Theo Walcott scored his tenth goal in 11 games last night despite not being fully fit. His record this season is no mean feat for any striker (let alone a winger) and given he’s available to sign a pre-contract agreement with other clubs in January it’s a pretty big boost to his chances of securing the kind of money he thinks he’s worth.
While he’s still an Arsenal player it’s great to see him delivering the goods, but you can’t help but feel he’s really driven by the fact he’s in the shop window.
Sounding like a page out of Michael Owen’s infamous ‘buy-me-I’m-ace’ dossier crossed with a late night QVC infomercial, he’s taken to analysing his game with all the modesty of a Nicklas Bendtner.
“Those are the sort of positions that this season and in the last few seasons I have been quite deadly in,” he told Arsenal.com after opening the scoring against Everton.
“When given a little sniff I am able to take it now. The goals show that.
“I think I scored 11 last season and 13 the year before. Not just that, but my general play as well. The assists are coming now, which is fantastic, and I am enjoying my football.
“I am very happy with the way I have started and it has got to continue. Hopefully I will take it into Saturday’s game.”
He might well have added, “I’m available on a free transfer in January and if you pay me the £100,000 a week I want I’ll even throw in a winning smile. And some steak knives.”
Yeah, yeah, yeah…we know we sound bitter, but with only a month left to sign a new deal Arseblog News is quickly losing any hope that Walcott will extend his time at the Emirates. Naturally, while he’s at the club wearing the canon on his chest he has our backing, but you know…we’re fragile.
“When given a little sniff i am able to take it now” …he needs to lay off the coke
Ciao Theo. Pity you’ve only been great this season. Following in the footsteps of Robin and Samir.
Brainless?! Why @AAllenSport is thinking instead of you?
Maybe it is not Walcott to blame?
I am getting that Deja Vu feeling whereby very shortly TW will be joining recent AFC players who will be called a money grabbing female orifice
“Great” is a stretch.
He performances stink of ‘shop window’ playing
There is an element of truth to this. Of course if Gervinho had played him in in the 92nd minute he might have scored two. Sadly, the team seems flat without his threat.
Sad that I have to say but Theo is a whore in an Amsterdam window right now.
I’d wager we only have a 10% chance of re-signing him.
So he wasn’t the 2nd leading goal scorer for us last season then and also the person with the most assists? You know what, half the time I don’t blame our players for wanting to leave. With – relatively speaking – derisory salary increases offered oblivious to the going rate and “fans” like some I see on the boards it’s not hard to believe players leave. Theo’s developed, albeit not as quick as some would hope, over the past few seasons and now he’s performing he’s selling himself?! Only a short time ago you were all saying, “Oh Theo, shit… Read more »
This article sounds like the build up to another “he’s a cunt” diatribe that goes on whenever any paper leaves Arsenal. Will he be a “greedy bastard” or have too many “ridiculous demands” that we are assured these players always make but never hear what they actually are. Is his agent greedy? or is the nefarious Darren Dein involved? Any reason never to blame the club.
i think it’s pretty fucking obvious that arsenal don’t believe theo is worth £100K a week Fabregas and Henry got big pay deals, but they’re once-in-a-generation talent. Bergkamp missed the gravy train a little and by the time he could have fucked off for a last payday elsewhere, for whatever reason he decided to see out his career at arsenal and *fuck my old boots* take a paycut to do so. We rightly lionise him for this amongst other things you might debate the rights and wrongs of how arsenal value a player re: their contract, but “blame” is a… Read more »
When I say “blame ” you are taking that pejoratively. All I’m saying is that maybe the way Arsenal value the wages they their players is wrong and should be questioned instead of the usual kneejerk “they are all cunts” nonsense?
heh fair enough the problem with that is the corollary to the “we undervalue our players, waaahhh” whinge is the “bendtner, denilson, chamakh, diaby, £50K a week waaahhhh” whinge that tends to come from the *very same keyboards* and drive us all batshit mad personally i think the club called it right with TH14 and Cesc, wrong with RvP and that we’re about right with Theo although the scary thing is the form he’s showing right now – is that Theo coming good for ever, or is it Theo playing for his big payday move? If it’s the latter the… Read more »
We pay them as much as we can afford to, in proportion to everybody else at the club. They’d get more if we were able to move some of the detritus on but they’d also get more if they pulled their fingers out. I’m afraid the facts are we simply can’t just give them more money, I don’t like it and we need to make better use of the money we have but when someone puts their bank accounts above Arsenal and are two-faced enough to insist it’s not at all about money, they’re going to get abuse, and rightly… Read more »
Well said sir!
If Theo leaves, I’ll never call him a cunt, greedy or any other names.
The club has no one to blame but themselves, give him what he wants for fucks sake, it makes more sense than letting him leave on a free.
Can you give me any reason why Walcott can demand more than any other player at Arsenal? He has had a good 10 games, well done to him. Last year he had a decent return, but I still think for the position he plays in and the fact that it was with RVP banging them in for fun, that’s no reason to eulogise him. For the other 6 seasons he was crap. He has pace, he is charming and English, so fans love him. He is utterly inconsistent (until this year when he’s surprise surprise playing for a move), his… Read more »
I thought Pod was the highest paid player at the club, around 110k pw, and therefore still would be if Theo gets 100k pw.
Agreed. Who cares if he wants more money? I feel he’s earned it based on his performances. He’s done his part, time for the club to do theirs and get this shit sorted out. Why is it that every other top club can sort these situations out, while we continue to fuck them up year after year?
only three clubs pay better than Arsenal in the EPL , Chelsea-Abramovich.Man City-Arab Money , Man United -Asia .
Plus we are actually fucking them up , If I was paid 50K a week to do something I love ,I’d let them actually fuck me
Feo is playing for the money
uler why don’t you ever say anything nice about the club you support or the blog you read?
Mate. We cant cave to any hit or miss player with a sudden good streak and comparatively sky high wage to other players and just give give give. Didnt Chamakh have a good streak when he joined. If he suddenly asked for more would you be happy to habd it over? And how would you feel now, seeing his contributions and long term level of play? Let’s get to the gritty: Arsenal are in debt. Say what you will about competing, but it is what it is. If you’re down in money are you happy to spend spend spend? Would… Read more »
Well said mate, the subjectivity shown by a certain writers for this sight is ridiculous. Due to our out of touch management from Wenger upwards we’ll likely lose arguably our best player (this sounds vaguely familiar doesn’t it?) in January and yes he’ll be a cunt, a money grabber, a this or a that. It’s sad and for me it’s why I frequent this site less and less. It’s not just the above either. Regardless of what Theo does he’s either shit, lucky or every now and again he’ll be given begrudging credit. Whereas the likes of Ramsey who has… Read more »
im actually more worried about his form dropping after signing the contract than him leaving
ha! yes. or his shoulder popping out of its socket again a week after he signs; he has benefited tremendously from not playing 90 minutes, week in week out… if he could adopt the mentality of Ole Gunnar Solskjær and enjoy spending 60% of a match on the bench for most of a career, he could become a really important player for Arsenal (and I don’t mean that sarcastically)…
Walcott is playing well but it’s only when Sagna is around.
Like in the Reading match? Which is where he got the goals and assists that’s making his tally look that bit more impressive.
Oh wait, that was Jenkinson.
Gotta love the Carling Cola Milk Cup. Pressure’s off. Easier to play exciting football and score goals. Perfect situation for Walcott to notch a few goals. Come January Sales they just ask “How many?” not “Which games?”
You don’t mean to say that players look good when they’re in a good team do you?!
“Those are the sort of positions that this season and in the last few seasons I have been quite deadly in. When given a little sniff I am able to take it now.”
He’s talking about pussy.
* Lose the ‘Emirates’ please.
Theo can only sign a pre-contract in January with an overseas club, not an English one.
He can sign a pre-contract with an English club 1 month before the expiration of his Arsenal contract.
Source: http://www.thedugout.net/content/articles/item,16,9,1,Bosman_deals:_UK_specific_laws.html
Which means that January will be a non-event, and we will find out next summer if his childhood dream of being a legend for Liverpool will win over his more recent urge to be an Arsenal legend.
yup…theo definitely sounded like my 5 yr old nephew who just found out he could ride cycle better then his sister….lol
If you believe him he suddenly got much better over the past 6 seasons. Not just the last 10 appearances, but retroactively better over his entire career with us. All those times we thought he was inconsistent it actually turns out he was deadly. How could we have been so mistaken?
Walcott’s cockiness at the moment know no bounds . Arsenal are now in a very difficult position having stated publicly that their new commercial deals will mean they can now keep their better players. We’ll soon find out whether they consider Walcott one of our “better players”.
the apparent tabling of a £75K a week contract when the club knows there will be bigger offers from elsewhere would suggest that the answer to the question “Do Arsenal consider Theo Walcott one of our better players?” is “Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain”
YOU GUYS WILL NOT GIVE THE POOR LAD A BREAK!!!!!!!! you guys are why we have that you don’t know what you’ve got till its gone syndrome. Leading goal scorer, model proffessional and he wants to be at arsenal. no one should doubt! that he just wants a far crack of the whip up front, personally think he desreves it. Think if wenger had the nerve to do it in the first place where would he be right now??? No matter what anyone says the lad is not only on fire right now, he has been nothing short of professional… Read more »
Has the businessman Kroenke told us it is not about the money? The fact is any profit made is a surplus left unclaimed by these players, so why earn a lower wage when whatever is left goes into building Mr Kroenke’s assets. The game is business and the sooner we understand this, the better.
That would be about a year after the Bosman ruling mate. That’s when we started to get the feeling our heroes did it all for cash rather than love of the badge. That’s when we realised they were all old pros at heart. Football was much nicer for the fans when players cried when their mean managers told them they had been sold to some hairy old geezer from up north. Those were the good old days. Your players loved the badge and all you had to worry about was being beaten to death outside the ground if you got… Read more »
I’ll be gutted if theo goes… we need him!
All this makes me fucking laugh. All the slagging off has started already. Do people still not get it. It’s happening to far to
Many of our top players for them all to be cunts blah blah blah. Absolute fucking disgrace some people on here. What if jack is then sold, another cunt in the making ?
You have to understand that there are bunch of kids on this forum driven by the mood of Arseblog news. So I think Arseblog news have to stop slamming players which are leaving cos The Board is saving money for… sometimes in bloody Future when they won’t drag every single player to the point when they leave for the first decent offer!
Walcott is worth 90.000 and Arsenal won’t give him that, so if I am Walcott I would leave also. Sagna too.
Stop telling all the young kids on here that Arsenal are bad people. I know your sort. “Santa Clause is Dead”, and “they’ve eaten the Easter Bunny”. That’s your party-pooping level.
Frankly, yes.
Cunt is a little strong admittedly but when you claim to love the club and then turn around and say ‘actually, turns out I love money more’, you’re going to get abuse.
It’s more just a reaction to the hypocrisy and dishonesty around transfers these days, it’s not particularly right but transparent PR pisses me off a lot more than most things in football.
Kolo Toure, Gael Clichy, Cesc Fabregas – recent departures who’ve not been slated and who have shown the kind of respect/restraint you’d hope for in former players Adebayor, Nasri – the opposite Walcott will be in the first group when he goes so long as he’s nice about Arsenal when he’s at Liverpool or wherever he ends up. We all know that Toure and Clichy went for the £££ and nobody is stupid enough to think otherwise, but for fucks sakes, play the game and show a bit of respect once you’ve made the move. It’s not too much to… Read more »
Yes, we’ll all still respect him if he goes with dignity, or a decent sense of humour, at least.
[Arsene: Looking at Theo ] “Theo, it’s nearly May, we are in the FA Cup Final in a week’s time. Are you staying with us to become an Arsenal Legend?”
[ Theo: Looking towards desk ] “Computer says nooooo”
Completely agree, no wonder players leave with fans giving then shit non stop,’! Theo wants to play up front and not on the wing, he could be the next Henry given a fair chance! But we will probably lose him due you wengers bizarre need to play players out of position!
So we should just change our formation just to suit him??
Why not?
weedwacker
because that would throw the entire team’s balance off
Exactly. If we change to play him through the middle, we need someone of real quality to play wide right and we’ll probably have to buy to cover that. Alternatively we can just let him go and buy to cover that, saving 100 grand a week and the need to reengineer our play to accommodate him. That looks like a fairly simple choice to me. Theo’s problem here is that while he apparently feels awesome in front of goal, in order to command 100k and a change of formation he needs to actually *be* awesome in front of goal. That… Read more »
Wenger’s philosophy is to have his players capable of playing in more than one position. That means forwards can play anywhere across the front. Don’t you think Theo was told that when he was signed? That he would become a better all-round forward? I bet it was a selling point for him. A chance to emulate Thierry Henry. Now he acts like he has been tricked into playing on the wing. Just as an aside, George Armstrong joined Arsenal’s youth team in 1961. Initially he had been a forward but was soon switched to the wing. He made his debut… Read more »
wasn’t bendtner the next henry? 😉
Seriously don’t know how to feel about this.
the biggest issue I have with all of Theo’s statements are that they are all about him. NOT the team. I mean its great for him that he’s getting the goals and assists to pad his stats, but if the team doesn’t win, then it doesn’t amount to much.
He is very much a “Me” person and not a “we” person… We need the team players in this squad if we are going to have a chance
Far too slick of a PR man for my liking.
Feels like he has his team of advisers behind him at every opportunity, even when being interviewed post-match.
Arseblog really wants Theo Walcott to leave !
End of
You are right.
They will cry only for Ramsey… no they won’t… he wont leave 🙁
No, I don’t. And just for the record, I didn’t write this article. I think it would be good if Walcott stayed but the reality is that it would be a massive, massive surprise if he did. Like many of you I’ve seen this situation before, I take the ‘I really want to stay’ stuff with a very hefty pinch of salt because if he really wanted to stay he and his agents wouldn’t have walked away from talks with the club (more than once) which were started in the summer of 2011. Fair play to him, short career, he… Read more »
So you’re saying there’s a chance? 😉
haha
He definitely seems more confident and sure of himself. This has meant that a) he is better in front of goal and b) he has an inflated opinion of his ability.
How many times have we seen him in front of goal where a simple pass to an unmarked player would result in an almost* certain goal but he goes for glory instead (Schalke, Fulham etc.) – something thing that Henry, Pires, Bergkamp would never do.
At the moment it really seems like “me” first and the “team” second.
(*unless it was to Gervinho)
Bullshit. Pires Henry DB all had their own moments of going for goal just missing the target. Memory is so selective!
Has it occurred to the writer of the article that it might be the club who are in the wrong? Theo wants more money, so what, he deserves it in my opinion. £100K a week is pretty much the going rate for (a) a forward to scores 15 goals a season and creates as much (b) Is only young and still has time to develop into a real world beater Are we constantly going to arrive at this problem? Yes, if we don’t pay our best talent what the market says we should (City and Chelsea aside we should be… Read more »
I couldn’t agree more, why difference does it make to any of us how much Theo gets paid?!?
I couldn’t care less of he gets 30k or 300k a week as along as he gives his all for the Arsenal.
We already pay the most for tickets in all of Europe.
It’s tough enough watching RVP banging in the goals for Utd, if Theo joins him, I don’t think I’ll watch any football next season
Nobody force you to buy a season ticket…
Do you seriously think arsenal can´t make it without Theo Walcott? Yes he is a great player but he is not worthy a 100k/week contract, he don´t show the same passion for the club as other players in this squad does.. Sometimes he doesn´t even seems happy after scoring a goal.
I rather see average players that loves the club and gives 100% for arsenal than worldclass players that just plays for money and never gives 100% and doesn´t give a shit about the club, like the players in man shitty..
It has crossed the writer’s mind that he’s bored of a player saying it’s not about the money, when the only stumbling block (given the assurances of the boss that he will get to play striker) is money. I don’t personally believe that Walcott deserves a six-figure weekly pay-packet that would see him earn double what someone like Jack Wilshere earns and would make him the highest paid player at the club in the process. It’s also occurred to the writer that the manager doesn’t believe it’s worth it either…hence why we haven’t bent over and taken one from Theo’s… Read more »
The club wants to maximize returns, the player wants same. In other words it is business. Why should we then call him names for wanting more money? Oh he should come out openly and tell us the truth? Adebayor was blunt about it and that ruined him. On the other hand Fabregas- the most loved- came with the excuse of wanting to go back to his “boyhood club” and along side the bias blogs, that story was sold to the fans. Song was never given a fair chance probably because he was from “poor Africa” and he wanted more money.… Read more »
We will see what future holds for Walcott and Arsenal. But his is looking brighter at the moment. And still I think you went to far slaming Walcott.
Please prepare for Sagna… but for Sagna please do it with more style.
Tnx
Chimasacker, you spend most of your time attacking Arsenal bloggers and Arsenal fans as far as I can tell. You need to understand that unlike a player, a football club can go out of business if it makes poor business choices, such as giving in to every player’s wage demands without at least an attempt to limit expenses. If you want to see players paid what they want instead of what they deserve you are supporting (following? noticing in passing?) the wrong team. You may not realise it but as Theo Walcott has worked at Arsenal for 6 years they… Read more »
Thing is, if we give him 100k and he stays, and he doesn’t get better, or even keep up this wonderful new deadliness at the same rate, then we cannot later ask for our money back so that we can spend it on a new striker who will do the job for us consistently. Then you have to consider what we do when Theo is playing his old inconsistent way each week and we find that Wenger is picking the Ox ahead of him on a regular basis but is coming up for a new contract. How much is he… Read more »
Seriously. It’s blindingly obvious that in today’s climate you have to pay to keep players. We used to before being blown out if the water. FFS Arsenal, you just got a fat new sponsorship, do what all the other winning teams do and cough up. It’s nothing for a man of his worth, despite his tash.
Theo is probably not worth a 100k a week to many on the top clubs. But because of our crazy transfer policy of selling our best performers, theo is now worth that and more to us because we have fuck all options if he goes. He knows it his agent knows and now arsene and the fucking club know it. How many players have to leave before people on here stop and think that it might just not be down to all the players being greedy cunts. He is out top scorer and lasts seasons second and top assist maker.… Read more »
We need him more than he needs us so we must give him whatever he wants? OK. Now, when he underperforms next season and The Ox saves us we then need him more than he needs us, so we give him 100k plus a bit more because of inflation, plus another bit more because he is better than 100k a week Walcott. So the following season, when the Ox is feeling self-satisfied and doesn’t feel the need to work as hard what do we do then?
theo growed a moustache and started being cocky,,,,hmmmmm
what next??
I think it is cos of Movember – Prostate cancer awareness. You know? Fingers in the ass?! But now they can check it from blood sample too. Happy news, maybe not for all 🙂
Well yeah, blood tests, great. Bet you they don’t stop the finger in the ass thing.
Theo has managed himself well while he’s been with us. I don’t know whether he realizes it but all this time AW has actually been playing him where he should be. He’s probably only just matured and doesn’t know what hit him. Henry never really confined his game centrally, he utilised the spaces on the flanks to great effect and brought everyone else into it. If your gonna inherit the shirt,inherit the game as well…Elsewhere, IG!Just give him the 100K no? Ok Bye.
Everyone was saying how shit he was a couple months ago and now people are talking about him like hes a god. I personally feel that hes only playing so well because hes making sure he has clubs that will come for him. Lets say we offered him 100k a week I would be worried about him returning to type once that happens. Its quite funny how shot term football is 3 months of playing well suddenly hes valued at 100k. Now im not bashing walcott and long may his form continue though as people have said it seems about… Read more »
This is just the opposite side of the coin to “He plays shit. He always will. He’s never worth whatever we’re paying him” that we hear so often about so many of our players. He was certainly one of them until last year, and has only joined the other ‘team’ this season. Wenger is clever to limit his opportunities as he knows it will mean he tries harder every time he plays as his shop window is not open to view so often. I think it possible that Wenger has already worked out he is determined to go, and has… Read more »
Theo keeps banging in goals and providing assists but he is not good enough. But Theo keeps banging in goals and providing assists. I’m starting to see a pattern developing here. Theo banging in goals and providing assists.
He’s grown a ‘tache, all he needs now is a bubble perm and he’ll be ready for liverpool
What I don’t understand is that within a year £100K will easily be the norm for someone of Theo’s age and quality. Increased revenue from the Premier League, Champions’ League, and commercial contracts will see to that.
So, the only question is does Arsenal want to keep him or replace him with someone else?
How levelheaded and down to earth…gosh!!!
I really don’t know..
Well if the manager, the club and the writer don’t think Theo is worth £100K a week then we can’t they can’t have any complaints if he leaves. It’s not dangerous in the slightest to offer him £100K a week, just because City or Chelsea might offer him £150K a week, it’s a completely different pay bracket, and if that is dangerous, well then surely not matching what he is after is even more dangerous? How can we even think of keeping him if that is your train of thought? As I said before, it’s all too easy blaming players,… Read more »
the better he plays the more he will stay.
theo has seems to be a smart down to earth boy.
he wont leave a club where his playing great and really showing what his made of . he knows if he leaves to a city, or another team he is not guaranted to start.
and i dont see another team playing him as a center foward.
its just a case of the agent trying to get as much money out of the club as possible.
@ The king – There is a possibility he will have seen other players leave and think that next year we will lose another important player or two including him. Monkey see, monkey do and all that.
Usually I am full of optimism when it comes to my team but at the moment and with the continuing trend of losing players for varying reasons each season it is kind of hard to imagine it not happening.
It´s an uncomfortable truth that a gentleman only fantasizes about a girlfriend once she becomes an “ex”. Theo became an “ex” a few months ago when he would´ve put pen to paper if that was his real intention, and now the “fan”-tasizing is in full flow, every time he scores (i.e. pops round for a quick sympathy shag). Much like Nasri, who played out of this world for half a season before doing one, the similarities are marked. I remember the misguided souls saying how we could afford to lose Fabregas but not Nasri. How we pined! We all stopped… Read more »
His value to us now transcends his true worth, if that makes any sense. At some stage, the club has to make a stand and actually keep a top player on the books. And yes he drives us nuts, but there’s no disputing that, right now, he’s doing the business. Better players have left before him, and maybe we should have paid Cashley another £5k a week, which os where it all seemed to start, but this shit has to stop and it might as well stop now. And if not now, when? When Jack gets fucked off with it… Read more »
I will continue to read some of the articles on this site but damn am I tired of the defending of Aaron Ramsey and constant hes a cunt for leaving mentality. We aren’t paying enough plain and simple. I dont think Theo deserves 100k but hell 85 why not? This is on the board not the player.
You know i have gotten to that point where i dont really care anymore i cant keep on hating every player who leaves arsenal, i mean are they so different from the board, they say to the board can we win trophies the board says sorry but 4th is like a trophy that should be good enough for you, they ask how about you increasing our salary then, board says you know we cant do that we have to pay Ivan Gazidis loads of money and also pay wenger, and we also have to pay high wages for our none… Read more »
Bang on as usual Mooro.
Some people including aa are just missing the point. It’s all about Theo’s worth to us and not his market value
Last season we could have sold him and replaced him no problem because we had rvp. We now play a totally different style to last and we don’t have a player of rvp’s quality.
So Theo’s value to us is inflated because we have few other options. Can’t see how people just don’t get it or how this looks again to other players and the outside world, that again arsenal sell their top scorer.
Andrew Allen’s comment above is spot on. If we pay Walcott 100k a week, where will it end? Do you not think that this will set a precedent at the club causing many other players to start thinking they’re worth more than they’re currently on, and demanding more money? Just take a deep breath for a second and think. Is Theo Walcott currently (CURRENTLY) a 100k a week player? The best player at Arsenal? Is he fuck. I like the guy and I do genuinely hope he stays, but his mind is focused on the money now and not the… Read more »
Glenn, you make some really valid points well there mate. My question is the same as yours – where will it all end? But from the opposite perspective – where will it end if we DON’T pay Theo £100k a week. Now do I think he’s worth it at that level? No. But then again, if we pay him that, when the time comes, we should pay Jack more, we should pay the Ox more and we should pay Ryo more. You’re spot on – they are the future, but if we persist with our current model, they’ll sadly form… Read more »
Mooro forgive me if I’m wrong but I suspect you’re of a vintage to remember when we used to pay top wack and attract the best out there Woodcock Mariner and – heresey – Bonnie Prince Charlie, who let’s not forget turned down the champions to come to Highbury. We can’t pretend it’s because he was excited by Don Howe’s “project” can we, ffs? Cash, cash and more cash and the bright lights and the clubs, thanks v much. And it got us precisely nowhere – in fact it took GG to come in, kick out the rich layabouts and… Read more »
Yes mate. Of a certain age, shall we say. Take your point on splashing the cash not being a guarantee of success – only one team will win the league and only one team the Champions League, which means a lot of unhappy billionaire owners. I always had the impression Woodcock and Mariner were slightly past their best when we signed them (don’t know how old they were at the time), but that’s by the by. Unfortunately the game’s moved on in all sorts of ways, most notably financially (you think back then even Liverpool in their prime used to… Read more »
The Ox and Ryo could end up as mediocre players leaving on free or brilliant players being sold to more ambitious clubs.
We have a seeeeeerious problem with keeping our best/better players. I don’t know how to solve it, but it needs solving one way or another.
ryo isn’t getting a look in for wigan, so i’m not optimistic on that front
Fuck him. The only reason we’re mingeing over Theo is because our squad is so damnably thin. Just because we have shit scoring options doesn’t mean that he’s now worth 100K a week. But let me tell you. If we don’t do some serious business this summer (both in and out) I’m going back to following american football. And by serious business I don’t mean just $$$$. As much as I love the guys we have to unload the perma-benched and the perma-crocked chaps and get some ‘Benayouns’ in here. Guys that can put in a shift when needed and… Read more »
There is another reason for whingeing about Theo.he’s won us nothing, and he’ll leave for nothing. We have invested in his career, taken a £15M risk, and have gained nothing. Ok he scored a few goals,but nothing another player couldn’t have. I feel a bit ripped off to have invested faith and optimism and to have contributed a very small chunk of his wages too.
Ha ha ha ha ha, American football!!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha good luck with that!
If Arsenal had won this game, these quotes by Theo would’ve made sense. Right now he’s seemingly too far up his own ass. A more dedicated quote about Arsenal losing 2 points would’ve brought Theo in the good books but right now he is making himself look like a c**t I’m afraid.
Whole theo story is so boring. If he goes, he goes. How we handle it after he’s gone is the test. Funny thing is – I can’t even force myself to give a fuck about theo. Like I didnt care about Hleb or Clichy. It’s not about quality of their football mind you, it’s about balls. Freddie, Bobby, Thierry, Cesc, Robin (hated as he may be, he had at least four, we have to give it him) – they all had balls, something likes of Theo and Gervinho are short of, hence they (in my eyes) are just not cut… Read more »
you demand from a player that you dont care about. what a plastic fan. if you want theo to score goals, like him, adore him, love him.
Our players perform best on the second last year of their contracts, or when they’re about to reject a new contract. Which is why I don’t think Walcott will sign on.
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Those quotes make him sound like a right fucking prick. ‘I’m brilliant, if you look, you’ll see that i’m brilliant’. Not a word about his development at the club, thanks to the other players, the manager, the coaches. Fuck off. I’ll say it now because unless he’s preparing a nice “surprise! I’m staying after all!” surprise at the end of the season, he’s off for fuck all, after giving the club and the fans back nothing to show for his millions. So fuck off, Theo. I even named my cat after you.
Ha ha you made a mistake. Better would be Aaron. That one will stay forever I’m afraid… with transfer policy like this he’ll always have his spot in the team.
Nah, if Rambo gets good he will leave us for man united anyway.
Same as Theo going to Liverpool, he’s a ‘pool fan, isn’t he?
God i feel like a dumped teenager. Bring on the Ox, but first sign him up on an 8 year deal.
If we’re not gonna sign any new players, it makes sense to pay Walcott a little more to keep him. We’ve invested so much in him already and he’s producing quite regularly now.
The thing I find weird about Walcott’s contract situation is that he’s repeatedly said that it’s “down to his agents and the club.” Nobody else, at any team that I’m aware of, talks in those terms – as though his own values and interests are peripheral to the issue, and he’s just outsourced his judgment to a bunch of advisers. Very odd.
People can be sniffy little whiners about Walcott, but the simple fact is that he’s one of our more dangerous players, gets goals and assists as regular as anyone (bar RvP) over the past two years and Arsenal have left themselves in a joke position with him. Walcott’s in a strong position concerning his next move, and considering all he’s done is watch the other good players at the club leave and win things, i am not surprised he is putting himself in the shop window as the team he plays for gets shitter and shitter around him. Whatever you… Read more »
Sometimes I dont understand some fans… the same people who criticized Walcott for being horribly wasteful in front of goal these last years are the same who are criticizing him for being ‘a prostitute in a shop’.
Is Walcott TOO effective now?
Theo wants to stay, maybe he will, maybe he wont, but fans are hating on the most effective player this season while hes still in red and white is just stupid and suicidal.
I like Theo very much, Not because of his football, u like someone for no clear reason, Maybe you think they are nice ppl, Theo is that nice guy for me, In terms of his football, he can be good and shit in a span of 10mins. Even Theo won’t know why, But this “noise” from Theo is clearly advised from agents. Theo is not good at it, as we can see. Personally I wont feel much if he left, but my worry is will we get a replacement better than him…?? and How much it will affect our team… Read more »