What now for Walcott?

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Theo is calling Wengers bluff

Good on him

[Syn]

Theo is calling Wengers bluff

Never said he wasn't.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Come on now. Never be a top 10 striker without being able to beat your man! Do you think Defoe would make a good winger and be able to consistently beat his man? What about Dzeko? Holt, Adebayor, Hernandez, Berbatov?

If Wenger was to place Giroud on the wing, top goal scorer in France, do you think he'd be able to consistently beat his man? I get what Wenger is trying to do but you don't have to have mad dribbling skills to play as a striker. If so, he might as well call it a day with Giroud. Even Poldoski, he doesn't hug the touch line and run at defenders with the ball like Gervinho does. He plays one twos and gets around them that way. Vela had no impact for us on the wing and it was the same for Eduardo but they were both natural goal scorers, technically better than Theo but they had problems getting into games when out wide.

If other other coaches can make do with different types of strikers, why can't Wenger. Cesc Fabregas could never play out on the wing and beat his man but he's still able to play that false 9 role effectively for Spain and Barca. We need to make use of the players we have and play to a players strengths and stop this total football obsession where everybody can play every role.

No because its not his posistion and he has proved himself a stiker. he has done that from his Westham days. Yeah Theo may have been a stiker at saints but doing it there and doing it at Arsenal are 2 diffrent things. Do you think He could lead the line alone and we can rely on him when we play teams like Barca/Real etc?

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Theo is calling Wenger buff

Theo

What a bender.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Theo is calling Wengers bluff

Good on him

Figure it out.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

]every season he has come out at some point to say that the move will happen and that theo is right for it.[/B]

he said it last season too.

Wenger says alot of things. End of the day Wenger and Bould and the Stiker coach/es see him in training and if they feel he is not progressing then he won't be played upfront regarless of what Wenger tells the press.

I Theo feels he is being hard done by then he should have left a few seasons ago.

[Kano]

No because its not his posistion and he has proved himself a stiker. he has done that from his Westham days. Yeah Theo may have been a stiker at saints but doing it there and doing it at Arsenal are 2 diffrent things. Do you think He could lead the line alone and we can rely on him when we play teams like Barca/Real etc?

september last year

"“But I believe that Oxlade-Chamberlain could be a central midfielder one day and Walcott a central striker one day."

"“Many times in press conference people ask me why we don’t play Walcott in the middle so he can play there if we need to do it.”"

[Letters]

"one day".

But don't you think Theo needs to show something in training and in games for that to happen?

[Kano]

Wenger says alot of things. End of the day Wenger and Bould and the Stiker coach/es see him in training and if they feel he is not progressing then he won't be played upfront regarless of what Wenger tells the press.

I Theo feels he is being hard done by then he should have left a few seasons ago.

i guess its called faith in the manager, rather than running off at the first sight of disagreement. that's what we want as fans isn't it?

he can tell the press what he wants of course but if he thinks that doesnt come back to the players then he is in cloud cuckooland.

[Kano]

"one day".

But don't you think Theo needs to show something in training and in games for that to happen?

ah yeah right. score 11 goals, set up 13 others and then there is no way he can link play or score goals.

he's being mugged off by wenger.

the 2nd quote says he can play there now.