Transfer Rumours Saint Theo!

It was a joke. We gave up that sell on very early doors.

 

Surely if we are looking to spend £30 million on a striker there must be better options than Walcott around? After all, Mo Salah only cost Liverpool £27 million and they’re **** at scouting.

 

How much did Everton pay for Sigurdsson? And how are Swansea doing without him?

The market has gone mad. That's how it is. Of course, we could shop in the bargain bins as usual, and hope to get lucky. Or we could take a punt on a proven PL player who, imo, could make all the difference between staying up and going down.

 

surely if we are looking to spend £30 million on a striker there must be better options than Walcott around? After all, Mo Salah only cost Liverpool £27 million

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37, but you are right, much better options out there.

 

£15m fee
£5m if we stay up
£5m if he scores 10 before the season end
£5m if he plays 30 games next season

Seems reasonable. Where do I sign?

 

Sigurdsson is better, slightly younger, and with a far better record of health.

Walcott is nearly 29, oft-injured, and has 50 minutes of PL action this season.


We have multiple needs that we will need to address if we're to stay up. We're not going to spend the full 60m this window: we have already said as much. If we spend 30m on Walcott, that means we will have little to nothing to spend on a CB, on a number 10 type, whatever. Our window then becomes Walcott plus a backup calibre loan at some position. That's not going to do it..he's not a superstar.

 

Not at Arsenal he isn't. For us he could be. And how we need a Superstar now.

 

You wouldn't want him for 30 though, would you?

 

Depends on the deal. I was tongue in cheek with my proposal, but makes sense.

 

Betting our whole transfer window on Theo Walcott being a superstar -- and eschewing all of our other needs -- strikes me as madness. I like Theo; I'd be happy to have him back. He's not that.

 

Like, our biggest problem in attack is that no one seems to look for the killer pass when our strikers make runs. So we're going to spend every cent we have on a player whose effectiveness is almost wholly dependent on being picked out when he makes a run through the defense.

 

He's a posh Shane Long, he'd make runs and we'd ignore him.

 

We're not paying that, and if we did it wouldn't be my money so I'm not overly concerned about his fee.

I think he's exactly what we need, if we could keep him fit. A striker with the pace to terrify defenders - who actually SCORES GOALS. But no, let's just assume we can't afford him.

 

£40M on Girioud. Meet you half way.......

 

Shane Long makes runs, gets ion behind, hoofs it over the bar.

Theo makes runs, gets in behind, and scores.

Scoring goals. It's what we can't seem to do - not just because no one sees Gabbi's runs; but also because we have no one who is a) mobile, b) strong, and c) a finisher.

 

When did I say spend everything we have on Theo? He wouldn't be £30 million, certainly not up front.

I like Fats' costings.

 

In fairness, I don’t believe a word of that.

 

Let's face it, we're not gonna get him for free-o.

 

We'd all do it for that. Again, I have no problem spending 15m on him, or 20 with incentives. But no deal ever involves incentives approaching 50% of the total value...if they're looking for 30m, they're going to want the vast majority of that up front.

 

Actually a lot Of deals are not near the total.

Two quick examples:

Theo Walcott £10m; £5m upfront
Gareth Bale £12m; £6m upfront.