Wenger to See if Someone Else Can Fix Theo Walcott
By: Daryl | January 25th, 2008
Remember 2006? Theo Walcott probably does. He was the toast of England after being signed by Arsenal as a teenager and then named him to Sven’s England’s World Cup squad on the advice of Arsene Wenger. The future looked not just bright for Walcott, it looked blinding. He’d probably win England the World Cup all on his own.
He didn’t of course (he never left the bench) and now Walcott’s future looks a bit dull. His two years (yep, it’s been that long already) at Arsenal have yielded a handful of half-decent cameos and no Premier League goals. Wenger - supposedly THE man when it comes to developing young talent - has already made it known that Walcott isn’t progressing as expected. And now he wants to send the lad out on loan somewhere.
Walcott played in Arsenal’s Carling Cup disaster against Spurs and didn’t do a great deal, so now it seems Wenger has given up on nurturing him through the first team. “There is a gap here between playing in the reserves and our first team. So I try to loan them to another club, to get them ready.” And by “them” he means players not good enough for the first team, putting Walcott in the same precarious boat as all the other youngsters at Arsenal. Ouchy.
So where will Theo go? Apparently Wenger wants to loan Walcott out to a team where he’ll play regularly and play as a striker, not out wide. I know a good place: how about Southampton? Walcott was developing very nicely and fairly quietly there until Wenger thrust one spotlight on him with a big money transfer and then another by fooling Sven into taking the lad to Germany.
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ireally think this is all just a bunch of speculation. i mean i know, wenger is great with nurturing young talent but this is still only theo’s second season (and the first one was cut short). loaning him out with 5 days left in the transfer window when you’re already kinda thin at striker doesn’t make much sense. theo is just the scapegoat for wednesday’s horrible horrible showing.
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