Last Friday, former Gunner John Hartson beaome vocal in the ‘will he, won’t he’ debate that is currently circling Arsenal ace Robin van Persie.
Hartson is under the impression that if the 28-year-old leaves The Emirates this summer the club would recover:
‘He’ll be a massive loss but they recovered when Henry left, they recovered when Wright left.
‘Arsenal are not a one man club and if he doesn’t want to stay, they may be better off cashing in.’
I have to agree with Hartson, we have lost great players and recovered in the past.
If RVP decides he is going to leave then I’d be happier taking some money for him now than having to go through it all over again and have him leave for free next summer – it just doesn’t make any business sense to me whatsoever.
Lets say for arguments sake that Arsenal do decide to let him go, we will be offered a huge sum for his departure which would HAVE to be put back into the club straight away this summer. But if Robin leaves for free at the end of next season then WE STILL have to replace him, and that money will have to come from somewhere.
Like all Arsenal fans, I would love Robin to stay at the club as I think the partnership he would have with Lukas Podolski and Theo Walcott would be extremely positive for us. However, a lot of what is coming out at the moment is pure media speculation, which is making people wonder why he isn’t signing a new deal. As well as that Arsenal have handed placed a media ban on the striker not to discuss his future.
Hartson finished off by saying:
‘People think it will be the end of their world, but it’s not. Clubs recover.’
This is true. No one player is bigger than the club. Everyone said with Cesc Fabregas we were a one-man team, with Thierry Henry we were a one-man team and now RVP they are saying the same. The British media love to hate us, they never have a good word to say about our club until we have proven them wrong, which we continue to do time after time.
So is Hartson right? Damn right he is, and deep down we all know that even if RVP decides to call it quits we will move on and continue to progress.
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