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QuartzGooner wrote:OneBardGooner's Survey
"Should Arsenal Pay Walcott What He Wants?"
Yes - 42%
Only if he improves - 26%
Never - 13%
Sell now - 19%
Hardly conclusive is it ? I mean he has less than 50% support amongst those that voted which surprises me tbh In fact the more you look at it the more it slants against Wally as things currently stand
QuartzGooner wrote:OneBardGooner's Survey
"Should Arsenal Pay Walcott What He Wants?"
Yes - 42%
Only if he improves - 26%
Never - 13%
Sell now - 19%
Hardly conclusive is it ? I mean he has less than 50% support amongst those that voted which surprises me tbh In fact the more you look at it the more it slants against Wally as things currently stand
That surprises me as well.
58%, for differing reasons, say NO we shouldn't pay Theo what he wants.
I thought he'd have more support on here, to be honest. Personally, I think £90k (as seems to be reported) isn't too bad really. I'd say it's at the top end of acceptable.
I'll be glad to get him tied down to a new contract, as (1) I think he'll carry on improving, and (2) I'm sick to death of this ridiculous saga
It is funny that those who were saying there weren't three negative options and one positive one are now changing their minds and adding the three negative ones together.
Option 2 on the poll was a nonsense. He is the last 6 months of his contract and so on what planet does it apply??
QuartzGooner wrote:OneBardGooner's Survey
"Should Arsenal Pay Walcott What He Wants?"
Yes - 42%
Only if he improves - 26%
Never - 13%
Sell now - 19%
Hardly conclusive is it ? I mean he has less than 50% support amongst those that voted which surprises me tbh In fact the more you look at it the more it slants against Wally as things currently stand
That surprises me as well.
58%, for differing reasons, say NO we shouldn't pay Theo what he wants.
I thought he'd have more support on here, to be honest. Personally, I think £90k (as seems to be reported) isn't too bad really. I'd say it's at the top end of acceptable.
I'll be glad to get him tied down to a new contract, as (1) I think he'll carry on improving, and (2) I'm sick to death of this ridiculous saga
Unless wally compromises then he wont agree to 90k cos he is looking for 100k which is excessive imo
Sell the twat. Who does he think he is holding the club to ransom? Half a good season and he's acting like he's the dogs bollocks. It's a disgrace his name even gets mentioned in the same sentence as TH14.
MM99 wrote:Sell the twat. Who does he think he is holding the club to ransom? Half a good season and he's acting like he's the dogs bollocks. It's a disgrace his name even gets mentioned in the same sentence as TH14.
Yep sell him like all of our good players just bloody sell them all. We dont need the good players here sell sell sell
Don't mind that tbh. Theo is going to become our highest paid player and so he needs to deliver consistently straight away or I for one am going to be on his back like a shot, having a short contract could turn out to be a good thing.
I just don't get the righteous indignation towards Theo asking for 90-100k. He's not holding the club to ransom he is asking for the going rate. Why are we outraged at 90k per week when the challenging clubs are paying 200-250k. How small have we become and why does it bother us? What do you guys want to save the 15k per week for? Bonus for the manager?
Wenger defended his socialist experiment this week and that re-enforces the notion that he is incapable of learning from mistakes and can only do more damage to this club. I am sure part of the inertia of agreeing to 90k for Theo is that it distances Walcott from several players in the squad. This socialism has no place in football. The industry has been run as meritocracy for generations but we have a fool from France who dismisses how footballers are rewarded elsewhere and refuses to see the harm of paying fringe squad players 60k per week. Not only does this policy render us incapable of competing for 100-150k per week salaries it also demotivates the squad and makes players like B52, Squid, Denilson, Diaby, Chamakh and others impossible to move on. This socialist policy has singlehandedly done more harm to Arsenal's chances of competing than anything else. For Wenger to defend it this week was incredibly frustrating. He isn't a self-harmer, he is in his personal heaven and this is his playground. It is Arsenal he is harming.
Theo's position is strengthened by Gazidis' negligence in allowing contracts to run down. I blame Gazidis and Wenger for this not Walcott. One poster on this thread said it is Law and not Gazidis who negotiates contracts but it is the latter who is reported as an ever present in negotiations. If Fox handles commercial and Law player contracts then the banner asking what the f**k Gazidis does seems valid.
BTW im 6ft3 and a slim 15 stone 
In fact the more you look at it the more it slants against Wally as things currently stand
