Theo Walcott: Sold to Everton

[Tir Na Nog]

He's not the only one who's work rate and overall contribution to the team has fallen off a cliff these past few months. It's an entire team issue at the moment.

 

[Vinci]

Once he won his coffee maker that Theo dissappeared

Haha.

 

[Hyruga]

Luckily for us, Walcott played more games for us this season and scored lots of goals and brought us close to top 4!

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

He's not the only one who's work rate and overall contribution to the team has fallen off a cliff these past few months. It's an entire team issue at the moment.

They've all checked out.

Wenger talk about strong mentality. But the real test of mentality is how the team would respond 1 month ago. And the response has been utterly disgust.

 

[sammyvine]

He doesn't do enough imo.

His production is okay but if he wants to be that kind of player he needs to be like Dele Alli and make more clever runs etc...

 

[bojed]

I believe Theo is a very limited player but he excels at what he does best, at least for half of a season.

That's the problem when you don't have much in anything else. You either have to push yourself and become a freak of nature like CR7 or you'll be roasted on open fire when a slight of change lies in your way.

 

[mm76]

Will start again in the next game.

start doing what again, apologising?

 

[Lookin' for a new Baby]

So you are unable to dribble past your fullback or offer any support in attack because you can barely cross and like to eat up the CF space looking for a tap in, okay. That's part of the game, let's pretend you can be an Arsenal level footballer for a decade without any of that.

But at least offer something defensively ffs, the 3 good games he had this season showed a Theo covering for Bellerin when he overlapped, running that extra bit to isolate the attacks starting from our right. Once he won his coffee maker that Theo dissappeared

I think he also disappeared after missing out on England selection after he'd put in a lot of effort after missing out for the Euros. I used to get the feeling that paying for England meant more to him, and playing for Arsenal was a vehicle for that. He won't be getting into the England team any time son if ever again the way he's playing now. Defoe can and he's nearly ten years older!

 

[Dokaka]

Man, Walcott is such a weird case. Been at the club for more than a decade, scored around 100 goals and approaching 400 games, yet he's disliked by the majority of the fanbase. Don't think I've ever seen anything like that before. He's closing in on the top 10 for most appearances and goals for Arsenal, yet people seem to genuinely hate him.

Such a shame, I was a big fan of him. So exciting with his pace, but the rest of his game never really developed. Great finisher on his day but he'll get rapidly worse as his pace disappears.

In many ways he's the posterboy for Wenger's/Arsenal's barren years. Been at the club for more than a decade but he's never really done anything memorable. His career highlights are two wonder-goals against Chelsea and Newcastle.

 

[Lookin' for a new Baby]

'but the rest of his game never really developed.'

That's the trouble, he his in an enigma, but his stats may be borne out of the fact that he has played more than most because he has been at the club so long. others will know the stats on that, maybe I'm wrong, yes even me!!!! The trouble is, it seems like he's been a passenger for most of that time, and as you say, he hasn't really developed. I put him in the potential category in my head because I'm still waiting.

 

[CJJ]

Man, Walcott is such a weird case. Been at the club for more than a decade, scored around 100 goals and approaching 400 games, yet he's disliked by the majority of the fanbase. Don't think I've ever seen anything like that before. He's closing in on the top 10 for most appearances and goals for Arsenal, yet people seem to genuinely hate him.

Such a shame, I was a big fan of him. So exciting with his pace, but the rest of his game never really developed. Great finisher on his day but he'll get rapidly worse as his pace disappears.

In many ways he's the posterboy for Wenger's/Arsenal's barren years. Been at the club for more than a decade but he's never really done anything memorable. His career highlights are two wonder-goals against Chelsea and Newcastle.

I know its not a goal but this highlight always comes to my mind as well

 

[Lookin' for a new Baby]

I know its not a goal but this highlight always comes to my mind as well

Yes but, he broke all the rules then and didn't pass the ball sideways or backwards, he's learned how to do that now though, so everything is OK.

 

[Trilly]

I guess speaking the truth is now offensive to the snowflakes on AM

I admire the honesty too, but it also shows that he's a terrible captain because what he said should not have happened!

 

[Trilly]

Man, Walcott is such a weird case. Been at the club for more than a decade, scored around 100 goals and approaching 400 games, yet he's disliked by the majority of the fanbase. Don't think I've ever seen anything like that before. He's closing in on the top 10 for most appearances and goals for Arsenal, yet people seem to genuinely hate him.

Such a shame, I was a big fan of him. So exciting with his pace, but the rest of his game never really developed. Great finisher on his day but he'll get rapidly worse as his pace disappears.

In many ways he's the posterboy for Wenger's/Arsenal's barren years. Been at the club for more than a decade but he's never really done anything memorable. His career highlights are two wonder-goals against Chelsea and Newcastle.

If we had put the time and effort we'd put into Walcott into any winger with good fundamentals then we would probably have a top class winger by now.

 

[Lookin' for a new Baby]

I admire the honesty too, but it also shows that he's a terrible captain because what he said should not have happened!

I would like to think that we would match Palace for 'wanting it more' before the match, and that if we didn't we upped our game to make sure we wanted it more after KO. When the going gets tough the tough get going.

 

[Hunta]

Decided that he's on my for sale list.

Get him gone.

 

[Taylor Gang Gunners]

I know its not a goal but this highlight always comes to my mind as well

Can't believe how late Ade acknowledged Theo's amazing work . He should've got the hint when no one ran over to him.

 

[grange]

I admire the honesty too, but it also shows that he's a terrible captain because what he said should not have happened!

Definitely agree with that. Who's idea was it to make him captain? He doesn't influence our matches regularly without service and he's never been vocal on the pitch. It's confusing as to why he was given the arm band now. Was it because he just scored 100 goals and Wenger wanted to show him a gesture for it?

This is supposedly the toughest league in the world yet posters here are offended by him being honest about the team being outplayed and lacking desire? That's soft to me. We've seen what he said for months now. I'm glad he spoke out about it. Wenger probably gave him the gag order after this.

 

[mm76]

Who's idea was it to make him captain?

do you really have to ask...

 

[grange]

That was rhetorical.