The issue with these things though, is how saleable someone like Walcott is. There has been a big change from almost all teams to sign younger players who you can move on. In many ways we got caught out of that loop by appointing Allardyce and signing Walcott for pretty reasonable money.
You also have to factor in, that Walcott is a bit of a known commodity and probably quite easy to manage. Seems a good pro, and you know what he is going to do. There's no great magic to it anyone, but it can be reasonably effective. I'd imagine he trains quite well as well. He was always a poor signing but we are sort of stuck with him now. Fortunately he doesn't seem to be massively losing his pace and when used in rotation seems to stay quite fit.
If an offer comes in for Walcott, even for around half of what we paid I think he goes. Pretty similar to Schneiderlin I'd say. However if it doesn't I suspect he will stay and provide competition and some experience for the younger lads we've bought.
He was awful last season. We can only hope he does a bit better next time!
