The striker got injured during a friendly game with Dutch national team against Italy on 14 November from a challenge of Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini.

The French coach is unhappy with the way the KNVB went about the treatment of the injury.

Van Persie will be out for at least another 4 months.

"I believe that the friendlies during the season should be banned," Wenger is quoted on the club's website.

"Contrary to what people say I believe they are made to make money and for diplomatic purposes, for political purposes. We are working on it with our lawyers at the moment but we are definitely going for it," said the manager.

"You cannot get the numbers right because what will it cost us? Nobody knows. It could cost us the season. I expect compensation for the damage that it could make to the Premier League title bid, financial compensation and the salaries. I haven't thought about the numbers yet because we have to sit down with the lawyers and the advisors of the Club to see what we can do. I don't know the rules well enough. But definitely we will go for compensation."

"The intellectualisation
of football has
always foundered
on a simple problem-
-the players. Doing
all your most
rewarding thinking
with your feet seems
to dull the philo-
sophical impulse.
Unless, of course,
you are Dutch.
According to legend,
Europeans played
a moronic, muscular
version of the world's
game, until Holland
proclaimed its vision
of total football in the
1974 World Cup,
and enlightenment
dawned."

From:
Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football