Robin van Persie has been urged by world champion athlete and ardent Arsenal fan Mo Farah to quit the club if he wants to be considered truly world-class.
The 28-year-old is currently in limbo after revealing to the club that he will not be renewing his contract beyond 2013.
As a result, Manchester City, Manchester United, Juventus, Real Madrid and Barcelona are all primed to make a move for the Holland international, leaving Arsenal, for the second summer in a row, in quite a dilemma – sell the striker now or lose him for nothing next summer.
Arsenal have not seen any silverware since 2005 and City are prepared to offer RVP the wages he is seeking, and Farah reckons the striker is right to consider his future:
‘I don’t think it’s anything to do with money. It’s more him wanting to win things.
‘I would love for him to stay, but unfortunately you have to think of yourself and you have to think of your career.’
He added:
‘It’s OK what the public and other people think, but, deep down, you know.
‘For me, with my family on the other side of the world, knowing I was coming sixth and sixth, something had to change if I was going to compete with the top guys.
‘Van Persie probably thinks the same way.’
Everyone has there own views on the matter, me, I just hope this doesn’t drag on as long as it has too.
Hopefully he will be sold before the season kicks off so that the club can concentrate on the more important things at hand.
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Who the hell is Mo Farah? Mo Mowlam?
11-time Olympic gold winner.
Ths is nt olympic ths is EPL thts y we dnt knw him. Tell Farah he shld chase atheletics politics he dnt belong here
The guy dint even represent his own country he’s a fake so there’s o expecting loyalty from him
arsenal fan my ass.someone tell ds guy,arsenal r only goin 2 win thngz with world class players.bt ur ryt,ds saga hs 2 end soon.van persie is a crock n he shudnt hold ds gret club 2 ransom.poldoski n giroud wil do a gret job plus i feel ds i goin 2b gervinho,s year.
U ONE OF THE BOARD MEMBERS WHO LETS WENGER DO ALL THE WORK WHILST U SIT ON AFC FOR IT’S PENSION?
You somalian idiot, there is every reason RVP can win things at Arsenal. If RVP stays we look srong… RVP, Giroud, Podolski is a potenially a formidable attack, add wilshre, song arteta thats a qauilty midfeild.Our defence will be a lot better this season with steve Bould as AW’s no.2. Mo Farah should go and support the Spuds!
Thats racist
I think so too…Mo Farah is entitled to his opinion.IMO
that is not racist. stop term it as that.
bruce lee, you bigoted weakling, why didnt you post using your real name ?
“somalian idiot” speaks the truth making a lower than what u labelled MO Farah
Nothing named somalian, its called somali.
To Bruce the idiot, why can’t you criticise the guy without being so bigoted. Mo Farah has the right to express his opinion and I for one agree with him that VP’s saga should be solved one way or another for Arsenal’s sake.
Showtime: Now in English mate!
No true Arsenal fan can make such statements. Shut your trap unless it is something useful….Farah..who the f**k are you anyways?!
He’s a European and World champion.
who care.?
^Who cares about your fucked up Nigerian opinion
RVP will leave,100%. Don’t blame him.The fm is to be blamed. I blieve the longer the fm stays at Arsenal he will finally cause the gunners to go inot terminal decline from which they will take a long,long ,long time to recover lost ground.
But what do you expect from a person that refuse to race for his native country but chose UK. They are all mercenaries.
Bit like… Owen Hargreeves, KP & the rest of the cricket players, not to mention Gazza who from another planet all together!
If the Van wants to win something he could have won Euro 2012 with the Holland world cup squad.
1.you are all childish answering to mo farah who doesn’t know anything about football, he’s a runner so he has to win a medal but football is a collective games.
2. van persie has already been replaced why are you still reacting, he wanted to hold the club to ransom like cesc and nasri last summer but failed. wenger already bought giroud. now he can sign up or f**k off.
Im an Arsenal fan too, but face it. We havent won sh#% for 7 years and wont win unless we spend. Farah is right ofc RVP should quit.