Walcott going would be great for Arsenal, I'll point out again that Walcott has had nothing but support and backing by Wenger, being played game after game, Vela who also arrived as a striker, also got pushed out to the wing, got a grand total of something like 400 minutes in the premier league, across 2 seasons, and a cup game a couple months apart, and his premier league games were usual 2-3 minutes at the end of games.
he had no form, no confidence, certainly no backing, scored the best hattrick Arsenal had seen for a freaking age then disappeared from the team for ages, and yet Vela has after a short while finding his legs, performed incredibly well this season in La Liga for a not very good team. Too often what happens is a player plays, for youth sides, for reserves, or at other clubs week in week out, then they come, get ignored and lose all form, then get ignored when they can't play at their best for 5 mins at the end of a game? As Vela has shown, a short run of games, fitness, match sharpness and form coming back and he's had a great season. The other problem for him is he appeared so many times on the bench, when you do that, you aren't even making appearances in reserve games. How many times have LOADS of clubs seen a youth player promoted, look great for a couple games then progressively worse as they ride the bench rather than playing reserve games(AOC, Macheda, big impact on first appearances, worse as their bench riding goes on ).
I'd take Vela over Walcott in a heartbeat, he's not the worlds best player, he's very solid, he's absolutely miles better than Walcott who is simply ****. Overmars, Pires, Freddie, Reyes, to Walcott and Gervinho,
As for RVP, no, 25mil now and we can afford a great replacement, or no money next year, RVP still gone and we can't afford a great replacement, its not a choice, the ONLY sensible option is selling.
RVP is going either way, one way you can buy a real replacement, the other way you end up taking a HUGE risk on a cheap striker. That wouldn't be bad in Arsenal's 2004 team, if you buy in a 10mil or less striker and he fails, you had goals from Pires, goals from all over the pitch AND other strikers and a strong bench.
We lose RVP, the team relies on his goals because Wenger has slowly destroyed the team in quality. The old side, had we lost Henry we didn't have a player capable of replacing ALL his goals but we had a team capable of replacing some and other strikers capable of replacing the rest. The way the team is now, lose RVP and we HAVE to get a striker who can score 20+ goals, and you might get lucky on a 10mil player like Cisse, but that is a big gamble for Arsenal, while going for someone top draw would cost a lot of money.
The reason RVP will go, there is simply only so many seasons you can trot out the "look we're spending, we'll compete next year" line.
We started it with Henry and telling him we'd compete for the champs league, Wenger promised improvements and being competitive for the past 4 years to get Cesc, RVP to sign contracts before, there hasn't been the slightest bit of improvement. He's too old to wait out another 3-4 year contract and hope to get picked up by a title winning team at 30+, its now or never for him, so it will be now.
