Remember the inflammatory nature of Mikael Silvestre’s switch to the Gunners a few years back? The streets of Manchester strewn with burning effigies of the heavy-skulled goal prevention unit, the Emirates ensconced in home made banners with ‘Welcome to North London’ painted across them in human blood, and the torrential chants, oh, how they made chants. Well, Arsenal, now you know how it feels! It looks almost certain now that last season’s top scorer and truffle footed silver-haired fox Robin van Persie will join Manchester United, for a fee of up to £24 million, after the club officially announced the agreement with Arsenal on their website yesterday evening.
A four-year contract is believed to have been offered to the Dutch gentleman, who looks set to join former Dortmund maestro Shinji Kagawa and Inbetweeners extra Nick Powell in Sir Alex Ferguson’s bid to stop the rot.
It was beginning to look like another suspicious transfer window for United. With Wesley Sneijder, Luka Modric, and most recently, Lucas Moura all being linked over the past few transfer windows, the skeptics could put a case together for the club simply making nonchalant bids here and there to keep up appearances. This would show United’s fans that they’re still willing to spend, as they’re publicly bidding big bucks for top players, but in the full knowledge it won’t really come off.
Well, if this is their strategy, their latest bluff has been called by Arsenal, who have finally decided to sell their club captain. Gunners fans will be understandably distraught that yet another of their finest players has lost patience with Wenger’s plans and moved on, but United fans may be slightly perplexed themselves.
After that unfathomably unnerving footage of the Glazers officially putting 10% of the club on the New York stock market, feverishly ringing some loony bell and throwing demented grins towards a crowd of cheering businessmen in a scene that was only missing confetti for it to be mistaken for a zany gameshow, the tenuous finances at United under their American owners is beginning to show more and more transparency. So what are they doing signing a 29-year-old with a longstanding relationship with the treatment table?
That, for now at least, is all a little bit grown up for any United fan to trouble themselves with. The current situation stands thus: Robin van Persie will be lining up for the red half of Manchester this season. He might get a lot of injuries, and he might get distracted by lucrative marketing deals with Just for Men, but the prospect of him at his best represents a sumptuous catch. It all feels a little bit unreal. Dimitar Berbatov declined to comment when asked about the news, but he did roll his eyes before returning to his Anna Karenina paperback.
Ryan
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Remember the inflammatory nature of Mikael Silvestre’s switch to the Gunners a few years back? The streets of Manchester strewn with burning effigies of the heavy-skulled goal prevention unit, the Emirates ensconced in home made banners with ‘Welcome to North London’ painted across them in human blood, and the torrential chants, oh, how they made chants. Well, Arsenal, now you know how it feels! It looks almost certain now that last season’s top scorer and truffle footed silver-haired fox Robin van Persie will join Manchester United, for a fee of up to £24 million, after the club officially announced the agreement with Arsenal on their website yesterday evening.
A four-year contract is believed to have been offered to the Dutch gentleman, who looks set to join former Dortmund maestro Shinji Kagawa and Inbetweeners extra Nick Powell in Sir Alex Ferguson’s bid to stop the rot.
It was beginning to look like another suspicious transfer window for United. With Wesley Sneijder, Luka Modric, and most recently, Lucas Moura all being linked over the past few transfer windows, the skeptics could put a case together for the club simply making nonchalant bids here and there to keep up appearances. This would show United’s fans that they’re still willing to spend, as they’re publicly bidding big bucks for top players, but in the full knowledge it won’t really come off.
Well, if this is their strategy, their latest bluff has been called by Arsenal, who have finally decided to sell their club captain. Gunners fans will be understandably distraught that yet another of their finest players has lost patience with Wenger’s plans and moved on, but United fans may be slightly perplexed themselves.
After that unfathomably unnerving footage of the Glazers officially putting 10% of the club on the New York stock market, feverishly ringing some loony bell and throwing demented grins towards a crowd of cheering businessmen in a scene that was only missing confetti for it to be mistaken for a zany gameshow, the tenuous finances at United under their American owners is beginning to show more and more transparency. So what are they doing signing a 29-year-old with a longstanding relationship with the treatment table?
That, for now at least, is all a little bit grown up for any United fan to trouble themselves with. The current situation stands thus: Robin van Persie will be lining up for the red half of Manchester this season. He might get a lot of injuries, and he might get distracted by lucrative marketing deals with Just for Men, but the prospect of him at his best represents a sumptuous catch. It all feels a little bit unreal. Dimitar Berbatov declined to comment when asked about the news, but he did roll his eyes before returning to his Anna Karenina paperback.
Ryan
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