By, Mark Finlay
10/3/14
There are rumours going around suggesting that former Arsenal striker Robin van Persie would like to return to the Gunners, and while I think it is true that he will be leaving Manchester United in the summer I do not see a move to the Emirates being on the cards, and here is why.
Gooners were so upset when the man they stood by all those years when he was side-lined with injury, or went through bad runs of form could just turn his back on the club and its supporters who loved him unquestionably.
The five paragraphs he meticulously wrote on his personal website were not for the fans he professed to love but were written for himself even using the same cliché catch phrases that seems to be ingrained in footballers such as ‘‘it’s not about me, it’s about team’, ‘we’re just taking one game at a time’, ‘the most important thing were the three points.’ The Dutchman obviously or the person that handled his PR took one straight out of the Wayne Rooney playbook when he was trying to engineer a move to Manchester City, and later used again by Luka Modric when he was holding Spurs to ransom saying: “ I disagree with the way the club should move forward.”
Then there was the way he seemed to justify the move to Old Trafford by showing off his Premier League title winning medal to every journalist who wanted to take a photograph with him wearing it just to rub it in the face of all those loyal Arsenal fans to point out how he had made the right decision to move clubs.
His current salary of £240,000 per week is something Arsenal would never be prepared to pay for a 30-year-old striker, never mind the best part of the £24 million United paid Arsenal in the first place that they would like to try and get back.
It’s as if your wife suddenly told you that she wanted a divorce, and them went and married one of your competitors, only to come back a couple of years later to say she had made a horrible mistake and wanted to get back with you, but of course by then you had also found someone else and no matter how much feeling you may have had for her once the love was no longer there.
When Robin van Persie left Arsenal he hurt a lot of people that you would hear openly say that he would never leave because he loved Arsenal.
Yet in the end that is exactly what he did do to the disbelief of the fans that had stood by him which is the reason he cannot come back to Arsenal even if he agreed to play for free.
