Football FanCast columnist Jerome Johnstone cannot understand what gives Robin Van Persie the right to issue an ultimatum.

I have always found International football something of an enigma and never really bought into the hype and circus that seems to surround it. Games are rarely good, refereeing tends to be abysmal and it normally only takes 20 odd minutes before you start to channel hop.

The one thing I do like about it is that it tends to give you an insight in what your players are feeling about their respective football clubs and for one reason or another, happily choose random publications to let the world know of their views - do they honestly think it won't make its way to the English media?

Fernando Torres chose the Spanish press to slam the incompetence of Premier League defences, Cristiano Ronaldo chose some Brazilian publication of his desire to join Madrid and over the weekend Robin Van Persie decided to let those fans know (who pay his wages) that he may have to question his future at the football club if Arsenal sell anymore of their stars.

I have to say that I am not a huge fan of egotistical footballers and ones full of their own self importance. You look at the great players in the last 20yrs like your Dennis Bergkamp's, Gianfranco Zola's, Eric Cantona's or Jurgen Klinsmann's and they all carried themselves with an air of class and were never critical or would ever dream of spurting off about their employers. Could you ever have imagined Bergkamp questioning his own future, unless Arsenal did this or that - especially when you have spent most of your career like Van Persie has on the sidelines and hardly earned his keep there?

Maybe it is a generation thing and I should just accept that player power is ‘King', but I think it is wrong. Nobody is bigger than the football club, in my opinion, and if that is Van Persie's view then the Gunners should happily sell him - it would be interesting to see how many bigger clubs than Arsenal would take a chance on him.

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