As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
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."
So we give hime a 5 year contract worth £20m plus on the back of 2 cup games against a poor premiership team and a 1st division side.
If we used that logic Vela and Bendtner would be playing for us
Can we please please please stop all this bullshit about playing this clown down the middle ? It would be impossible to play him as the lone striker in our 4-5-1 as he isnt physical enough nor has he got the skill and touch to hold up the ball and bring others into the game. I hate the formation we play as much as anyone but the simple fact is that it is a system that we are stuck with until we get shot of the c**t over the team so whether wally would work in a 4-4-2 is irrelevent really and tbh with you even if we switched to a 4-4-2 there would still be players that I would have ahead of him in the team.
I love the suggestion that we should give the fool a 4 year contract worth over 20m and if it doesnt work out that we could sell him in 2 years time for 20m+ - firstly if it doesnt work out then what fool would spend 20m buying him (daglish is retired now ) but secondly, as we have already discovered, there are no clubs out there who are willing and able to pay our offcasts the type of salary that they are on with us so we would be stuck with him for the remainder of his contract thus draining more resources from the club
LeftfootlegendGooner wrote:For me it is about whether we will replace theo, and if we do with who?
And I think that's one of the reasons why I want him to stay, because I genuinely believe that everytime we replace a striker we downgrade a notch or two.
To think we used to have Wiltord and Kanu as back-up strikers. Jose Reyes was in and out of the starting XI when he was here.
Now we have a bloke who had 1 decent season for Bordeaux, looked OK when Wenger played him....got dropped and then went to sleep for a year. Another bloke with a modest record before 1 good season at Montpellier, a 'not even good enough winger' pretending to be a striker in the Forehead and the potential of Walcott to play there. That's how much its deteriorated and I admit we are becoming desperate. Last season we had one of the finest strikers in world football. This season we haven't got a striker that would make the bench at any of the top 10 clubs in Europe, with the possible exception of Walcott who has the raw ingredient of pace and who is now finally looking like he's added the finishing ability. I don't give a shit what anyone says about the Mickey Mouse cup, name me another striker currently on our books that could have taken Arshavin's pass for that 1st goal at Reading, beat the defenders for pace and finished it like that. Gervinho would have been offside before he had the chance and if by some miracle the linesman missed it would have either over-ran it or scuffed his shot (the one he spurned at City when Ramsey put him through in similar fashion was fucking embarrasing).
So let Walcott go for something around £8m in January and you think this board and management team will sign someone to improve the squad. Not a chance. I'll tell you exactly what would happen.......we'd be told once again how promising Gnabry is and start the whole fucking development cycle all over again just like we did with Walcott in 2006
LeftfootlegendGooner wrote:For me it is about whether we will replace theo, and if we do with who?
And I think that's one of the reasons why I want him to stay, because I genuinely believe that everytime we replace a striker we downgrade a notch or two.
To think we used to have Wiltord and Kanu as back-up strikers. Jose Reyes was in and out of the starting XI when he was here.
Now we have a bloke who had 1 decent season for Bordeaux, looked OK when Wenger played him....got dropped and then went to sleep for a year. Another bloke with a modest record before 1 good season at Montpellier, a 'not even good enough winger' pretending to be a striker in the Forehead and the potential of Walcott to play there. That's how much its deteriorated and I admit we are becoming desperate. Last season we had one of the finest strikers in world football. This season we haven't got a striker that would make the bench at any of the top 10 clubs in Europe, with the possible exception of Walcott who has the raw ingredient of pace and who is now finally looking like he's added the finishing ability. I don't give a shit what anyone says about the Mickey Mouse cup, name me another striker currently on our books that could have taken Arshavin's pass for that 1st goal at Reading, beat the defenders for pace and finished it like that. Gervinho would have been offside before he had the chance and if by some miracle the linesman missed it would have either over-ran it or scuffed his shot (the one he spurned at City when Ramsey put him through in similar fashion was fucking embarrasing).
So let Walcott go for something around £8m in January and you think this board and management team will sign someone to improve the squad. Not a chance. I'll tell you exactly what would happen.......we'd be told once again how promising Gnabry is and start the whole fucking development cycle all over again just like we did with Walcott in 2006
This,we all know if he goes the board will just trouser the cash to spend on port and cigars
I think he will be sold to the Victims in January, I think he will be played by them in his preferred position in the middle and will be a great success. I don't think for one minute that we will even try to replace him, that money will go straight in the bank and stay there until Stand decides he needs another holiday.
Have frequently said that I would sell him - I accept that he could well prosper elsewhere but playing here in this system and under this manager he will never cut the mustard. Saying that if wenger really wanted to keep him then he would have started him today so either wenger now accepts that he aint good enough for us or he believes that they will not be able to agree on the money side of a new deal so he keeps him on the fringes
augie wrote:Have frequently said that I would sell him - I accept that he could well prosper elsewhere but playing here in this system and under this manager he will never cut the mustard. Saying that if wenger really wanted to keep him then he would have started him today so either wenger now accepts that he aint good enough for us or he believes that they will not be able to agree on the money side of a new deal so he keeps him on the fringes
Feo is not good enough augie, not good enough.
Feo out, Zaha in Jan maybe?
augie wrote:Have frequently said that I would sell him - I accept that he could well prosper elsewhere but playing here in this system and under this manager he will never cut the mustard. Saying that if wenger really wanted to keep him then he would have started him today so either wenger now accepts that he aint good enough for us or he believes that they will not be able to agree on the money side of a new deal so he keeps him on the fringes
Feo is not good enough augie, not good enough.
Feo out, Zaha in Jan maybe?
) but secondly, as we have already discovered, there are no clubs out there who are willing and able to pay our offcasts the type of salary that they are on with us so we would be stuck with him for the remainder of his contract thus draining more resources from the club 
