What now for Walcott?

[Power n Glory]

Bah…the point gets lost on you guys. Most managers wouldn't put a gut with low work rate down on the flanks and we could have made better use of the guy in the middle behind the striker over Ramsey last season.

[Xhaka Can’t]

I get your point but I figured the quip about Keegan was gold.

I'm not going to waste an opportunity like that.

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[Power n Glory]

Fair play, GB.

[IBK]

@ the people suggesting that the failure to re-sign Theo is because the club won't meet with his agents rather than the other way round.

Firstly Wenger has said repeatedly over the past few months that the club is engaged in talks. I accept that people have the right not to believe this. But the reality is that noone knows the truth, so noone can claim the high ground over what is really happening.

Secondly, if the contract talks aren't about money, this would be an almost unprecedented situation in the light of what we know about footballers and contracts. Funny how some people seem to believe that Theo is some kind of a saint whose people wouldn't stoop to putting pressure on the club wages-wise. I simply can't buy the idea that this situation is not money related.

Lastly, even if the club rather than Theo's people are playing hardball over wages, it will have its reasons for doing so. For me, people beating the club up over Theo's contract situation are doing so as part of the general disenchantment with the perception of us being a selling club interested only in making money. If so, this is less a debate over Theo, and more a wider denate that has been well-worn. But I see nothing wrong with a manager assessing a player's worth and setting a maximum wage limit accordingly. Theo contributes goals and assists, but I can sympathise with a manager looking at his consistency over the past 7 years, and feeling that he does not merit the club's highest pay bracket. I think that its easy to forget that the wages that the petrodallar clubs and Manure are able to pay are simply in a different bracket to what everyone else, Arsenal included, can pay, and its dangerous to judge the club's stance accordingly.

[Kano]

For me, people beating the club up over Theo's contract situation are doing so as part of the general disenchantment with the perception of us being a selling club interested only in making money.

given the loop we have fallen into with these contract situations, it points to poor organisation rather than a focus on purely making money. which is shocking given the 'high level' of 'executives' supposedly working 'all hours' to finalise these things.

[Power n Glory]

@ the people suggesting that the failure to re-sign Theo is because the club won't meet with his agents rather than the other way round.

Firstly Wenger has said repeatedly over the past few months that the club is engaged in talks. I accept that people have the right not to believe this. But the reality is that noone knows the truth, so noone can claim the high ground over what is really happening.

Secondly, if the contract talks aren't about money, this would be an almost unprecedented situation in the light of what we know about footballers and contracts. Funny how some people seem to believe that Theo is some kind of a saint whose people wouldn't stoop to putting pressure on the club wages-wise. I simply can't buy the idea that this situation is not money related.

Lastly, even if the club rather than Theo's people are playing hardball over wages, it will have its reasons for doing so. For me, people beating the club up over Theo's contract situation are doing so as part of the general disenchantment with the perception of us being a selling club interested only in making money. If so, this is less a debate over Theo, and more a wider denate that has been well-worn. But I see nothing wrong with a manager assessing a player's worth and setting a maximum wage limit accordingly. Theo contributes goals and assists, but I can sympathise with a manager looking at his consistency over the past 7 years, and feeling that he does not merit the club's highest pay bracket. I think that its easy to forget that the wages that the petrodallar clubs and Manure are able to pay are simply in a different bracket to what everyone else, Arsenal included, can pay, and its dangerous to judge the club's stance accordingly.

Hey, it took 6 months to thrash out his last deal for some reason. The club is slow to sort these thing because Theo isn't the only example. Also, I'm just picking on the fact that you're saying Theo's people walked out on negotiations and reporting it as fact. If nobody knows the truth of the matter and I've heard contrary reports from another credible journalist, then where has the perception come from about the wages and his representatives stalling? Am I wrong to question the source and then to ask for people to think back to past cases?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Wenger's got it right again. Played him out wide and he scored 2 goals. Definitely his most effective position.

Wenger

He scored 2 goals vs the mighty coventry, so he must be played upfront tbh

[Cripps_orig]

He scored 2 goals vs the mighty coventry, so he must be played upfront tbh

Moving the goalposts

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Moving the goalposts

Not really its the truth, he scored to goals did he not. so he should be played upfront its simple really.

[LDG]