Please be Walcott!
Please be Walcott!
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No chance unfortunately. FIrst up is Antonio is miles better than Walcott and doing great with them. Though they use him a lot at right back long term he'll be used at right wing and he's more than good enough to do it. He's not a terrible right back but he's cost them quite a lot as a defender while offensively he's been mostly brilliant for them.
On top of that is Walcott's wage, if we have a single shot of getting rid of him it will be some 5-10mil deal to enable a new club to match his wages. No one is buying Walcott, matching his 140k week wages and paying 20+mil on top of that. 140k is around 7mil a year, 4 year deal 28mil, he's also basically rubbish, ineffective in 9/10 games and gets injured a lot. If you remove the transfer fee there is probably some rubbish English manager at a club like Sunderland willing to buy anyone with premier league experience.
More likely to be a cheeky offer for Sturridge, maybe Berahino, zero chance of Lukaku at that kind of price, Benteke maybe though I fail to see how you would want to add Benteke to a team with Carroll in it. Welbeck... actually not impossible, he's certainly not worth a lot and a lot of people over rate him, while not very good he's still better and more effective than Walcott.
On top of that is Walcott's wage, if we have a single shot of getting rid of him it will be some 5-10mil deal to enable a new club to match his wages. No one is buying Walcott, matching his 140k week wages and paying 20+mil on top of that. 140k is around 7mil a year, 4 year deal 28mil, he's also basically rubbish, ineffective in 9/10 games and gets injured a lot. If you remove the transfer fee there is probably some rubbish English manager at a club like Sunderland willing to buy anyone with premier league experience.
More likely to be a cheeky offer for Sturridge, maybe Berahino, zero chance of Lukaku at that kind of price, Benteke maybe though I fail to see how you would want to add Benteke to a team with Carroll in it. Welbeck... actually not impossible, he's certainly not worth a lot and a lot of people over rate him, while not very good he's still better and more effective than Walcott.
Uh oh...not a good day for UTD.
Tbf, he was never going to leave Germany i don't think
Since last summer the links to Utd have dried up in regards to Hummels, I think we are more interested in Verane and /or Marquinos (sp?) , not that either are likely but who knows
I think its because anyone in the EPL and that same transfer would have cost £20m more because of the huge amounts of TV money swishing around, and if he had gone to one of the big Spanish teams it would have been for more money than BM paid (due to , at least until recently, the imbalance in how the TV money is dished out over there)
The money being rumoured for him was obscene (that Utd were meant to be initially offering at least), stupid amount of pressure would have been put on such a young kid to justify that.
Well done to BM for getting the deal across the line - hopefully he will be able to develope a little bit more out of the spotlight at his own pace, in comparison to if he had come to the EPL.
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None of that matters if Mourinho is coming in. He decided that he didn't rate Mata, so much so that he let him go to a rival team. Mourinho is far from the type that will overlook that and give him another go.
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We've been tracking Sanchez since forever too,.
Confirmed that Welbeck is out for NINE months! So, that rests on all our scoring on just Giroud now....he has what, 2-3 goals this year 
Surely we have land a big name striker (amongst other signings) this summer.......right?
Surely we have land a big name striker (amongst other signings) this summer.......right?
Arsenal's long-term injury list seems to be terrible almost every year, is that how Arsenal fans view it?
The medical staff, training staff or training surface must be contributing, it surely can't be that all your players are just prone to significant injuries?
Just seen the posts in the other thread, ignore this
The medical staff, training staff or training surface must be contributing, it surely can't be that all your players are just prone to significant injuries?
Just seen the posts in the other thread, ignore this
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That's terrible news for the rest of the footballing world. Moussa will get a decent move but the rest? I honestly don't think I've hated a player more than Gini. He's different to the quite obviously **** Williamson, Gouffran, Ameobi, etc, because he was without a doubt our best player but has absolutely bottled it. Never seen a player more invisible away from home.
I would like Lascelles to stay, that's all.
I would like Lascelles to stay, that's all.
Confirmed that Welbeck is out for NINE months! So, that rests on all our scoring on just Giroud now....he has what, 2-3 goals this year
Surely we have land a big name striker (amongst other signings) this summer.......right?
You would think so but we all know it won't happen. It will be another season of Giroud and Walcott if we don't sell him.
If West Ham were making a move for Walcott that will get sacked off now because the specialist in failure will Keep walcott due to Welbeck now being out for 9 months. Wenger will never land a top class striker. If arsenal ever want to get a sniff of the title again Wenger needs to go
well giroud has been pretty good this year with goals and whatnot. just needs more support up attack. shadow striker perhaps?
He has scored 4 premier league goals in 2016...This is a club that wants to go for the title...
No just no just no no no nooooo.
We don't need another striker, what we need is a striker with an appetite to score lots of goals. Which Giroud doesn't do and neither does Walcott or Welbz at the moment.
I hear there is a certain striker heading back to his home club from Chelsea over the summer , Arsene should get in touch (just so the rest of your strikers dont feel under pressure)
Is this a wind up?
He hasn't scored anywhere near enough, especially when you consider the players around him and his all round play is mostly garbage.
I'd love to see some offside stats as well, he seems to be continuously the wrong side.
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