WALCOTT - which position is best etc?

[casgooner]

The stats speak for themselves. In ten years at the club, he's scored 53 league goals (an average of 4.8 a season, including this eleventh season).

If this were Chamakh, Gervinho or Bendtner with this stat, they'd be rightly crucified - yet Walcott seems to get away with it, for some reason. How on earth can anyone think he's value for money? He's scored 13 league goals in the past three seasons FFS!

Giving him the armband was a complete joke too. It's not charity to be handed out based on sentimentality, and I can't think of any player in the club's history less of a leader than Walcott. I can't wait for the day this passionless fraud fucks off out of our club.

As my friend rightly pointed out in a text convo, if he were really any good, he'd have been snapped up long ago. Anybody ever notice how no clubs ever come in for him during transfer windows?

Nor did they when he was stalling signing a contract when his current one had less than a year at the same time as judas'

[Tommy_Goon]

He'd be a much better player if there was no offside rule.

[DB10GOONER]

He'd be a much better player if there was no offside rule.

And no football on the pitch. Oh, hang on, that's just running.

[arseofacrow]

His best position would be round Ray C's place.

[donaldo71]

The stats speak for themselves. In ten years at the club, he's scored 53 league goals (an average of 4.8 a season, including this eleventh season).

If this were Chamakh, Gervinho or Bendtner with this stat, they'd be rightly crucified - yet Walcott seems to get away with it, for some reason. How on earth can anyone think he's value for money? He's scored 13 league goals in the past three seasons FFS!

Giving him the armband was a complete joke too. It's not charity to be handed out based on sentimentality, and I can't think of any player in the club's history less of a leader than Walcott. I can't wait for the day this passionless fraud fucks off out of our club.

As my friend rightly pointed out in a text convo, if he were really any good, he'd have been snapped up long ago. Anybody ever notice how no clubs ever come in for him during transfer windows?

Nor did they when he was stalling signing a contract when his current one had less than a year at the same time as judas'

No club came in for him so we gave him a new contract worth £140k a week.The same as a world class player like Sanchez

[mcdowell42]

Was just having a look at the afc forum,and someone has actually started a thread in appreciation of Theo's 10 yrs at the club.

[northbank123]

Very salient point that we hardly faced a fight from another club to keep him on our books. He fucking shafted us with no leverage.

[Blade]

In the entire decade of his Arsenal career, one successful run albeit full 80 meters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-5j2k6yTyo

[DB10GOONER]

Very salient point that we hardly faced a fight from another club to keep him on our books. He fucking shafted us with no leverage.

Mental. Do we pull in millions on "Theo" jerseys out in Japan or Malaysia or something?

[GoonerMuzz]

Do you think one of the reasons AW keeps players like Theo around, other than them possibly being sycophants, is that if he sold them and they actually produced for another club it would bring his coaching abilities into question

Nah, who am i kidding they'd only be successful at another club because of his years of coaching

[StuartL]

Do you think one of the reasons AW keeps players like Theo around, other than them possibly being sycophants, is that if he sold them and they actually produced for another club it would bring his coaching abilities into question

Nah, who am i kidding they'd only be successful at another club because of his years of coaching

No, its because there is nobody out there better in the whole of the footballing world - don't you pay attention ?

[Ray C]

His best position would be round Ray C's place.

I don't mind as long as it's his pay week!

[Ray C]

In the entire decade of his Arsenal career, one successful run albeit full 80 meters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-5j2k6yTyo

Your forgetting he did get a shot on target earlier in the year - & I think the keeper missed it.

[Ray C]

I am a Walcott fan more than most on here but he has been in a poor run of form since the Man City game.

Physically he looks lacking a bit of sharpness.

I do not go along with the view he avoids getting involved.

I think the return of Ozil and Sanchez will help him get back some form.

I'm the other way around. I have thought he's been carried for the past few years & have been slagged off by many for my views. Now I don't feel so alone about it. One thing in his defence that I can relate to, having been injured many times as a player also, (centuries ago!), It gets harder every time you come back from injury, especially the tackling /being tackled bit !!. I wish him luck in his athletics career where no one kicks you.

[glenngould]

Walcott's tragedy is that he has come to personify everything wrong with Emirates era Arsenal. Lots of potential - for which he has been handsomely rewarded, - a marketable personality off the pitch, and very little else. He never tries ANYTHING unusual in games, he doesn't win the ball (see Sanchez for that increasingly rare Arsenal skill) he can't head, he can't use his left foot, he can't take free-kicks, his finishing is at best unpredictable. Etc etc. Even his good goals have had a bizarre element of comedy about them (I'm thinking Chelsea away when he fell over...Villareal at home when he dinked it miles up into the air...Spurs in the 5-2 when he bamboozled a defender because of his miscontrol...) From about 2007-2011 he hid in most games, not showing for Sagna at all and never doing anything defensively (because he's physically unable to.) And yet he's been there 10 years. Mind you, Johann Djorou was once Arsenal's longest serving player, so as usual it all comes down to the manager and his lack of ruthlessness. Same old same old til Wenger leaves, sadly. Walcott personifies the wasted years.