Wenger wanted him to part of the first team, even before the work permit was official.Originally Posted by Ach
I suspect you will continue your hilarious references to him being here just for Asian marketing purposes throughout the season, however successful he is.
I look forward to being unsurprised.
Why else would he be here?
Hes young and shit which makes the marketing money the only reason we've got him.
Its happened before with Inamoto. Or are you going to deny that happened and continue this needless pointless boring campaign against me?
You guys are probably right, I think Theo's going to be used more frequently as a striker this season. If so, he needs to work on his hold up play because that's an area of his game that's still weak. However, having a bit of pace up front may enable us to mix our game up a bit, and play a more direct style when necessary. Van Persie drops off too deep at times, which closes off options for the midfield (not that the midfield was up to much last season anyway apart from Wilshere) and makes our game predictable and sluggish.
from what i have seen he is really not shit, far from it.
Looks good on paper with this new abundance of pace, god knows we needed it last season with all the predictable and laboured build up play.
Hopefully players like Ryu, Gervinho and Oxo are played to their strengths.
Gervinho, Jenkinson and Oxo. 3 singings.
But why spend £12m on a player who wont be ready for a season or two (no matter how amazing he 'might' be) when A. we have loads of winger/attackers B. If Wenger doesnt win anything for those years he'l be either sacked or incredibly unpopular. C. Wengers going to have to leave sooner or later (hes 60 something), surely the priority should not be on future prospects, but on quality now, to rescue his diminishing reputation.
My only guess as to why he's bought this player is: Wenger thinks he's going to live forever, Oxo is second only to God, Wengers finally got Altzeimers.
Saw AOC's interview where he stated that he always been a central midfielder through the youth ranks. At S'ton he was asked to play on the flank and he gladly obliged. He goe on to say that he likes passing and scoring etc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3Owox8v94A
We won't get the best out of him on the wing if his passing ability is better than his dribbling skills. Another square peg in a round hole from the sound of it. It may take him a few sessions to adjust and he's not a first team starter either.
The comments from Gazidis and Dein about 2 or 3 more signings were all after Gervinho and Jenkinson, by my reckoning anyway.
Incidentally, we didn't have that many wingers, we had strikers and AMs playing out wide, but very few wingers. I don't think he's ever going to compromise the policy we have in place to keep up with the sugar daddied clubs, he's added someone for the now in Gervinho but even raw and inexperienced talent can make the difference as impact subs and squad players, especially when they're a *little* different, look at what Rieira did for Liverpool whilst actually being fairly shit overall.
We definitely need some new signings in defence (would have liked a striker as well though), but at least it's good we seem to have added more pace we badly needed.
The question is how much will Oxo play, if he's treated like Walcott was we might barely see him which would be shame.
From what I've seen of Oxo though he's a decent player, seems a much more natural talent than Walcott.
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