Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby Goners » Sun Nov 27, 2011 1:31 pm

Manchester City line up Robin van Persie to replace Carlos Tevez

Arsenal's Robin van Persie is thought to be highly regarded by the Manchester City manager, Roberto Mancini.

Robin van Persie is prominently in Roberto Mancini's thoughts as Manchester City plan for life without Carlos Tevez and reluctantly prepare to take a huge financial hit on the Argentinian.

The potential availability of the Arsenal captain, who is in the last two years of his contract and showing no desire to negotiate new terms, has been discussed at Eastlands, with the Dutchman already under consideration even before the controversy that has left Tevez a pariah at the club.

Mancini believes City will be fortunate to get £20m in the January transfer window for a player they valued at more than twice that amount in the summer. The club's owners in Abu Dhabi are clinging to the belief they can still get close to their original asking price but, in Manchester, they think that unlikely in the extreme given that those sums of money, with a £250,000-a-week salary also to be taken into account, put off potential buyers in the last window. One senior figure has acknowledged Tevez's value "is on the floor". Likewise, the player's camp are confident a £20m bid will persuade City to sell and that it could be even less.

After that, City's information is that Van Persie, 28, can be prised from Arsenal on an increasingly well-trodden route that has seen Emmanuel Adebayor, Kolo Touré, Gaël Clichy and Samir Nasri make the same journey in recent years.

As Tevez began his two-week suspension, Mancini summoned his players to a team meeting before Thursday's training session to make it clear he would not tolerate any more of the kind of indiscipline that has fractured his relationship with the former captain.

There continues to be no sense of contrition from Tevez, despite the perhaps over-optimistic view from Abu Dhabi that there could be an apology and a reconciliation, and the club have begun the process of interviewing the players who were alongside Tevez on the bench at Bayern Munich's Allianz Arena on Tuesday, when he apparently refused to play. Mancini's coaches have already sustained his complaints but the Tevez camp hope the players in question – Aleksandar Kolarov, James Milner, Pablo Zabaleta and Joleon Lescott – will be reluctant to give evidence against him. Tevez's understanding is that the players, unwilling to go against one of their own, will cite the noise inside the stadium as why they cannot be clear what happened.

Mancini's preference is that the club, investigating a possible case of gross misconduct, do not terminate Tevez's contract, primarily because of the distraction a long, drawn-out affair, possibly heading to the courts, could cause. However, it is a reflection of how he has come to regard Tevez that his thinking is, in part, influenced by something more personal. Mancini, quite simply, does not want Tevez to become available on a free transfer because it would make it easier for the player to secure the big-club move he craves.

The manager would rather Tevez be isolated, training with the youth-team or on a one-on-one basis with a fitness coach, and then sold in January, albeit for a cut-price fee. For City, however, it is not straightforward. Uppermost in their thoughts is that ostracising the player could give him grounds to claim constructive dismissal.

City also have to be mindful that player contracts have been altered in the last few years to protect Professional Footballers' Association members, and the union would almost certainly appeal on Tevez's behalf if he were sacked. The club intend to fine Tevez two weeks' wages, around £500,000, but if they want to increase that amount they have to put it to the PFA for approval. The maximum is a six-week fine and with Tevez denying any wrongdoing and sticking to his story that it was "a misunderstanding", the PFA will be obliged to defend him even though their own chairman, Clarke Carlisle, has described what happened in Munich as "inexcusable".

The case is now out of Mancini's hands and assigned to the club's legal and HR departments, with the manager under instruction not to comment at Friday's press conference. A decision will come next week.

In the meantime there are threatening to be ramifications for Tevez with the Argentina national team. Tevez was left out of the last squad, with the coach Alejandro Sabella's explanation corroborating Mancini's account that the player is out of shape. Sabella spoke of someone who was "not fully fit … not training well at the moment and (had) put on a bit of weight", and will almost certainly exclude him for their forthcoming games

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Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby Reverend Gooner » Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:01 pm

Of course RVP is highly regarded, that article doesn't suggest any real chance of a bid though thankfully. They don't need to replace Tevez, that is what Aguero did.
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Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby Arsenal~Fanatic » Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:12 pm

One more article made out of nothing ...sigh..
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Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby gzagee » Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:20 pm

The article looks like it was written back at the time. Bit old to post it now.
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Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby TRA Dial Square » Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:26 pm

Written: Thursday 29 September 2011

Why post it now Goners? lol
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Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby Goners » Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:51 pm

TRA Dial Square wrote:Written: Thursday 29 September 2011

Why post it now Goners? lol


Sorry lol read it in the mail not the guardian (They all seem to read the same anyway!), here's the story I should have posted:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... ersie.html


Manchester City to go Dutch with bid for Van Persie as they look to become Europe's best


Manchester City will react to their likely exit from this season’s Champions League by stepping up their attempt to sign Robin van Persie this summer.

Although the club’s oil-rich owners will accept the Premier League title and possible success in the two domestic cups as consolation for European failure this time, they will underpin their determination to create the best team on the continent at the Etihad Stadium with a money-no-object bid for Arsenal’s 28-year-old goal machine.


The Mail On Sunday revealed City’s interest in Van Persie in September, and last week’s 2-1 defeat against Napoli, with its potential financial consequences for the club, has heightened the desire to sign the Dutchman.

Following the news of City’s £195million loss for the year ending May 31, the expectation was that an extended Champions League run — possibly even to the final — would be the launching pad for much healthier results in this financial year.


Though City said the record-breaking loss was expected and represented the low point, competing in the Europa League will bring in nowhere near the same revenue.

City will be able to cash in on UEFA’s decision to drop proposed transfer restrictions on clubs who contravene their Financial Fair Play regulations restricting clubs to losses of no more than £38m over the next three seasons.


Arsenal, one of the top clubs who supported UEFA’s initial stand, look like being one of the first to suffer from it being dropped.

Van Persie’s reluctance to extend a contract which runs out at the end of next season leaves a question mark over his future.
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Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby yosifun » Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:33 pm

Nice joke, would rather have him go to Real Madrid when his contract ends (if he won't resigns for us) than have him sold to Shitty.
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Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby Arsenal Tone » Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:49 pm

He'll go to whoever offers us the most money. That is how our club works.

There is no way he'll sign a new contract if we don't make decent signings in january and i just can't see AW splashing the cash.
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Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby GunnGunn » Sun Nov 27, 2011 3:54 pm

We'll see how loyal he is soon enough.

If he ever did go to Man City, that's the day I completely lose faith in this club, and the day the world sees that AW has single handedly destroyed it.
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Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby ivan itchybum » Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:03 pm

its all the same shit with those articles. For me if there are no quotes from someone like a manager or an agent then it is meaningless.
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Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby Inchpräctice » Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:05 pm

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Re: Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby Leody » Sun Nov 27, 2011 5:13 pm

Inchpractice wrote::sleepy2:

+1

Nothing story, fabricated from nothing.
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Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby CrimsonGunner11 » Sun Nov 27, 2011 5:22 pm

GunnGunn wrote:We'll see how loyal he is soon enough.

If he ever did go to Man City, that's the day I completely lose faith in this club, and the day the world sees that AW has single handedly destroyed it.


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Re: Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby StLGooner » Mon Nov 28, 2011 1:37 pm

Leody wrote:
Inchpractice wrote::sleepy2:

+1

Nothing story, fabricated from nothing.


I remember people saying that same thing about Nas and Clichy, and all the others too.
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Re: Robin van Persie a target for Roberto Mancini

Postby Futuo » Mon Nov 28, 2011 2:09 pm

Goners wrote:
Sorry lol read it in the mail not the guardian (They all seem to read the same anyway!)


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