RVP: He's gone. We'll get over it

So its done!!! Arsenal have accepted terms with Man. United for RVP. The deal is worth $24million. Ofcourse I am not aware how much United will be paying RVP but I am sure it will be close to the highest salaries being currently paid in the league.

Curious as it may seem, I dont feel hard done by RVP at all (http://adducelebrity.blogspot.com/2012/07/van-persie-situat.html) . Maybe it is because being a Gooner I have now been used to this phenomenon, what with the experiences of Nasir and Adebayor. RVP displayed some calm when he said that the his contract talks and any gossip related to that will have to wait till the Euros were done, but post the Euros and ofcourse the horror show of his team it was all downhill. The immaturity of his comments then made it clear in my mind that Arsenal will be better offloading him. Coming off perhaps the best season he had with the Gunners and with a year's contract left now was the time to make money off him. Arsene Wegner made the right call in my honest opinion.

I have not really understood the rationale behind keeping the transfer window open for two weeks after the season begins. Each time any player transfer saga unfolds and enter the last week before the start of the season I cannot forget the Lescott move to Man City. Moyes was in no mood to let go Lescott and rejects offers worth $15mil and $18mil from City. Ofcourse there was a lot of love lose between the player and club on that. All that culminated in a poor show on the opening day of the season when Arsenal drubbed Everton 6-1 with Moyes blaming Lescott's 'poor attitude' and consequently dropping him until he was sold off to City. To that effect when Arsene said that he would want to  get done with RVP before the season starts one way or the other was very reassuring. You dont want that 'poor attitude' on the pitch especially in Gunner jersey. I am not saying it would have come to that but then there was a possibility.

What Arsenal achieved last season was in major part RVP's doing. He could have very well stayed on finished his career here which is at best 2-3 years. But the fact remains that the RVP has always been an injury-risk. Infact the last season was his only season with the Gunners where he played 25 or more games. So considering all this I still think Arsene did good.

With RVP gone we have 2 new strikers for the season. Podolski is proven I would say at the international stage, whereas Giroud is just getting to know the ropes. Not a bad deal really. There were folks who wanted to hold onto RVP for this season so that he could be something of a guide for the new signings, but then its not worth $24million.

Lets see how fit RVP can remain this season with Man.United. Here's another opinion on the deal http://sports.yahoo.com/news/manchester-united-deal-arsenal-robin-van-persie-could-214800560.html

For now as Arseblog puts it: He's gone. We'll get over it.