What now for Walcott?

[Power n Glory]

PNG you missed my point, I'm saying that those have proved themselves which means at some point they played in their favoured position and convinced their managers this was where they should be played.

I don't think Walcott has done that whenever he as played up front (which isn't as much as it could have been admittedly), if things aren't going the way you want them you have to force the manager's hand when the opportunity arrives, he just hasn't.

Question is, do you think another manager would play them outside of their preferred position and keep playing them there for so long? If Theo had gone to any other club, he'd have been played as a striker because his strengths and weaknesses are that obvious.

Would any other manager play Defoe or Owen on the wing with the intention of playing them as a striker years later? How else can Theo prove his position as striker besides scoring goals? This is a very Wenger like problem and he's unconventional because I can't see any other manager trying this sort of thing. Besides Henry, has he successfully developed any other strikers like this?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

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[LDG]

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Letters Wedding?

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

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****s corner?

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Letters Wedding?

****s corner?

Well.....

[Syn]

Learning to shoot and beating a man is different too. You can improve on shooting with practice. You just have to learn how to hit the target and the rest is up to the keeper. With dribbling, it's not so simple because you'll have to face different types of wing backs with varying skill, pace, strength, you get double teamed…dribbling skills you develop early. Remember watching a show about Brazilian futsal where most of the Brazil kids like Kaka and Robinho learn how to play. The kids that play in Brazil learn the technical dribbling stuff from toddler age and then the rest of the stuff comes later. I've never seen a player dramatically improve on his dribbling technique in the same way I've seen a player learn how to use his weaker foot or get confident in front of goal.

I don't really agree because the problem isn't to do with accuracy with shooting. Even Mertesacker probably has the ability to slot it in the side-netting. But it's about replicating the pressure situation which you can't 'practice'. In that sense, you're more able to practice taking players on if you're having to skip past a bunch of different players in training. With the 'dribbling', we're not questioning Theo's technique, just his decision-making. He needs to know when to 'go', not how to Cazorla his way out with 500 touches. I think he could pick that up. I don't think Gervinho is particularly talented - he just confuses defenders by being weird.

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wenger being the best manager in the league?

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wenger being the best manager in the league?

in the pub team league ?

[Letters]

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If it's Walcott then it must be because he's Durham's been reading GW. It's not been in the papers or anything.

[Bergkampwonderland10]

Where did you get that info from about his people delaying contract talks because I've heard differently. I was watching Sunday Supplement and one of the journalists was talking about our contract situation and said it was that were taking ages to initiate talks with his people. And if I remember correctly, during his last contract talks, it was a similar story and Theo made a comment to the press about us taking him for granted an assuming he'll sign any deal.

Also, I think your taking it a bit far with this outrage. Theo hasn't issued an ultimatum through the press. If anything, he's spoken to Wenger already and this is the short term agreement they have. He'll get his chance as striker. Wenger has already come out and said it wasn't about the money, he made another statement saying he was concerned about the reception he received during his last game and now Theo has made this statement clearing up the money issue. It looks like damage control and PR from the club so fans won't assume the worst and stop certain blogs from stoking the flames. Booing a player over this issue is silly especially when we have half of the information. This is probably why Wenger and now the player are trying to address the issue.

Wenger says anything to protect his players even the disloyal ones. It's not really about the money for Walcott himself but it sure is for those representing him...don't pretend any differently...it's their job to make the most money possible, often at the player's expense.
Not heard any booing, and if there has been then that's just plain silly, from silly people.
Yes, pretty sure there were lots of reports stating walcott's party wouldn't sit down for talks until they'd seen we'd qualified for CL...then it was a difference on salary and now it's about playing upfront. It's not outrage to be honest - just cynicism. If he signs I will be more than happy as I rate him and think we can get more out of him, but the whole situation is rather stinky if you ask me, and it's very unlikely he'll sign before Jan with the way it's gone so far.