Theo Walcott
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Funny how players always get injured when there is a friendly coming up.
Like he wasn't at euro 2012, bar milner only player worth watching amongst the dross.
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Arsenal should keep hold of him if RVP goes..........
Is he seriously suggesting that Milner was anything other than a waste of a player?
Oh dear
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yep!!! Agreed. no doubt he is good, but he has not lived up to his full potential, and that's coming from a solid Gunners fan. its one thing having speed, but with no reliable end product its useless!
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Actually the more I see him play the more I'm convinced he often knows what to do but is the laziest player in football. Rather than kick the ball long and run after it beating someone on pace, he tries to go 4 inches around someone not as fast and loses the ball. He gets the ball on the wing and will SO often have plenty of space to run into but a player closing him and he just turns and passes it to the right back or into central midfield... its like he looks at the effort required, weighs it up and gives up. If he see's a long ball he can get onto inside the box without going shoulder to shoulder with someone suddenly and for the only time in a game he'll make the effort.
It comes across like he's made a list of things that are worth bothering with and a HUGE list of things where he passes off the work to everyone else.
He's just one of the laziest people I've ever seen, unwilling to get in a fight for the ball, unwilling to work hard, even when there is a break on the other side of the pitch and no one is near him, you rarely if ever see him arrive in the box despite being one of the fastest guys on the pitch again its like he's decided that ball isn't likely to get to him so why bother getting in position in the box. Freddie wasn't that fast, but if there was a 0.5% chance a ball might make it to the far post he'd break his neck running with a counter attack and get a tap in goal. A slow player that is willing to work is infinitely more useful than a fast guy who is lazy.
Anyway, he's completely worthless to have at Arsenal, doesn't turn up in big games, doesn't turn up in more than a handful of games a season, workrate is truly pathetic and if/when he's against a team with a solid left back he's completely nullified. 20k a week backup player to play against weak teams, sure, 100k a week first team player..... lol
It comes across like he's made a list of things that are worth bothering with and a HUGE list of things where he passes off the work to everyone else.
He's just one of the laziest people I've ever seen, unwilling to get in a fight for the ball, unwilling to work hard, even when there is a break on the other side of the pitch and no one is near him, you rarely if ever see him arrive in the box despite being one of the fastest guys on the pitch again its like he's decided that ball isn't likely to get to him so why bother getting in position in the box. Freddie wasn't that fast, but if there was a 0.5% chance a ball might make it to the far post he'd break his neck running with a counter attack and get a tap in goal. A slow player that is willing to work is infinitely more useful than a fast guy who is lazy.
Anyway, he's completely worthless to have at Arsenal, doesn't turn up in big games, doesn't turn up in more than a handful of games a season, workrate is truly pathetic and if/when he's against a team with a solid left back he's completely nullified. 20k a week backup player to play against weak teams, sure, 100k a week first team player..... lol
I'm pretty sure he is one of the highest midfield scorers and assisters over the last 2 years. Having no footballing brain is something a ex pro said which everyone else has jumped all over. He has performed in big games, AC Milan, Tottenham just to name 2 without even thinking about it. Yes he is frustrating occasionaly, name me a winger that isn't but his game has improved dramaticaly and i think we'd be silly to let him go.
24 goals netted in all competitions last season is a pretty good return for a midfielder and he was the 5th best points scoring midfielder last season in the official Fantasy League which is reflected in his £9.0 price this season. He rarely gets booked either. I think he would be better playing in a more central position, possibly even as a CF. Wenger puts him on the wing because of his pace i think. it will be an interesting season, especially if Wenger decides NOT to buy a replacement for RvP.
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That would be a truly epic stat, 24 goals in all competitions.. really? Well, no, he got 9 goals in all competitions, which isn't quite as good. Also, stats are good, stats + knowledge is better. For Walcott the large majority of his goals and assists usually come against the worst teams, and for him its usually a hattrick of assists of goals against a team performing laughably badly in their worst game of the season, Blackburn, Blackpool, Spurs in the game they couldn't remember how to pass, etc, etc.
Its the fact that for 89minutes he does nothing, and 1 minute gets on the end of the rest of the teams 89mins of hard work and runs after something and gets a goal. That isn't an entirely awful thing to have at a club, effective is useful, but effective and an actual great footballer is what wins you titles, loads of goals and assists, but no consistency, lazyness and generally not turning up against the big teams and you end up Walcott.
If Walcott were at say, Blackburn, he'd have maybe scraped a few goals last year, nothing else.
The chances the team lay up for him, a better player would score more, a better player would get at least the same goals/assists, and do more to hold possession, defend, win the ball back and win games. Walcott because he's got incredible speed and because some moron plays him at a top 4 club, WILL score, will assist, almost any person who can stand upright would, none of these things makes him a great player. Pires scored more, assisted more, had very little pace, was all about ability, we won things, he worked his ass off, Walcott uses his one gift to get mediocre results.
Its as simple as this, number of times I've seen Messi have a poor game and said to myself, or an entire fan base says to themselves "Why on earth is he at the club", none, Arshavin, none, RVP, none, Cesc, none, Theo, everyone thinks it every other game, because that is actually how completely annonymous and pointless he is SO freaking often.
I'd take a player who is decent and works hard for 90mins every single game and scores and assists nothing, than one who gets 20 goals, 20 assists, in 10 games and is utterly awful in the other 30 games he plays a season... i'd also take a guy like the first one, who gets 20 goals before both the others. To win titles you need players who at their worst... aren't attrocious, you don't even need players who at their best are the best in the world. Milner is almost never exceptional, but he's almost never terrible, Fletcher was never ever brilliant, he always worked for 90mins, made the other team's job harder and made his teams job easier, there are a whole raft of average players at clubs that win titles... the thing they all have in common is they are rarely if ever completely awful.
Arsenal's biggest fault is not that their best players aren't good enough, its that their worst players are THAT bad THAT often. You can not and will not win titles with players that only show up for 1/4 of the games they play.
When Cesc didn't score or assist(rarely) he was still usually the single best player on the pitch, passing, movement, defending, attack, possession, work rate, everything. When Theo isn't scoring or assisting, he's litterally worthless.
Its the fact that for 89minutes he does nothing, and 1 minute gets on the end of the rest of the teams 89mins of hard work and runs after something and gets a goal. That isn't an entirely awful thing to have at a club, effective is useful, but effective and an actual great footballer is what wins you titles, loads of goals and assists, but no consistency, lazyness and generally not turning up against the big teams and you end up Walcott.
If Walcott were at say, Blackburn, he'd have maybe scraped a few goals last year, nothing else.
The chances the team lay up for him, a better player would score more, a better player would get at least the same goals/assists, and do more to hold possession, defend, win the ball back and win games. Walcott because he's got incredible speed and because some moron plays him at a top 4 club, WILL score, will assist, almost any person who can stand upright would, none of these things makes him a great player. Pires scored more, assisted more, had very little pace, was all about ability, we won things, he worked his ass off, Walcott uses his one gift to get mediocre results.
Its as simple as this, number of times I've seen Messi have a poor game and said to myself, or an entire fan base says to themselves "Why on earth is he at the club", none, Arshavin, none, RVP, none, Cesc, none, Theo, everyone thinks it every other game, because that is actually how completely annonymous and pointless he is SO freaking often.
I'd take a player who is decent and works hard for 90mins every single game and scores and assists nothing, than one who gets 20 goals, 20 assists, in 10 games and is utterly awful in the other 30 games he plays a season... i'd also take a guy like the first one, who gets 20 goals before both the others. To win titles you need players who at their worst... aren't attrocious, you don't even need players who at their best are the best in the world. Milner is almost never exceptional, but he's almost never terrible, Fletcher was never ever brilliant, he always worked for 90mins, made the other team's job harder and made his teams job easier, there are a whole raft of average players at clubs that win titles... the thing they all have in common is they are rarely if ever completely awful.
Arsenal's biggest fault is not that their best players aren't good enough, its that their worst players are THAT bad THAT often. You can not and will not win titles with players that only show up for 1/4 of the games they play.
When Cesc didn't score or assist(rarely) he was still usually the single best player on the pitch, passing, movement, defending, attack, possession, work rate, everything. When Theo isn't scoring or assisting, he's litterally worthless.
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I hope that's a joke that nobody gets frustrated with Arshavin. He's a far more frustrating player than Theo. Arshavin, on his day, is as good as any player we've had at the club for the last 4-5 years, but how many times did he actually perform? I'd take Theo over him any day of the week.
I'd still like to see Theo moved into the centre, in a Michael Owen role. He's got the pace, can score and frightens the life out defenders at times. His distribution at times can be decidedly dodgy, so play him down the middle and let others provide the supply.