Walcott would make a good right back.
When Welbeck got fouled by Moses he flicked the ball past him into space and was brought down… This with his pace is the sort of thing Walcott should be doing regular but his first instinct is to stop and pass sideways or backwards…
But hes got promise:wink:
Indeed. I don’t see why people chronically feel the need to go OTT with Theo. He is what he is, a wide poacher, a specialist, who has very good off the ball movement and is a decent but erratic finisher.
Welbeck is a worse finisher, and his movement is not as good (not saying Welbeck’s movement isn’t good/decent) or he’d score more goals, despite being a poor finisher.
It’s too bad Walcott basically gave up on himself as a centre forward because I think he’s a useful option to have, and would be in this system, in front of Alexis and Özil, as a CF, in certain games. That is Curt, @BigWeng_4LYFE has stumbled on some truth here.
This holding the ball up crap also has to be the most pointless discussion when it comes to CFs. We’re talking about extremely marginal benefits when it comes to Welbeck’s superior ability to ‘hold the ball up’ versus Theo’s null ability in that extremely marginal phase of the game.
I like Welbeck but the endless goodwill toward him vs. the endless bad will toward Theo is strange. Theo is the more effective player, in reality. Welbeck has some very interesting tools (one of our few players that knows how to press from the front, very nice athletic ability/presence), but as time goes on it becomes clearer that he’s just not very good. I thought, like Wenger, that he had more goals/finishing in him if given some confidence and a chance, but I’m not sure that’s a very realistic thought any more.
That is a front 3 I really don’t want to see.
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Neither are really good enough other than speedy super sub, but I’d agree Theo is probably the more suitable to this role. Ideally we get rid of several of our mediocre attackers and get a top class one, but we all know that isn’t going to happen. We will get Kolasinac, the young striker playing in Belgium, and then maybe one other late signing for depth in the middle.
This whole post goes out of the window when teams set up extremely defensively against us. Theo becomes absolutely redundant.
I’m not sure how true this is. I really doubt Theo is significantly more useless against a low block than Danny is. Would need some stats, really, to give anything more than conjecture/my instinct but I’ve always felt that the Theo is useless against a low block argument has been overstated. You see him score a number of goals against low table teams/teams that play with a low block.
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There is no space for him in our new system. Time to cash in, imo.
Well Danny can win/score headers and is more of a physical threat for a start. I believe Theo needs room to operate in otherwise he is nullified.
That’s the theory, but I don’t think there’s actually any evidence it works that way in practice.
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Most recent examples being Welbeck’s header vs United and the constant nuisance he was to Chelsea two days ago.
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Recent is an important word here. And neither of those are really low block defenses. https://www.transfermarkt.com/theo-walcott/leistungsdaten/spieler/33713 Theo’s goals this season, lots of goals there against low blocks.
We don’t have any strikers that play well against a parked bus that’s been our whole issue, by the way it’s more of a team thing than just a one player thing. Against teams that try and play football against us Theo usually causes a lot of problems.
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Especially for us. Wtf are we holding it up for exactly? Our ball holding is probably the most frustrating thing about the team.
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https://twitter.com/ArsenalTSN/status/878734171933466624
Fucking YESSSS
Take the bottler for nothing. Just get him out of Arsenal. Best bit about 3 at the back was he never played 
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West Ham have failed so much lately at trying to sign players upfront
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Don’t really rate him anymore, should go for a World Cup place
Fuck I’d love West Ham to buy him for 25 million quid or someshit.
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He’s not going to West Ham.
sell the fucker
The only hope is Wenger convinces him this new formation is here to stay, Lacazette and Welbeck are the strikers and there is literally no place for him. Then his decision should be stay and never play or go and play somewhere else.
I wonder how much England means to him because there’s no way he’s going to the World Cup if he plays 5 games this season. Defoe and Livermore etc. getting a shot shows that he could make the team if he went to someone like West Ham and was playing well.
Are West Ham going to pay him more than 100k a week?
I bet Carroll isn’t on that much.