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Transfer Rumour Theo Walcott

Would you like him?

  • Yes

    Votes: 690 66.2%
  • No

    Votes: 241 23.1%
  • Cheese on toast

    Votes: 112 10.7%

  • Total voters
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Wrong. Wooney has scored winners for us this season, I still can't wait for the fat aul boy to leave.

We have mediocrity everywhere. And Walcott just adds to the already huge list of bang average has beens we seem so obsessed with collecting at this once glorious football club.

Ronaldo wants to leave Real. Think we'd get him?
 
The concern is that these are Allardyce signings and there is no systematic approach to our play which will see us develop as a club for next decade.

Aside from my trolling in this thread, my issue goes much larger than the purchase. We seem to be throwing ridiculous money at players for different systems and there is no cohesion at all.

The idea of appointing Walsh was to set a pattern where a manager can seamlessly fall in and continue as if there is no change (same approach, same ideas on how the game should be played etc etc).

We’ve gone from Koeman wanting a high press and quick turnover to Allardyce sitting deep and pumping the ball from one end to the other as quick as possible, this then as the club wasting money on fixes to solutions which may again arise when we change manager again.

There’s one man who failed massively at his job yet seems to be invincible.
Well just on your first paragraph
We now have a left winger playing on the left
A right winger playing on the right
A centre forward playing centre forward
A proper No 10 in the No 10 position.
We have choice of players to play the the 2 defensive roles , some defence minded ( Gana McCarthy Morgan Baningmame ) some attack minded (Rooney Davies )
We have a right back playing right back
We have a choice of 4 CB to play in the CB positions
We have a goalkeeper to play in goal.
A 4/2/3/1 formation is what springs to mind with a possible 3/4/3 or 3/5/2 or 4/5/1 if needed
What we don’t have is a left back to play left back.
Wether any of the above players are good enough is another question entirely
 
Just what we DON'T need: another near-30s misfit who a top six club want to offload to someone below them to maintain the status quo in one easy manoeuvre.

Not only that, we'll give them upwards of £20m towards their purchase of a quality player who will enhance their long-term prospects and maintain the divide between them and us.

Why do we continually fall for this con-trick?

Worse, we don't need him. We already have Bolasie there, with Lennon behind him and also Lookman and Vlasic eager for a place. The latter two are the future, not someone who has flattered to deceive throughout his career at Arsenal, punctuated by regular lengthy spells on the treatment table.

The board seem determined to shape the team in their own image: six players all vying for the same role and - none where they are most needed.

Sadly, my opinion will have no bearing whatsoever on what looks like a done deal. I can only hope that Southampton want him more and he sees that as a better option (please).

But as long as we set our sights so relatively low, we will never achieve the heights we aspire to.

How can a team comprising inferior talents and players in the twilight of their careers hope to form a unit capable of challenging those above us?

It's fanciful and completely unfeasible.

We have become a club that is more concerned with being nice and giving ridiculous long-term contracts to numerous players who are either simply not good enough, injury-prone or fourth choice in an overloaded position - instead of buying that player 'we can't get' and making a statement. Let's try doing that for a change, then, others will come.

Until that time, if ever it arrives, this is as good as it gets. And it is not good enough.

PS: is it worth letting Allardyce, Walsh, Kenwright and Moshiri know that we need a left back, as I don't think they have quite got it yet?
 

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