Walcott, one egg in one basket.

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He cannot play alone, and he needs the right balls fed to him.

Plus he is still quite young. If he can hold it together for the next few years he might be a real good player.

What stood out for me in last nights game was poor selection and strange tactics.

The Germans were physically superior to Arsenal. While size is not everything, that only really matters is you have the quality of Barca.

The midfield trio of Cazorla, Arteta and Wilshere are lightweight. I would have thought Diaby would have been a better choice in there somewhere.

Wide positions - Ramsey & Podolski. No pace whatsoever. No trickery. Easily nullified.

Full backs, while Sangna was willing to overlap, he is not the player he was. Looks clueless on the ball and never got a cross in and lost possession a lot. A poor attacking FB overlapping a poor wide player was very easily dealt with by the German defence.

On the other side, TV5 did not get forward at all, and he's a CB so does not have the speed, agility or expertise to be effective in this position.

Last but not least, Walcott up front. Did he touch the ball. Why did AW take so long to change that. Within minutes of him introducing Giroud, Wlacott beat his man out wide, put in a cross & Giroud should have scored.

This was the home leg. The formation and strategy had no width, no power, no pace, no penetration. It relied on tippy-tappy up the pitch and they never managed to break down the very impressive German defence & hard working midfield.

Bayern showed 2 things....you can combine the ball retention of the Spanish game and blend it with the physical and more direct approach of the EPL and produce effective attacking entertaining football....this is what Arsenal should be doing instead of building a team that would do ok in the Spanish league.

2nd, the energy of the Bayern team in closing down Arsenal was very impressive and it put Arsenal to shame, as they gave Bayern all the time they wanted on the ball.

After all the years Walcotts had at Arsenal, Wenger still don't know how to get the best out of him, he is approaching his mid 20's when he should be at his prime. Walcott never seems to show the instinct that make good players great £100,000 per week players. Last night he was supposed to run rings around the 2 slow Munich centre backs in reality he never got a look in although he did pick out Giroud when he moved to the wing, which is probably his best position.

Devonshirespur - Spot on.

Let's not overlook this Bayern team is special, very special and I'd happily put money on them to turn over Utd, City, Chelsea right now.

But last night was a big occasion and whilst Bayern were understandably favourites, the tactics used pretty much killed the game by half time.

Our problem have not been our signings, its been the constant revolving doors of top level players who leave the club. We never build on the quality we have and that is where we are coming up short. We would not need to keep investing heavily on numbers (as we are not Chelsea or City) every year if we kept our better players. Once Henry left we should have drawn a line in the sand and said we will be keeping our best players even if they refuse to sign but also make reasonable investment every year to the squad which would eventually pay off and may convince our better players to stay as well as pay them a reasonable going rate.

So with that in mind this time last season we would of had a squad that still contained the likes of Adebayor, Nasri, Clichy, Cesc, RVP and Song which would have been bolstered by with the arrivals of Arteta, Merts, Santos, Gervinho and Ox along with existing young talent of Ramsey, Theo and Gibbs. With squad with that much depth would have put us a lot closer to the top of the EPL and with the signing that were made since then of Santi, Poldi, Giroud and Nacho would have given us a squad of such depth that we could also change formation when a plan B was required.

We may not be buying £30M players and never will be, but at least keep our stars and buy 2 £20M or 3 players around the £15M and cut away the fringe players to improve the squad each year and we will be there or thereabouts, but with the current state of play with more money going around then our time at the top table could become a distant memory.

WHY DID WE SELL HENRY? He was tied for 3 years and we sold him for £18m

THIERRY HENRY SOLD FOR LESS THAN STEWART DOWNING

Maybe we did play a little bit better without him initially, but £18m

You can't blame Wenger on not knowing Theo's best position. Fact is theo is inconsistent wherever he plays.

Walcott looks good until you put a player of the opposing team in front of him, then he has no Plan B.