Manchester United boss David Moyes has admitted that RVP has been playing after having injections in his toes for pain, but has dismissed talk of him not being happy at Old Trafford.
According to Moyes it is “complete nonsense” to assert that the Dutch international is not happy at Manchester United telling reporters that it is injury’s that are behind the Dutchman’s frustration.
The word in Holland is that van Persie is not impressed by Moyes style of management, and the intense training regime he has imposed on all the United players.
Manchester United take on Stoke today at Old Trafford, and van Persie will have a fitness test prior to the match after missing the win over Spanish side Real Sociedad in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Despite not delivering the goal scoring form he showed last season under Sir Alex Ferguson new manager David Moyes says it is all down to injuries, and that there is no truth to the claim that he is not happy at United.
“That’s complete nonsense,” Moyes said. “He had a couple of sore toes and I told him before the Southampton game last Saturday that, if I played him in that, he would miss the Sociedad game to try to give his toes and groin a rest.
“His groins were a bit affected and he has been playing with injections. He played with injections for Holland – the first game [of the international break] he played with an injection, the second he didn’t.
“In previous games for us, he played with injections in his toes, so we were trying to get away from that and get away from injecting him.
“He’s been bothered by it, taking injections in one of his small toes, and then he got the other one stood on at Shakhtar Donetsk as well, so his toes have been bothering him for a long time.”
Moyes went on to say that rumours of RVP not being happy are “a load of rubbish. He has been great, fantastic”.
