Transfer Rumour Theo Walcott

[Ash Woods]

Apologies if posted on here already i must have missed it, but just seen this...

 

[coollino]

View attachment 43495 Apologies if posted on here already i must have missed it, but just seen this...

What an awful hat.

 

[technojoe]

Sign the ting!

 

[Khalekan]

He's gonna score the winner in the derby mate, trust me!

But will he celebrate.

 

[fandjango]

You're never going to drop that 'argument' are you mate?

Hell no ... he won’t let reasoned argument get in the way of his repetitive stonewalling bias

 

[willo30]

...and he might offer more solo bit part stuff like he did for Arsenal, not fit in, and pull up injured for the umpteenth time in his career.

20 odd million pounds to find that out is too expensive. There'll be no sell on as was warned about Bolasie. The club dont learn.

And yet when we do sell on for big fees (Stones and Lukaku) you slate the club. You can't have it both ways Dave.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

And yet when we do sell on for big fees (Stones and Lukaku) you slate the club. You can't have it both ways Dave.

He reckons he can though, that's his shtick.

 

[davek]

You're never going to drop that 'argument' are you mate?

It's reality. Look at his record.

 

[Papa Shango]

It's pathetic from some quarters.

I swear some people would moan if we signed Messi.

Understandable, the tax dodging snide....

 

[GrandOldTeam]

If he can replicate his goals/assists from the last 2 full seasons for our next two, he'll be a good signing.

 

[davek]

But Dave you suggested we sign Bertrand as the new lb who is 29 in August. What is the difference?

It's about consistency of performance and being robust enough to cope with game after game at that age.

 

[Toffe3m4n]

It's reality. Look at his record.

His record indicates that he's generally stayed fit over the last couple of seasons mate.

 

[Papa Shango]

I mean it is actually a fact that attacking players peak at 25 and they decline rapidly at around 29-30.

There is plenty of research on it. Of course there are exceptions, but they tend to be players who adapt their game, like Ronaldo.

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/blog...goalkeepers-and-central-defenders-peak-latest

Jamie Vardy?

Those stats are daft by the way. It would work if every single footballer was the exact same person but they are not.

People get paid to make that stuff!

 

[mahermi1]

Understandable, the tax dodging snide....

Yes too Damn small and he's 30 for God's sake, no sell on value.

 

[AdaBrummieblue]

injury-prone player signed for big money.

Just not true.


For two of those seasons he's had bad injuries but still played a reasonable amount of games. Every other season he's played a minimum of 40 games (bar one). £20m is also not a large fee nowadays. This rhetoric that he's a crock is simply not true. He's had injuries but every single player picks up knocks, it's part and parcel of the game. Only twice since 2010 has he missed more than 10 games because of injury. Only once more than 11, and that was a cruciate rupture.