Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
I did an analysis of walnuts goals a while back, he's a classic +1 player. Slightly better from him recently in terms of getting useful goals but he's anything but an effective forward. I'd love to see us buy a footballer to replace him. We'd still get the 20 goals but we'd also get so much more that walnut cant provide. The poor bastard screws up 99% of everything that comes his way. He's a disaster zone who statistically over a season will be in the right place enough times to hack something into the net. But that shouldn't be used as cover for his lack of technical and even basic ability. Worrying thing is Ox looks a shadow of the player he was last year. Don't know what Wenger does to these guys but he should stop doing it.
We'd still get 20?

How comes Nasri, Hleb, Gervinho, Rosicky, Reyes....or any wide player we've bought since the old days haven't been able to rack up the numbers? If it were that easy someone would have done it by now and those players are technically better than Theo.

I hear the criticism about his limitations but for a limited player he's doing really well and can get better. It's so ignorant to say he contributes nothing, especially when compared to past players. It was bad enough yesterday when he scored the only goal in the game that got us the 3 points. He's an unpolished player that can improve and needs to find consistency but if he finds that then we have a serious beast on our hands and it's worth persisting with him especially if we all can agree that he can improve.