Van Persie and that sensational background: ‘It was all done to come to Serie A!’ | Market

There was a summer when Juventus were about to bring one of the best forwards of that moment to Italy. It deals with Robin van Persiewho in 2012 was one step away from the black and whites, as the former striker himself recounts in an interview withEffe Relativize Podcast: “One day the president of Arsenal showed me the positive balance, I replied that I wasn’t interested in anything and I just wanted to win the Premier League”. There, something breaks: “I wanted to leave England, so I found an agreement with Juventus but Arsenal blew everything up. So I went to Manchester United.”