The next time Robin van Persie puts pen to paper, it will almost definitely be the defining  moment of his career. It will be the moment he decides what’s important to him as a footballer, and in many ways, as a human being. Do you chase titles and trophies, go after the very things you dreamt about when you were a kid? Or do you stay with the club you love till the end, even if probably means allowing certain ambitions to fly away in the wind? One thing that’s for sure is it won’t be easy, and there will be people who sneer at him whatever decision he makes. Be it the wrath of the jilted Arsenal faithful, who would have to watch another suitor slip away to a flashier but supposedly less substantial girl, and would not take kindly to it. Or the rest of the footballing world, that will look to the solitary FA Cup medal he won as a teenager and sneer that he was too great a player to have won as many trophies as Alex McCleish’s managerial career has yielded, and he took what was comfortable over truly challenging himself. It’s a tough call. But because I’m a nice guy, I’ve assessed all the potential outcomes and provided a basis of what might happen here to y’all.

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