Winter Transfer Despair and Bafflement.

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Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur

I’ll miss that guy. Hopefully, he can reclaim some credibility at Everton. Scoring over 100 goals for Arsenal from the wing and for a player of his ability is no easy task. Was never developed as a winger. He was a number 9 playing on the wing. Wish him all the best.

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I call it 50/50 blame for the demise of Walcott. Half down to the player, half down to the idiot who squandered one of the brightest talents at his disposal. I don't know if Theo stayed on out of loyalty or just stupidity and laziness, but staying on has cost him the better part of what could have been a great career. And that idiot who stuck him in the England squad when the players was barely out of nappies, he carries a big chunk of the blame too. Another fraud manager who talks the talk and walks like a drunk, btw.

I don't feel any resentment towards Theo. It's good he has finally left to give his career one more shot. It'll be a huge task for him to step things up now having been in a coma for so long, but good luck to him anyway. If Everton manager to get anything out of him they'll have won themselves a bargain. I doubt it though and I expect to see Theo back on the bench when the honeymoon is over.

This transfer feels like the end of an era at Arsenal. The era of waste. I hope so anyway.

Theo gone and now the one man we all want to see go (apart from Letters and Ty) to follow him out in the summer?

Please God!

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Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur

We could easily find a Plan B striker for cheap and that knows he'll be a sub. Would be nuts to reject a trade deal because Giroud's involved.

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I just can't get my head around not improving plan A significantly at the risk of losing your plan B....Particularly when plan B might have well left in the summer anyway!

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Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur

I’ll miss that guy. Hopefully, he can reclaim some credibility at Everton. Scoring over 100 goals for Arsenal from the wing and for a player of his ability is no easy task. Was never developed as a winger. He was a number 9 playing on the wing. Wish him all the best.

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Jamie Carragher pretty much said the same thing.....apart from the sentimental missing him part. That is exactly how I feel too though......despite the fact he's fairly unpopular these days.

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Originally Posted by Penguin

It is useful to have a 'plan B' too, Giroud has bailed us out with headed goals at times when we can't break through. But if he's the dealbreaker for Aubameyang then I'd kick Giroud out the door and drive him to the airport myself.

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Oh I agree, I’d pack his bags for him too.

Just hope we’re not leaving ourselves a little bit light with no reliable source of goals.

Bif is second rate and has always been second rate. He's done well to make a name for himself and done brilliantly to land a place in the French team. But that speaks more about a general lack of talent globally. He's more a Shearer type, but would you really pick him over Shearer? There's a gulf between them. The game has gone backwards to Bif's benefit.

Generally a lazy bastard on the pitch, infuriating. And his presence has, overall, made us a worse team. There is a plan B with him about 3 times a season, we've just conflated the few goals he scores coming off the bench with a real alternative gameplan, which doesn't actually exist. How many time have we brought him on and then failed to deliver a single cross? How many times has he failed to get in the box if a cross does happen to come in? Spectacular goals don't replace the bread and butter a top rate striker can bring you over the course of a season.

I don't think we'll miss him at all. I don't see what he brings and have never seen it. We've always needed a better player than him.

I don't feel animosity towards him, he's served the club to the best of his limited ability and he's (of course) been another victim of Wenger's fucked up idea of football. So he's another one I'll wish good luck to if he goes.

But still, we wait for the one man to go that would really make the difference. The old fart who promises never to leave.

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Originally Posted by Delusions of Grandeur

I’ll miss that guy. Hopefully, he can reclaim some credibility at Everton. Scoring over 100 goals for Arsenal from the wing and for a player of his ability is no easy task. Was never developed as a winger. He was a number 9 playing on the wing. Wish him all the best.

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Can’t say I’ll miss him but I do wish him well and hope he is successful. Seems like a good guy who just got stuck in a rut here.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Can’t say I’ll miss him but I do wish him well and hope he is successful. Seems like a good guy who just got stuck in a rut here.

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That's because he kept running in straight lines. He ended up 2 feet deeper every season.

On Walcott, never really rated the guy, basically a speed merchant IMO, came with a big reputation and didn't deliver in reality, what's worse though is that he could have moved for 1st team football years ago but instead chose to stick around for the money.

The guy has no dribbling skills, isn't great at timining his runs and was very inconsistent and other than one season didn't deliver enough goals either, the amount of times the guy got caught offside as well was ridiculous, all you have to do it look down the line it's not rocket science. IMO we should have got rid of this guy years ago when it was clear he wasn't going to make it. Trust us to sign an expensive youngster who turns out to not be much cop!

As for Aubameyang, Giroud, happy to let Giroud go, he's not a consistent scorer and is really just a good sub, plus he's 30 odd now, Aubameyang is a proven scorer.

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

That's because he kept running in straight lines. He ended up 2 feet deeper every season.

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Yup, the reality is the guy had no footballing brain at all, couldn't beat his man, didn't make great runs, never convinced about his ability we never really saw it, he was fast I'll give him that but that's not enough to be top class.

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It has become clear that United have beaten Manchester City in the race to sign Sanchez. But Mkhitaryan's agent Mino Raiola insisted he will either leave on his own terms or jeopardise the swap deal with Sanchez.

However, it is understood that Mkhitaryan accepts he has no future at United and is now looking to negotiate an increase on his £140,000-a-week contract when he moves.

Raiola said: 'It's up to Arsenal to put a deal in place and right now a deal is a long way off. Sanchez is part of Mkhi's deal. Not the other way around.'

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Funny fat pig. So how come the team in 6th is where your superstar is headed? Where's the bidding war? The word you are looking for, matey, is makeweight. Something you should know plenty about you fat fuck.