Cripps wrote:theHotHead wrote:Cripps wrote:Only player we have that doesn't accept the pass pass pass crap we play.
Willing to run in behind hoping against all hope he will get a pass but look at our CMs, santi, Xhaka, elneny 3 players who can't pass forward. And thus Theo is caught offside cos the timing of the pass is shit.
Only because he has no footballing brain whatsoever. I bet he is the last pick when it comes to playing 5-a-side or 2 touch.
He's not useless, far from it, but when he is not scoring he is absolute shit and you don't even know he is playing. What do you do, you you play him and get an average goal return with half the games played as Mr Anonymous or do you admit defeat and get someone with more ability who doesn't go missing for long periods ?
Again this lack of footballing bran crap is something Hansen said and which he apologised for but it stuck.
Anyone who's seen him play, seen him make the runs he does, the space he makes for other players, arguably the brightest player we have. But people believe the media over what's actually going on on the pitch
It was Chris Waddle and he was spot on with his analysis.
Taken from the following link: https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/theo-walcott-has-no-football-brain-says-chris-waddle-6735482.html
"Waddle has serious concerns about Walcott's development, and the 49-year-old former England winger, who won 62 caps and helped Bobby Robson's team reach the 1990 World Cup semi-finals, criticised the young Gunner's knowledge of how to fill a wide role.
"People keep saying he's young but Wayne Rooney understood the game at 16, 17," Waddle said.
"I've never seen any difference in Theo Walcott since he was at Southampton and broke into the team at a very young age.
"I've never seen him develop. He just doesn't understand the game for me - where to be running, when to run inside a full-back, (when to) just play a one-two."
Speaking on BBC Radio Five Live, Waddle said: "It's all off the cuff.
"The ball comes to him and if he gets a good first touch he might be on his way if he shows pace. But he has a plan in his mind before the ball comes to him.
"He's not looking as if to think, 'This is where I want to be, this is where I want to go, and this is what I'm going to do'.
"People keep saying to me, 'Oh he's young and he'll learn'.
"I keep thinking, 'Fabregas has learnt and he's young, Rooney has learnt... they all read the game so well'.
"I just don't think he's got a football brain and he's going to have problems.
"Eventually he could play up front but would he know where to run? Let's be honest, good defenders would catch him offside every time.
"I just don't know whether he studies the game, learns the game, or what. He's at a great club where they play fantastic football week-in, week-out, and I'm just surprised he's never developed his game."
Theo does make some good runs, but the argument that he is offside because people are too slow to pass him the ball is crap. The law of averages dictates if you make enough runs you will be onside for a few of them which will make it look like - a good run. How can people say players are slow to pass the ball to him when his principle creator for the past 4 seasons has been Mesut Ozil, one of the best at what he does in the entire world !
Theo cannot play "pass pass pass" football because of his lack of footballing brain, but he can run and finish when he doesn't need to think about it .
