How many times was he offside?

Crazy how he has done so little for Everton yet would easily get a game in this squad

Was one of our most productive players in his last 2-3 years. Crazy fans still got time to slate him

You need to look at complete flops like wilshere who did fack all at Arsenal, couldn't get into the Bournemouth team and now an injury mess at West Ham.

Wilshere had to go, he has not recovered from his injuries and probably never will, but at least he was the genuine article at one point.

Walcott never was, he has blistering pace and eventually a moderate shot but nothing else and was only useful when we were well on top.

Most of the time Walcott was stealing a living & became typical of the mentally weak players Wenger preferred during the 2nd half of his reign.

Since when was wilshere the "general article"at some point??

Absolutely shocking stats for the clubs. Are we still living off that Barca game?

Both Wilshere and Walcott lived a career built on potential and promise. Eventually, of course, both outgrew potential and promise and fell flat.

You just knew that, despite a bright start at Everton, Theo's form and impact would flatten out again.

Sad to think of the players they might have become at Arsenal. But they've both done very well out of football, so I doubt either lose too much sleep over it.

Walcott was still very productive. Injuries impacted him massively

Wilshere has done nothing at Arsenal. Fans at one one point tried to compare him to Ramsey

Wallcot was productive? Yes partly but also a huge problem.

Wallcot was absolute sht in a team that was challenging for titles, even Adebayor performed better playing for such a team. If only Wenger had balls to sell and reinvest in better player would ahve that team reached its full potential...for the most part Wallcot was a liability with pace.

Bit harsh on him. Without injuries he would have been a better player. He was the typical Arsenal player where as soon as he started to look good, he got injured. He had a goood 1/2 seasons where he was very productive and got a lot of assists and decent amount of goals. But of course then he got injured and regressed again. Don’t think he ever had the Talent to live up to the media hype, but he had it in him to have a better career than he had. His injuries really didn’t help. Basically the same is true with wilshere

That injury in early 2014 ruined Theo really, was just starting to become a real figurehead for that Wenger team.

Yeah I remember him and RVP formed a great partnership at the time

Don’t see why you have dug this up. Guy Scored over 100 goals for us and in two cup finals, never the same after the ACL injury. Always scored against big teams aswell. Surely deserves some respect, as the likes of iwobi couldn’t hit a barn door. We’ve moved on, Theo has had a decent career.

The hate for Theo is pretty unreal amongst certain fans. Injuries killed the guy. When he did play he was extremely productive in goals and assist. More so than any of the other British core.

I’m always amused when people use the word “hate”, nobody “hates” Walcott, in fact in some ways you have to admire him because with limited ability and great personal PR he’s made a fortune for himself. It’s not his fault if the hapless Wenger took more than a decade to realise he wasn’t up to it.
The reason I raised this was because I thought it was interesting that exactly the same pattern of the odd goodish game followed by injury and lots of absolutely useless performances was now repeating itself at Everton.
If you don’t like that and regard it as “hate” that’s unfortunate but I won’t lose any sleep over it 😎

He's such a bizarre player. His output in terms of goals and assists is often decent, not spectacular but better than a lot of far better players in the same position.

When watching him live however there were times I honestly would say he's the worst top flight footballer I've ever seen. Touch, pass, dribbling were all often woeful but he'd still be dangerous because of his pace and decent movement with competent finishing.

Walcott > Jack Wheelchair

The latter was only decent for half an hour and lived off that. If he wasn't English, no one would have heard of him.

comment by CurrentlyInChina (U11181)
posted 32 minutes ago
Walcott > Jack Wheelchair

The latter was only decent for half an hour and lived off that. If he wasn't English, no one would have heard of him.
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Walcott certainly made more of his limited talent. Wilshere's attitude was poor, drank and smoked which will get you nowhere in modern day football unless you're very lucky. Couple that with his injuries and it's not surprising he never really made it

Always loved Theo at Arsenal. Should never have sold him. In my top 5 Arsenal players of all time.Theo, Theo, Theo.

There was a couple of times where he nearly kicked on but he should never have been at the club so long, he was lucky to play in teams that created a ton of chances. We could have sold him for top money and replaced him with a much better player but we weren't ruthless enough, same with a few other players.

comment by 8bit (U2653)
posted 54 seconds ago
There was a couple of times where he nearly kicked on but he should never have been at the club so long, he was lucky to play in teams that created a ton of chances. We could have sold him for top money and replaced him with a much better player but we weren't ruthless enough, same with a few other players.
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Wengers biggest strength was his faith in players and sadly that was also his biggest weakness.

comment by CurrentlyInChina (U11181)
posted 4 hours, 43 minutes ago
Walcott > Jack Wheelchair

The latter was only decent for half an hour and lived off that. If he wasn't English, no one would have heard of him.
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The latter lived of being English and importantly being white

Wilshere was our player of the year in his first season but he had glass ankles which ruined him. Walcott was a speed merchant with limited ability and football brain.

comment by 8bit (U2653)
posted 1 minute ago
Wilshere was our player of the year in his first season but he had glass ankles which ruined him. Walcott was a speed merchant with limited ability and football brain.
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So how did he score over 100 goals and in two finals then?!. More goals against big teams than any other player at the time he was with us. If you don’t have a football brain. You telling me all 100 goals were instinctive lol

He had decent movement and finishing as well and with his pace he was useful but basically a one trick pony getting released and using his pace. I'm not saying he was rubbish but we could have sold him and upgraded. It also took about 6 years before he became half decent, and then we got an inconsistent and injury prone player.

Dont look back.....mistakes were made and not repairable. Hope Emery does what is needed or the club let him do what is in our manager's mind.