
Originally Posted by
Bergkampwonderland10
Don't remember Theo bagging too many goals last season to be fair...and his assist rate was only so high because Van Persie hit a purple patch. In fact has Walcott ever got more than 9 goals in one season? I am a fan of his (on his day especially) but it's pretty unforgivable the way he and his agents (his dad) have behaved after everything we've done for him...like Song, and Hleb he's perhaps been given the most leeway by Wenger of any player in the top half of the premiership. He wants out simple. No pat on the back for that I'm afraid - doesn't matter where he goes. 75k-80k is more than fair when you consider Arteta took a pay cut to play for us last season from 80-70K and I'm pretty sure Arteta was the slightly more important player. I reckon Theo is about to hit a peak...a bit like Aaron Lennon did for Spurs that season...he was pretty dismal at Leeds and then suddenly hit 24/25yrs old and became consistently good. 12million is what we paid Southhampton for him so anything less than 18million would be a disastrous sale imo. But looks like yet again we have no choice. Sign Sinclair, Navas, Dempsey, Tiote and we'll have an improved team imo.