WALCOTT - which position is best etc?

[Red Member]

It makes me wonder if it is a deliberate club policy to let the contracts run down then if players don't sign the club can state "their hands were tied".
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of course it is.
what bothers me now is that Wenger appears to be fully involved in the cover ups as much as anyone else.
but basically Kroenke is asset stripping the club. He remains the main person to blame

So who was asset stripping before Kroenke bought the club out?

no one was - we were a competitive football club until the spring of 2011.
we appeared to be last season because of RVP's goals but the true enormity of the problems at the club will only hit home this season.

[Top Londoner]

I remember Wenker saying he would eventually move Walcott into the middle - as an attacking forward.....he has not kept his promise...whenever Walcott has been in that position/area of the play he has done good.....I think he will leave...but hope not....He has been greatly affected and dismayed at the departure of rvp......I honestly think - as much as he can prove frustrating he will improve in his consistency and ability if given the chance to come in off the flank/s.

it's wenker's fault this situation has been allowed to arise.

We are shipping out the dross, so why not this greedy grabbing git.
Six years of crap. Nearly always flattering to deceive and falling over his feet, the ball or the opposition. Some flashes of hope but not enough for us to keep him as we give him a huge payrise.
imo he is no better than Gervinho, wherever he might be played.
Get rid, now.

[Babatunde]

What about going for Alan Dzagoev? Or are we done with Russians now? Just a thought.

Like Dembele, we can wait for the Spuds to sign him (though we have far more cash than them) and Arsene can then tell us all he 'didn't have room' to fithim in because of all that super-quality in our midfield (Gervinho, Ramsey and Diaby WOW)

[donaldo]

6 years of shite.As with the sale of Song he will not be missed.Sell Sell Sell

[Red Member]

6 years of shite.As with the sale of Song he will not be missed.Sell Sell Sell

the last 6 years have been the glory years compared to what is now coming.

[flash gunner]

I voted to keep him. We need numbers if we lose Theo and he is replaced then id be happy for him to go but we all know the money wont be spent so its one less player in this thin mediocre squad

[northbank123]

Theo has been offered a contract, a good one, and he doesn't Want as he believes he is worth 100k a week! What has he ever done to deserve that? Players greed is the reason why we lose most of these players. Or should we just bend over and pay them all whatever they want?

This is the crux of it. I hardly think we've handled our sales policy well over the last few years and even in this case we should have sorted it earlier in the window but fundamentally does anybody actually think the greedy bastard is worth £100k/w?

[OneBardGooner]

I can't wait to see what franksav says when he see's this thread!

[Top Londoner]

6 years of shite.As with the sale of Song he will not be missed.Sell Sell Sell

the last 6 years have been the glory years compared to what is now coming.

Feo featured prominently in those glorious years too, didn't he?

[Babatunde]

It makes me wonder if it is a deliberate club policy to let the contracts run down then if players don't sign the club can state "their hands were tied".
Not bothered about Theo going (if he does) he has flattered to deceive for absolutely years now. No doubt he will be great against us as we will give him loads if space to gallop into.

A man who gets it!

Once (Edu) is amn accident.
Twice (Flamini) is bordering on stupidity.

But let's look at Samir Nasri, Robin Van Persie, Theo Walcott, Clichy, etc...

You telling me the club had no idea their contracts were up? Serious?
It's far easier to let these contracts run down, and the claim 'We made a great offer, player wants more money, what a mercenary, we were left with no choice to sell'

What's even more ridiculous than that is the amount of gormless fans who swallow it hook, line, sinker.
You cannot tell me that even clubs like Villa, Everton, Spuds, Newcastleetc know the value of tying players down to contracts when they're near on expiry?

What did the Spuds just do with Bale? What did they do with Modric? Extended both asap.

Arsenal is different because we don't want o give them extended contracts because that means paying out bigger wages, which Kroenke doesn't want and which Wenger is opposed to unless it's bigger wages for one his French-speaking pussies l[ike Diaby or Djourou or Song.

It's clearly a deliberate ploy, just as it was delibrate when Wenger lied to the fans about Vermaelen being fit to return last year - only to inform us a day after the Jnauary window shut that 'I knew he would be out for the season'...just as he lied about Wilshere returning last year, only to tell us he wouldn't be once the window shut.

And he is back on the Wilshere lie again. No way is Wilshere coming back before the end of 2012, forget it.

[flash gunner]

It makes me wonder if it is a deliberate club policy to let the contracts run down then if players don't sign the club can state "their hands were tied".
.

of course it is.
what bothers me now is that Wenger appears to be fully involved in the cover ups as much as anyone else.
but basically Kroenke is asset stripping the club. He remains the main person to blame

So who was asset stripping before Kroenke bought the club out?

no one was - we were a competitive football club until the spring of 2011.

Copyrighted by LDB maybe but fuck off!!!!

[northbank123]

I can't really advocate selling a decent player if we don't replace him, however if we'll actually splash the cash then yes, go ahead and sell him.

Him being dismayed at RvP leaving/the general situation is absolute bollocks. Walcott himself said he was leaving the negotiations completely to his representatives while he went away, proving that all he cares about is money. If we throw stupid money at him then that'll be it and he'll sign a deal.

[arsenalmorris]

I remember Wenker saying he would eventually move Walcott into the middle - as an attacking forward.....he has not kept his promise...whenever Walcott has been in that position/area of the play he has done good.....I think he will leave...but hope not....He has been greatly affected and dismayed at the departure of rvp......I honestly think - as much as he can prove frustrating he will improve in his consistency and ability if given the chance to come in off the flank/s.

it's wenker's fault this situation has been allowed to arise.

We are shipping out the dross, so why not this greedy grabbing git.
Six years of crap. Nearly always flattering to deceive and falling over his feet, the ball or the opposition. Some flashes of hope but not enough for us to keep him as we give him a huge payrise.
imo he is no better than Gervinho, wherever he might be played.
Get rid, now.

This is 100% correct, Sell the winger who cant cross, take a man on and want a payrise for it

[rodders999]

Get rid. On a good day he can be decent, a real threat. Sadly those days are extremely few and far between. He's more likely to have a bad day where is absolute toilet, can't trap a ball, mis-placing a simple 5 yard pass by 10 yards and totally ineffective against a defensive side set up to park the bus.

Unlike others who have been flogged before him, he would be a very easy player to replace.

[Red Member]

Get rid. On a good day he can be decent, a real threat. Sadly those days are extremely few and far between. He's more likely to have a bad day where is absolute toilet, can't trap a ball, mis-placing a simple 5 yard pass by 10 yards and totally ineffective against a defensive side set up to park the bus.

Unlike others who have been flogged before him, he would be a very easy player to replace.

we saw on Sunday who is replacing him - Gervinho.

say what you want about Walcott but no way is the forehead better than him