Vieira: Henry may quit Arsenal

[brianodom]

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/6766194

Former Arsenal skipper Patrick Vieira has hinted Thierry Henry may quit the Emirates Stadium in the near future to "get the best for himself"

Vieira, who now plays for recently-crowned Serie A champions Internazionale, believes his France team-mate will look at other options this summer after a below-par season for the Gunners.

Henry has also had to deal with the departure of vice-president David Dein, a close ally of Arsene Wenger.

"Thierry is in the position where he is asking himself what he wants to do and I think it's normal," said 30-year-old Vieira.

"He has been at Arsenal a long time working with Dein and Wenger and he would consider his future if these two people who built the current Arsenal were to leave the club.

"I think Thierry will try to get the best for himself but if he was to stay it would be great for the club."

Henry was heavily linked with a move to Barcelona last summer but spurned the chance to leave North London and signed a new four-year contract.

The 29-year-old joined Arsenal for £10.5m from Juventus in August 1999 and has gone on to become the club's record goalscorer

[CRASH 4 ARSENAL]

UK headline writers are such a joke. In none of Paddy's quotes does he say what the headline writer says he said.

[shincan]

Sure--but Vieira is just talking about what another player might do if Wenger leaves. Speculation on top of speculation.

Plus, Henry will leave someday, and another striker, hopefully a great one, will fill the role. I don't want Henry to go ("no, Thierry. Promise me you'll never change! Never!"), but in a few years, I imagine he will. For now though, he has pledged himself to the club, and not necessarily to Dein.

[Rewinder]

Well technically Henry said he will be here as long as wenger is here, but he didn't explicitly say he would leave if wenger left.

[jegerpenge]

It'd be nice if Vieira would just keep his damn mouth shut. Didn't he quit the club? I could be mistaken. His opinion means nothing to me as a fan.

[ASkergonan]

A bunch of the usual nonsense, which will inevitably lead to a 10-page thread about the possibility of trading him for Landon Donovan and a first-round draft pick. ;)

[Red Agave]

Blah, blah.....yawn.

[carw2005]

He aint going nowhere, and currently there is no club that could pay Arsenal enough to let him leave...im sure that contract he signed is pretty water tight...

Plus in every interview i have seen Henry in, he says he loves the club, wants to stay, hates the spuds etc etc... :rolleyes:

[flyerhawk]

He aint going nowhere, and currently there is no club that could pay Arsenal enough to let him leave...im sure that contract he signed is pretty water tight...

Plus in every interview i have seen Henry in, he says he loves the club, wants to stay, hates the spuds etc etc... :rolleyes:

Not to mention that he just recently asked that the club NOT get rid of him because he believes in the future of this club and he wants to be part of it.

[rojagooner]

A bit off topic but one of many, many things that shows his love and dedication to the club. Taken from REDaction's myspace bulletin (no sources listed):

Arsenal captain Thierry Henry admits he knows Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich wanted to sign him.

Within a few weeks of buying Chelsea, Abramovich tried to buy Henry for £50million. The Frenchman said: "Yes, I knew that. And it felt great.

"But I am an Arsenal player and that was that. And every time I scored against Chelsea after that, I kissed the badge to show where my heart lies."

[zonametro]

A bit off topic but one of many, many things that shows his love and dedication to the club. Taken from REDaction's myspace bulletin (no sources listed):

Its too bad he wont get a chance to kiss the badge on Sunday!:(

[Silva 5]

Its too bad he wont get a chance to kiss the badge on Sunday!:(

*sheds a tear* such a cruel world

[akofman12345]

* Vieira hints at Henry exit
* Vieira: Arsenal future is bright
* Vieira: Wenger may leave

Those are currently the top three Arsenal headlines on skysports. Honestly, and this is too both skysports and Vieira, shut the ******** up. We have an important derby in a couple of days, anything about that? We already have someone who plays just like you Patrick, and hopefully in 4-5 years, i'll be able to say that he plays just as well also. I don't go to the Manchester United page, on a none CL day like this off course, and see Horseface and Keane giving their every opinion on a squad they no longer play for. So why must Vieira do that very thing, it is both frustrating and makes my heart skip a beat when i read headlines like those.

[zonametro]

Whatever Vieira has to say should just be disregarded if your an Arsenal fan even though he has his hollow Serie A trophy I bet he wishes he was still in red and white.

[ArsenalMN]

Feh. PV gives a 5 minute interview to some English rag. So they massage it, embellish it, stretch it and pull stuff out of their arse for 3 days of nonsensical headlines. Never believe a word they say.
Unless it's about Lehmann. He's gotten so nutty lately, I'd believe just about anything anyone said about him, no matter how outlandish. I fully expect him to show up on the pitch one of these days in lederhosen and do that boot slapping dance from National Lampoon's European Vacation.

[HighburyGoon]

It'd be nice if Vieira would just keep his damn mouth shut. Didn't he quit the club? I could be mistaken. His opinion means nothing to me as a fan.

Not that it really matters Logan, but the one time Vieira wasn't looking to leave, that was when Wenger and Dein decided to ship him out.

[RealMadGunner]

Ok, since this thread will go nowhere, i put in this little OT article ..

Conmen pose as Arsenal stars (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/football.html?in_article_id=452161&in_page_id=1779)

Conmen posing as Arsenal stars Thierry Henry and William Gallas have tricked five-star French hotels out of thousands of pounds of fine wines and champagne.

The London-based fraudsters book hotels rooms on credit cards before asking the hotels to send them wines they cannot get in England.

These are then followed up with faxed order confirmation forms and money transfer documents on fake bank letterheaded paper.

On one occasion a director at the Royal Riviera hotel in Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat on the French Riviera was asked to send 12 bottles of wine worth £90,000 back to England, including a vintage Petrus '82.

The director said the conmen then faxed through an order confirmation and fake funds transfer on Royal Bank of Scotland-headed notepaper.

But the staff were wise to the trick. He added that the documents are very well done and other hotels had been contacted by people posing as Chelsea striker Didier Drogba and Manchester United's Louis Saha.

So far 15 hotels across France have complained to police.

Henry's and Gallas's agents said their clients were aware of the racket.


Do we have the right players playing for us thsi season ?! This can explain why we are not scoring enough goals and conceeding too many .. :D

[jegerpenge]

Not that it really matters Logan, but the one time Vieira wasn't looking to leave, that was when Wenger and Dein decided to ship him out.

Meh, it would seem. I still think that they weighed their options of having him do the little song and dance every summer and seemingly holding it over their heads or just getting it over with and making a bit of cash out of it. To me, yes, Wenger and Dein did the releasing, but it was his attitude at the end, bordering on disrespect to the club itself, that was actually at fault. In my eyes, he was the one that left, although, not necessarily on paper.

[antifan]

Meh, it would seem. I still think that they weighed their options of having him do the little song and dance every summer and seemingly holding it over their heads or just getting it over with and making a bit of cash out of it. To me, yes, Wenger and Dein did the releasing, but it was his attitude at the end, bordering on disrespect to the club itself, that was actually at fault. In my eyes, he was the one that left, although, not necessarily on paper.
They gave him the choice of staying or going, and he left. He said it himself.

[kanonier]

I don't think Vieira is seeking out the media to make these comments. I guarantee you he probably was asked a few Arsenal questions in some random interview, he gave some opinions, and those two or three comments are being stretched into two or three articles. It's stupid.