Theo Walcott

Not many, but that’s not my point.
He was our longest serving player and played more than ten season and, apart from a few seasons, he was inconsistent and often injured.

Wenger stuck with him regardless of form and he was a good player when we needed far better quality.
Him being our best player means nothing if he is only adequate.
All it means is that we are lacking true quality when a player like Walcott is considered so highly in our first team.

Again with the far better quality who out there at the time was putting better numbers than him bar Messi playing on the right? A lot of you guys are confusing someone being easy on the eye as a step up. Gervinho proved that’s not the case

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We didn’t really, we needed a better centre forward and better defensive players. If we’d bought Suarez instead of Ozil, upgraded the defense and brough in a Kante, Walcott would of been more than adequete, before the injury at least

@BigWeng_4LYFE

from reddit

walcott scored 108 goals and got 78 assists which totals out at 196 goal contributions in 399 games for the club which is just under a g or a assist every other game.

you then remember he got injured a lot and made a lot of subs from the bench until he broke into the first team, so when you adjust for his 23,481 minutes, he’s actually played closer to 260.9 games rather than 399, which means he’s getting a goal or assist every 1.3 games, which is class for anyone.

You then have to remember he’s gotten goals or assists against pretty much every big teams he’s played against, and scored in two out of the two cup finals that he’s played.

Obviously, he wasn’t the greatest on the ball or most involved with the build up, but he put numbers on the board and gave this team some much needed width and penetration, which balanced out our team full of players who were sometimes too build up orientated.

tl;dr

despite not reaching (ridiculously high) expectations, walcott is still a centurion for the club so put some respekk on his name

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no

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basically Curt is vindicated

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no

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Yeah man, fuckin’ love Walcott. Very good player, sound lad too.

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Such a stat player

True, who even cares about goals and assists in football.

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There is no direct stats out there but the lack of his skillset also lead to many broken plays and attacks which could have led to goals.

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Since this got a bumped I’ll just remind everyone of this little ditty, I dunno how I do it but I’m such a visionary :joy::joy:

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God we’ve gotten to the point where @BigWeng_4LYFE and @AbouCuellar were actually right about everything they were castigated for

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It’s a real shame he can’t beat his man with anything other than pace and the fact he doesn’t have a football brain. Surprised how much we managed to get out of him.

Surprises me you back him. I actually think this guy let Wenger down so much.

Does your girlfriend know your cheating on her with an American man?

She already thinks I spend too much time with you weirdos

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That point was last year when Sanogo helped France lift the World Cup

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I think Theo had some good seasons with us, but I don’t think he ever destroyed a decent defence.

In fact, that was his part of his main limitation; his lack of decent close control meant he wasn’t that useful against a deep defence that is happy to sit there and knock back attack after attack. Something we often came up against if you recall.

I actually think Theo was a really nice finisher stylistically, but again he lacked the ability to finish ‘uglier’ goals in tighter spaces.

Pepe has far more talent in terms of close control and the ability to hold-up play on the ball than Theo ever showed for us, even at his best.

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He really was. It was Henry-like watching the way he finished sometimes. Away from the 'keeper, aim for the far post. Beaut.

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