Transfer Rumour Theo Walcott

[Kever10]

This is his 4th transfer window isnt it? to not have brought in a left back by now is near on embarrassing.

I dont, but if you look at the traditional roles and responsibilities of a Director of Football - you'll see he is failing. Nothing to do with tactics or team, thats nothing to do with director of football so dont know why thats being suggested.

Yeah it probably is positive, but the fact we went after multiple managers which dont follow the same philosophy suggests that the traditional DoF role of ensure the club endures regardless of a manager isnt being implemented.

So, in your mind (opinion) his role is head of recruitment........ sound I agree with that, because what he is doing is nothing like a DoF works like.

So you claim that I suggested about signing world class players, and complaining about their fee's when I said nothing of the sort. That is odd.

anyway, arsed carrying this on, you suggested he is head of recruitment, I probably agree with that so the club needs to assess how it gives out job titles.

My initial point was not made in response to you, but the general negativity towards him, which includes but is not restricted to, the type and quality of player we have signed. Your response to me, was to argue that he has failed without equally being able to tell me what his role is or should be and what he has specifically failed in.

As for left back, identifying, scouting, tracking, bidding, buying are all different things. Like I say, you have no reason, other than the fact we have yet to sign a top left back, that we have not done any of the aforementioned levels, and again, there still needs to be an agreement between him and the management team, as well as the negotiations with the other team. You could also suggest that that Lewis Gibson, who we spent £6m on in August is an example of the forward thinking for a player in that position, but whatever, I'm not precious.

I at no point said he was only a director of recruitment, although I assume he would have that as 1 of his many roles he has to balance.

My initial point, was and continues to be, that he appears to be something of an intermediary scape goat for our team under performing, and I feel, especially given I don't know the ins and outs of his performance agreement, that it's a bit harsh, and that the majority of our current woes land squarely at the feet of a manager who we foolishly believed knew what he was doing, and he was tracked and appointed before Walsh was, so it all seems a bit reactionary.

His role going forward is not something that will be fixed overnight and the fact we are now faced with sorting a mess out mid season as we are, his influence is only going to be marginalised again, while we fight for survival.

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

We don't, no team on the planet with Martina and Williams/Jagileka in the back four is challenging for anything.



Again, we don't, we just look like a collection of ageing directionless knobheads.



We need another centre back as well, Holgates emergence has meant that we probably just need 1 for now rather than a couple.



Agreed

I didn't mean to hurt you

 

[ProZ]

Even less respect for this speed demon now. 28 year old turning down CL footy in favour of an easy pay day

You moan you want a better player than Walcott then moan he’s turned down a better team to sign for us, which is exactly what would need to happen if we signed a better player than Walcott anyway.

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

Why does he want to play for Allardyce? Why didn't he join West Ham or Palace?

 

[nsno-chris]

You moan you want a better player than Walcott then moan he’s turned down a better team for us, which is exactly what would need to happen if we signed a better player than Walcott anyway.

Aren’t you a precious snowflake

 

[Toffe3m4n]

At the very least I see him as an upgrade on Lennon. Not a bad thing, but for the money being spent I just hope it's a transfer that pays off for us, even short term.

 

[MikeH72]

You don't think this squad is underperforming?

Absolutely not, no. The squad is hideous.

 

[Berenger]

The SSN/Allardyce line is made up.

He actually asked a voodoo on Islington High Street whether he should go to Everton or Dortmund and she simply passed him a tarot card with a pint of gravy on it.

 

[yakublue]

We have a squad of players who should be pushing for Europe and in the knock out stages this season. We aren't recouping what we are spending and seeing any success. We can keep playing this game of catch up for years and end up in a bad way.

On paper we look great, practically we are diabolical and a team that has no chemistry amongst them.

The worst thing we can do is throw money around. We only need a LB now, just leave it at that.

I think Moshiri is insane and thinks splashing money on average players is going to be a quick scheme to get us into Europe again. When it doesn't happen he sacks the manager.

He has no business plan or strategy for this so called project. It's a a car crash.

This. It's not sustainable signing second-rate older players when you aren't competing for trophies already. It reeks of short-term thinking that simply won't yield results.

We should be aiming to build a core of players to compete at the top end after 3-5 years.

The current approach will land us in massive trouble in a few years.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Absolutely not, no. The squad is hideous.

To be fair I think there is an argument to be had that we should be performing better than me are.

 

[Bungle]

I didn't mean to hurt you

I've been a bit emotional lately and also posted far too much actual football opinion, is there such a thing as the male menopause?

 

[MikeH72]

To be fair I think there is an argument to be had that we should be performing better than me are.

We should be given the money spent, but that's because the money should have been spent properly. If you're looking purely at the squad on paper and the players we have, then you'd be hard pushed to find a more dishevelled mess.

 

[ADT]

“Dortmund were also keen to sign Walcott, but the desire to play for Big Sam at Goodison proved decisive.”

HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

 

[deipnosophist]

We have a squad of players who should be pushing for Europe and in the knock out stages this season.

...we have a terrible squad who play awful football. They are spineless poltroons, lacking any stomach for a fight. They are a leaderless rabble.
90% of them need throwing in a skip

 

[PeregrineT]

And regardless of what you think of Walcott, you cant argue it is far far better business to pay 20 million for someone who has scored over 100 goals in the league, versus paying 26 million for Bolasie, who had scored 13. Seriously, whhhhyyy did we pay that for him?