a week or two, that football is simply football. No finances, no resale values, no merchandise calculations... just a football team I support buying quality players to win games.
 
Arsenal losing their best player to us reminds me of Rooney-gate and the links with City. I don't think we'd react too differently if that did actually go through.
 
WR said:
Arsenal losing their best player to us reminds me of Rooney-gate and the links with City. I don't think we'd react too differently if that did actually go through.
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That's a fair point, which a lot of us have acknowledged. I think we can kind of understand the frustration of the Arsenal fans at the moment. I do feel for them a little, but as it's been said it's not too different in most cases to them buying a player from a lower club in the table, which they've done plenty of times. They can just be thankful that we haven't been extremists when it comes to tapping up like Barca were with Fabregas, who was destined to go eventually anyway.

I know that comparisons were drawn between the two situations as well. Some said that RVP's motives were like Rooney's: he didn't want to leave that much and was just making a threat to get a bigger and better contract. Obviously that's not been the case in the end though.
 
Cheesy said:
That's a fair point, which a lot of us have acknowledged. I think we can kind of understand the frustration of the Arsenal fans at the moment. I do feel for them a little, but as it's been said it's not too different in most cases to them buying a player from a lower club in the table, which they've done plenty of times.
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At least we made most teams happy financially. We overpaid for players in most cases. They pay peanuts.
 
Banter is part of what makes football so great.

Getting to rip on your Arsenal mate after you smash them 8-2, then avoiding your City supporting mate when they beat us 6-1.
Of course, every club's fans go through the stages of grief over things like this- it's human nature, but we should enjoy it anyway.. they wouldn't be easy on us if it was the other way around.
 
WR said:
Arsenal losing their best player to us reminds me of Rooney-gate and the links with City. I don't think we'd react too differently if that did actually go through.
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It's hard not to enjoy it when it's your club that benefits, but it's essentially shit that this can happen. It's no different from City really, they can just do it more often.

The reason it's shit is because it makes winning mean less. pete's bravado notwithstanding, we were already a good bit better than Arsenal and this season we'll probably be much better. But what does it mean, when we've just gone and bought their best player?

That said, if all goes well it will be a real pleasure watching him play for us. It's like if you steal a masterpiece, it presumably still feels good looking at it on your wall.
 
CnutOfAllCnuts said:
He will be remembered at Old Trafford.

We are good at that, remembering our players, past and present.
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Dennis Law.

God.

Even after playing for city and scoring that goal.

Sometimes, you just have to accept your heroes outgrow your club.

Law was too good for us at that point, just like Van Persie was too good for a team whos only ambition is getting 4th.
 
Plechazunga said:
It's like if you steal a masterpiece, it presumably still feels good looking at it on your wall.
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That's just about greed and covetousness in the end. You can go to the Prado and gaze at Goyas to your heart's content - you don't need to own them.
 
Nogbadthebad said:
Dennis Law.

God.

Even after playing for city and scoring that goal.

Sometimes, you just have to accept your heroes outgrow your club.

Law was too good for us at that point, just like Van Persie was too good for a team whos only ambition is getting 4th.
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Eh?
 
Plechazunga said:
It's hard not to enjoy it when it's your club that benefits, but it's essentially shit that this can happen. It's no different from City really, they can just do it more often.

The reason it's shit is because it makes winning mean less. pete's bravado notwithstanding, we were already a good bit better than Arsenal and this season we'll probably be much better. But what does it mean, when we've just gone and bought their best player?

That said, if all goes well it will be a real pleasure watching him play for us. It's like if you steal a masterpiece, it presumably still feels good looking at it on your wall.
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Well signing Van Persie from Arsenal is no different than signing Rooney from Everton, Berbatov or Carrick from Spurs. We're aren't competing with those clubs for the title, we are competing with City. Arsenal haven't competed in the league for years same as Everton and Spurs. If we suddenly got a huge investment of money and took City's best players then yeah you have a right to feel cheapened by the win, but that's obviously not the case.

Finishing above Arsenal isn't really a highlight. We've done for a good time now.
 
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