According to BBC Sport's David Ornstein, Van Persie's preference is to stay at Arsenal, whether he signs a new contract or not, and that the ball is in Arsenal's court.
This came from his twitter account, but before you say 'Twitter ' remember that this is an official BBC Sport account and BBC is probably the most reliable source out there, and this David Ornstein fella has generally been spot on with Arsenal news in the past, he was the first BBC/SkySports journo to break Giroud. He did say we wouldn't sign Arteta, but that was in the lull between our having a bid rejected and Arteta handing in a transfer request.
I always thought RvP would prefer to win trophies at Arsenal if possible, and this news confirms it. It doesn't however mean he's definitely staying, things may well change over the next month or so.
Thoughts?
RvP 'keen' to stay
posted on 27/6/12
AWW, I know, I'm not overly concerned about M'Vila to be honest though. Also that might have changed in the last 2 weeks or however long it is.
posted on 27/6/12
To be completely honest, and don't take this personally, but I'm completely bored of the whole thing. This sort of pointless speculation only really exists to sell papers.
I said a long time ago that I thought RvP will be held to his contract and, if he wants to leave at the end of it, released to do whatever he pleases. And I'm fine with that. Nothing I've read here, or in the big wide world, has changed that one iota.
posted on 27/6/12
Didn't RVP himself say his future would be sorted out between the end of the season and the Euros? Wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
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No, he has never said that, you have completely misunderstood the entire situation. He has constantly said nothing will happen until the Euros end.
posted on 27/6/12
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I think that was the ideal situation for RvP and Arsenal, but it wasn't actually a very long time and the fact that they placed a media ban on RvP suggests nothing was settled.
posted on 27/6/12
To be completely honest, and don't take this personally, but I'm completely bored of the whole thing. This sort of pointless speculation only really exists to sell papers.
I said a long time ago that I thought RvP will be held to his contract and, if he wants to leave at the end of it, released to do whatever he pleases. And I'm fine with that. Nothing I've read here, or in the big wide world, has changed that one iota.
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I'm bored of reading about it in the papers as well, it's all unfounded rubbish with no quotes whatsoever, designed, as you said, to sell papers.
However the Beeb are different, and I really want to see RvP alongside our new boys. Hopefully that isn't shot down in flames.
posted on 27/6/12
Didn't RVP himself say his future would be sorted out between the end of the season and the Euros? Wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.
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no, he didn't.
He said they would sit down and discuss it, which they did, but then he had to join up with the netherlands, so it was all put on hold.
posted on 27/6/12
If this is at all accurate and RVP is keen to stay, then really there should be no excuse for the club failing to give him an acceptable contract, just as long as he isn't trying to hold the club to ransom or anything. More than any of the signings we've made, this is obviously the club's top priority. If he does sign, then Theo will almost certainly follow him as well.
posted on 27/6/12
Keeping RVP, Theo would be the best signings of the summer.
Pod, a good central midfielder and giroud would be the squad bolstering we need to finally win us something.
posted on 27/6/12
twitter actually has a lot of reliable sources. you just have to follow the right people which members on here dont seem to
posted on 27/6/12
Question is, how reliable is David Ornstein?