WALCOTT - which position is best etc?

[highburyJD]

Liverpool have outspent us and not even got to the CL
I think Rodgers is a decent manager and has them on the right track
but we're still structurally miles ahead of them

I can see Theo ending up there

[supergeorgegraham]

I agree with the Majority on this forum about nearly all Arsenal topics with a few exceptions. I think Kronke needs to go if we are to have any future and the Majority think Wenger.
Apart from that I now believe Theo is our best CF but most on here think he is useless.
During the West Ham game it was Theos introduction that turned the tide. I know Ox will improve but Walcotts finishing is getting better and better and now we will sell him.
I am so fed up with players I like leaving the club.
I now will have to watch the total shite that is Ramsey lose the ball run around like a headless chicken.

[supergeorgegraham]

[piresistible]

Not sure i buy into this media hype that Wallnut will not sin because he wants to be played in the correct position and be a regular starter....he was a regular last season when we offered the 75k deal and he declined and now the manager has publicly stated he wants theo to play up front ...seems like the ball is methodically in The Theo camp..does the little boy in him want more money?

[SteveO 35]

Liverpool have outspent us and not even got to the CL
I think Rodgers is a decent manager and has them on the right track
but we're still structurally miles ahead of them

I can see Theo ending up there

I think he will end up there - he was a fan of them as a boy and his old man supports them.

To be honest, this is one of the main reasons I can't get all giddy over qualifying for the CL. Yes, yes, the money and all that but Wenger dismisses the League Cup by using the argument "top players do not ask did you win the League Cup. They ask - are you in the CL". If that's the case then how comes it hasn't been enough to keep most of our top players at the club. The ultimate insult will be when someone like Walcott leaves us to play for a club that doesn't even qualify for it

[donaldo]

Makes you wonder why we didnt get shot in august and why Wenger did so much to talk him to stay.If he wasnt going to sign then why now? .We will probably lose £7m

I have never been a fan of Theo.The hype doesnt back up the reality.Is a player who gives you 5-6 good games a season worth £100k a week?Dont think so

Another cock up by Wenger and Gazidis letting a player go into his final year.If they dont want to sign with 2 years to go sell.How many players who have gone into there final year have stayed?None

Sagna next?

[SteveO 35]

How many players who have gone into there final year have stayed?None

Your still not over Almunia's contract failing to be extended aren't you mate?

Never mind, no doubt Flapper will be persuaded to sign on for another few years before his contract runs out

[MM99]

Liverpool have outspent us and not even got to the CL
I think Rodgers is a decent manager and has them on the right track
but we're still structurally miles ahead of them

I can see Theo ending up there

I think he will end up there - he was a fan of them as a boy and his old man supports them.

To be honest, this is one of the main reasons I can't get all giddy over qualifying for the CL. Yes, yes, the money and all that but Wenger dismisses the League Cup by using the argument "top players do not ask did you win the League Cup. They ask - are you in the CL". If that's the case then how comes it hasn't been enough to keep most of our top players at the club. The ultimate insult will be when someone like Walcott leaves us to play for a club that doesn't even qualify for it

That's because the players who left us wanted to win the league. It's not like they left us to win the carling cup. And in all fairness Wenger did say that the top priority is the league then the CL, then CL qualification. Also, i'm pretty sure that the statement was said with regards to signing new players and what they look for in the club, i.e are you playing in the biggest club competition rather than when was the last time you won the Capital One Cup.

If you look at Cazorla's first interview given in England he expressly mentions the fact that to him Arsenal qualifying for the CL 15 years in a row was a big factor in his move. Arteta also said that he wanted to experience CL football before his career was up. No doubt Podolski would have been attracted by that too.

As much as we all want trophies to be the priority, you've got to be realistic and realise that the CL is now more important to the players than the COC.

[franksav63]

Hmmm... it goes to show how far we've fallen when our fans are begging for this useless, greedy wanker to stay. Surely 7 years of nearly total shittyness must have convinced the majority that he's always going to be a flash in a pan player, can't cross or control a ball properly, he should have been sold years ago!

[donaldo]

Walcott has scored 6 goals this season.5 of those in the Micky Mouse cup(Coventry and Reading) and the 6th goal v Southampton.Gervinho has 6 goals as well .Would anyone think that pile of shite was worth £100k a week?.C'mon he has had 7 years at the club and he is still not a regular starter.Havent we learned the lesson of handing out massive contracts to players which just havent delivered.I talking about you Bendtner Diaby and Rosicky.Liverpool will be perfect for Walcott. Hoof

[QuartzGooner]

So who else is scoring for us?

Walcott scoring 5 out of his 6 goals this season in the League Cup tells us only so much; yes it is a lower standard of opposition than most games but Walcott has not been selected to play much league or Champions League football this season, and as the old Boxing adage goes "You can only beat what's put in front of you."

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

For me it is about whether we will replace theo, and if we do with who?

I have read somewhere that l'pool will offer 8 million for him and that is a bargain if true, I am as frustrated with theo as a player as the next man but the little fucker is a decent finisher and if played up front in the right team could bag 20 goals a season.

Now saying that, we ourselves are not blessed with goal scorers so if we sell and don't buy, or buy another "prospect" then we will be worse off.

100,000 a week for 4 years is just under 21 million, if we only keep him for two more years and then sell him on we could easily get 25 million for him (our outlay then being about 10 million), if in those two years he progresses very well and bags a few goals we could even get 35 million (going by the andy caroll rule of thumb ) for him or keep him if he does indeed turn out to be an acclompished forward.

I just think selling him now would be a huge mistake UNLESS we replace him with PROVEN quality.....

We also need a PROVEN goalkeeper, left back, right winger (if theo goes), forward and DM.....not much then

[highburyJD]

Not allowing a player to go in to final year, effectively means new contracts every other year.
Don't think I agree with that as a blanket policy.
Yes for the best of the best.
Theo isn't that.

[flash gunner]

Give him a contract and play him down the middle....... There done

[LeftfootlegendGooner]

Not allowing a player to go in to final year, effectively means new contracts every other year.
Don't think I agree with that as a blanket policy.
Yes for the best of the best.
Theo isn't that.

splitting hairs there, so a 5 year contract.....