An intriguing question, with eight goals in four games, and receiving the Premier League’s player of the month for October, are we indeed getting too reliant on Robin Van Persie and could that get to a point where he decides he has had enough of doing it all and being relied on to grab the goals himself in that striker position?
It is a known fact we do not have a competent replacement at present for him if the unthinkable happens, and he gets injured or has to miss matches for any other reason, with Chamakh being the waste that he is whenever he plays and new signing Park Chu-Young who has yet to be fully tested after playing just two games in the Carling Cup so far, since signing at the end of the transfer window at the end of August, it looks pretty bleak, but at the same time we cannot wrap Robin up in cotton wool.
Arsene Wenger was full of praise once again for Van Persie, who added his 11th goal of the season in a well worked goal against WBA yesterday, Vermaelen and Arteta also found the net during the game, but it is the flying Dutchman who one again made the headlines in this fantastic season for him:
“At the moment it is difficult to stop him. He was not only a goalscorer but a provider today, that’s what I like with the strikers. The only thing I know is that he is world class. When I was a kid, in Germany they had three rankings: national class, international class and world class. World class we always knew four or five players but I would put him into that calibre. “
Wenger was also quick to suggest that Van Persie is indeed in that calibre of current World class strikers, but hesitated in actually saying that:
“There is some quality there. But of course [Lionel] Messi will win again. He is the best player in the world and deservedly so because he won everything. Let’s not put too much pressure on Robin and let him enjoy a full season. I think we can make a better assessment at the end of the season. “
We really need to sign at least another experienced striker in January I feel to take some of the pressure off of Van Persie, or I fear by January we may well have burned him out.
