No we don’t, we are as the cliché goes bigger than him, bigger than any player. He leaves, he is replaced, we move on.
I can understand his agent trying to spin this scenario as he still has to turn out for us each week, and on that basis needs supporters on his sides, however at this point of proceedings it is very difficult to see him staying.
If he really wanted to stay it would have been sorted in the summer, now it is definitely within his interest to see out his deal and see what is on offer elsewhere.
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."
Still very much the luxury player at times. He doesn't always 'put in a shift' when we're up against it, so to speak.
His talent is there for all to see but I could never really take the rumours about him going to United as being serious. Maureen loves a workhorse and that isn't him.
“Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.”
My recollection of him at RM was him having far more time and space on the ball than he does with us, and more options in front of him. Because he played with better players and in a league with less teams that offered RM any threat. In that environment I thought he did very well.
Before Mourinho substituted him on 70 minutes, of course.