lagos wrote:
he's staying won't win us any trophies, he's leaving won't mean we lose 4th spot. and for that reason I'm not bothered if he leaves or stays. IMHP he still doesn't deserve to be our top earner. No matter what he offersI still maintain when you are fretting over Theo Walcott or he becomes your most prized asset you know that's confirmation you are fucked up as a club!
I respect your position on Theo, but at some point you must realize not being open for anything at all means you risk looking just rigid, and all you come up with just sounds like excuses. Theo was shit for long, excruciating periods, and he didn't look at all like a natural, so both frustration and giving up any hope with him could have been understandable. But when all this doesn't let you see change, or see things for what they are (after all, there were surprises in the history of the game; he won't be the first), then your stance looks less and less reasonable.
Being our top earner is a bit of a travesty, as he surely isn't our best player. But does that really constitute a reason to not want him to sign? I think not (how?)
If he's your most prized asset, then you're fucked up as a club - we have other, more objective ways of determining if we're fucked. But anyway, this doesn't add anything of substance as a reason to not want him here.
And the VP, Nasri etc. - "won't bring us trophies, lose us 4th" is a strange claim: one player doesn't do it, but we don't build, or dismantle a team with one player moves. If there's a serious complaint we can put to the board (or whoever there) is that we don't keep building, exactly by keeping our "keeps" and adding quality to them. Wouldn't it be better if we kept VP, and added those we have? Nasri and Cesc?
We should keep Theo. I wasn't a fan in the past, but right now I think we should just stop and think: is what he's asking so absurd? isn't it just what he's worth to us? isn't it what he could get (or more) in the market? his level recently suggest we'd be absolute dickheads to let him go now.
Pay the man what he's worth, and be done with it.
