What now for Walcott?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

charlie can do whatever he wants tbh

he's being groomed as a future mod so id watch out if i was you

chaz

Feck that for a laugh.

[Özil's Panoramic View]

That's great news, maybe he'll take a more background role like the rest of then if that's the case.

This place would be boring as fuck should Charlie try to emulate his fellow mods

[Power n Glory]

I never said it was a good move. Its Knowledge that Theo can sign a Pre contract in Jan. My point was he'll be sold before thats allowed to happen.

Fair enough if that's your stance. Pay me no mind.

But I know £10m is a good deal, which is what I was getting at in the first place. A week ago, I said we'd be lucky to get £5m.

[tech12]

Why can't we do what all the Spanish/French clubs seem to do. Make Walcott sign a long term contract, and then just sell him for more.

[Joker]

There's still questions to be asked about exactly when the contract offer was made, how much was offered and whether Walcott walked away from the talks etc. Of course Kroenke apologists claim they have inside info that Theo's representatives cut off negotiations, but it wouldn't surprise me if the club messed up by either not offering a contract soon enough (as they did with Song) or making Theo a derisory offer.

[Power n Glory]

There's still questions to be asked about exactly when the contract offer was made, how much was offered and whether Walcott walked away from the talks etc. Of course Kroenke apologists claim they have inside info that Theo's representatives cut off negotiations, but it wouldn't surprise me if the club messed up by either not offering a contract soon enough (as they did with Song) or making Theo a derisory offer.

Arseblog has said that Theo's people cut off talks but one of the journalists on Sunday Supplement with more credible sources said there were preliminary talks about the deal early in the season, that is standard, but it took them ages to offer him a contract and schedule an official meeting between the two camps. As Theo said, the last deal took 6 months to thrash out. I just think our people are slow and purposely offered a deal late on towards the end of the transfer window. Song's camp were told to wait for contract talks after the window had closed so I think we purposely leave things late.

[Japan Shaking All Over]

Feck that for a laugh.

Would rather stick pins in my eyes. . .than have Charlie modding :wink:

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Would rather stick pins in my eyes. . .than have Charlie modding :wink:

Fair enough if that's your stance. Pay me no mind.

But I know £10m is a good deal, which is what I was getting at in the first place. A week ago, I said we'd be lucky to get £5m.

Tbh PnG i just wanted it sorted one way of the other. So we can all move on.

[Niall_Quinn]

Why can't we do what all the Spanish/French clubs seem to do. Make Walcott sign a long term contract, and then just sell him for more.

Couple of problems with that. Theo's wages would be less if the transfer fee was higher. Also you'd have to persuade somebody to pay silly money for him so it would limit his options to a move to City, the Chavs or Exxon Mobil. Exxon don't like strikers and Theo wouldn't get a game at City or the Chavs. Liverpool would have been ideal but they spent all their money on Stewart Downing already.

[Niall_Quinn]

Tbh PnG i just wanted it sorted one way of the other. So we can all move on.

Yep, we need to move on to the Cazorla contract dispute.