Coming from a Man united fan who bought phill jones @$18 million? By the way who is better Caroll or Van Persie?NKT!!

Look at the age my friend!!! You sign Van Persie and at the end of the contract you have two unpalatable options - keep him on the payroll while he can no longer perform at the highest level or let him leave on a free transfer.

Phil Jones is 20. that means 9 years of service before he can get to Van Persie's age. And if you are a selling team like Arsenal, he might actually give you five years of service and still sell him at a profit.

You also look at the salary you will pay the individual. You can't spend big money on Van Persie, pay him £200,000+ per week and then have him leave on a free transfer in four years. You have to balance transfer fees and wages.

It's called the business end of football my friend!!!

Come srowre my friend

That article was simply meant to emphasize the fact that RvP's perceived value has significantly dwindled after the appaling performance by the Dutch. All of a sudden,only Juve want him for 24M pounds, according to "reports."

It looks more than likely that he'll stick in Arsenal and have to accept that generous offer of 130k pounds per week. For a guy I can bet will not repeat the season he just had with the gooners, that's a bargain!

To answer your question, RvP is better than Andy Carrol on any given Sunday, but RvP is 6 years older than Carrol.

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And Zhu Jun was to buy Liverpool what happened?

[quote=bkismat]Arsenal confirm Giroud deal
http://soccernet.espn.go...rom-montpellier?cc=3888[/quote]

Great signing....Figure this.An attacking thre of Podolski,RVP and Giroud.....That should terrify!!