It is confirmed Walcott has no footballing brain

[Alpha]

when that statement was made I was on of the first ones to make objection against it . But having watched him closely a few times I came to a conclusion that I was wrong . The boy may have a talent that he is not developing yet but at 22 it might be too late I'm afraid . The lad has without doubt some frighting pace and he is a decent finisher but his reading of the game is so poor that he sometimes looks like an amateur . His decision making is a joke . He always keep the ball too long when he should have made a pass and ends up losing it and allowing a dangerous counter-attack against his side . He will start running and leave the ball behind him when receiving a pass . Chamberlain looks mile ahead of him when it should have been the other way round . Should he be sold or be given more time ? Will he really improve as at 22 he seems not to improve at all ?

[Marc Overmars]

He will be sold to Chelsea.

[Alpha]

That will be a good move for him . Provided we get Gotze , Podolski and Hazard .

[BOBN]

Lazy regurgitation of a media pundit nothing statement.

Try thinking for yourself next time.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Yeah he should be done with us, tbh, even playing him in the middle or upfront he does not have confidence, and im not so sure i have confidence in him to be one of our strikers, id rather we sell him even if that swap deal doe Sturridge is open.

Once again when he was needed to step up he failed.

Its So Frustrating because we all know he has the talent but seems to lack confidence in most games.

[GP]

Lazy regurgitation of a media pundit nothing statement.

Try thinking for yourself next time.

Agreed. No such thing as a footballing brain.

[Syn]

when that statement was made I was on of the first ones to make objection against it . But having watched him closely a few times I came to a conclusion that I was wrong . The boy may have a talent that he is not developing yet but at 22 it might be too late I'm afraid . The lad has without doubt some frighting pace and he is a decent finisher but his reading of the game is so poor that he sometimes looks like an amateur . His decision making is a joke . He always keep the ball too long when he should have made a pass and ends up losing it and allowing a dangerous counter-attack against his side . He will start running and leave the ball behind him when receiving a pass . Chamberlain looks mile ahead of him when it should have been the other way round . Should he be sold or be given more time ? Will he really improve as at 22 he seems not to improve at all ?

I would give him a couple more years. I don't agree that he doesn't read the game well. His runs are often very smart; he knows when he has to bend his run when the defence is playing a high line and he knows when he can just run straight in behind. He keeps fucking up - but he is able to keep getting into those right positions to fuck up. He doesn't have composure and it's something that is very frustrating to see. He panics too much. But I credit him for keeping getting in those positions because a player with less character (dare I say, Gervinho or Chamakh) don't even try but fizzle out the game.

His place is under pressure next season though. At the current rate, Oxlade and Miyaichi will be our wide starters. But I'm not writing off Theo just yet.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

His runs are smart but his runs with the ball, often aren't. He's going to do himself a serious injury if he keeps running in to defenders (with the ball).

[Marc Overmars]

He hasn't quite perfected the art of punt and run in the same way Bale has.

[Niall_Quinn]

He's playing much better in the last couple of weeks and has been a genuine threat. He's halfway up from the rock bottom return he was previously providing, so he's still frustrating as hell and could still do a lot better but at least he's shown he can improve. He does still make terrible decisions on the ball more often than not and that's a major problem. It costs us too and as the OP pointed out Theo can be as big a threat to us as he is to the opposition. A few weeks back I'd have said get rid of him for sure because he's going nowhere. But maybe if we add some more talent to the team in the summer (as in, actually add talent rather than just talk about it) he'll have less responsibility and a lighter burden, can be rotated more and could end up an effective squad player to be used in the right games at the right time. That will mean Wenger paying a bit more (any) attention to the opposition and their strengths and weaknesses. Over the last couple of weeks Wenger seems to be doing some of that. Bottom line, we need to keep what we have* and add more, the squad is threadbare as we saw last night.


* Chamakh has to go of course, but that will strengthen the squad.