He's not going to get much game time this year and he's going to have to earn it. Not sure he realises that fully

Well, I'd imagine he's more likely to contribute from the wing (with Ozil playing him in) then as a CF.

But fuck me, now you accept that?

Wenger putting this idiot on a 140k a week contract sums up why he's finished as a manager. He watched him play every day and still saw fit to make an incredibly ordinary footballer our 3rd highest paid player.

Good luck getting him off our books.

Good he's a decent wing forward. Just leave him there. Preferably not as first choice.

marv3llous wrote:

... this fucking guy is unbelievable really. He really is mugging us all off with this shit. For 10 years Wenger has persisted with him, while clearly he is a spoiled brat who regards himself over the team.

Walcott: "I have told the manager that I want to be known for playing on the right again, although I can play up front"

I'd call this humility, Walcott style. Bench him if we can't sell him.

just seeing walcott's face angers me at this point. i really wish we could sell him and get anything for him

"Nobody wants to sign me, i'll be a winger"

Don't know how Wenger/club management was taken in by this fraud.

Burnwinter wrote:

marv3llous wrote:

... this fucking guy is unbelievable really. He really is mugging us all off with this shit. For 10 years Wenger has persisted with him, while clearly he is a spoiled brat who regards himself over the team.

I'd call this humility, Walcott style. Bench him if we can't sell him.

Squad player on 140k a week?

pricey guy to have on the bench, which is where he should be. him and his agent played a blinder with that last contract negotiation

mdgoonah41 wrote:

just seeing walcott's face angers me at this point. i really wish we could sell him and get anything for him

This.

Haha

He needs to first get his shit together.

Did he say winger or whiner?

Jed wrote:

Squad player on 140k a week?

Look, I'd like to sell him but we can't sever our legal obligations, and no one else would want him at that price right now.

It was a little bit understandable at the time he signed, he's just had such bad performances over the last six months it's becoming unbearable. But don't forget 140k/week over a year is only a minor chunk of the transfer fee for any sort of decent wide player now.

There will always be contracts we wish we didn't have, and those we're lucky to have.

i hate him and the asshat leader of the club who thought this piece of shit was worth the effort.

Gazza M wrote:

pricey guy to have on the bench, which is where he should be. him and his agent played a blinder with that last contract negotiation

not really. that contract fell in their lap once we had cleared out all of our superstars. we had no choice but to extend him and have a good news story given the circumstances. 
as i said before, comfortably the worst player we've endured all these years given how much game time he's had. 

I'm not sure that's what he actually said - the article is awful.