Arsenal: No conceivable price is too low for Theo Walcott

Arsenal may be given a chance to sell Theo Walcott in January, which should be met with open arms no matter what the return.

My love/hate relationship with Theo Walcott has been a hell of a lot more hate than love in recent months/years. The longest-tenured Arsenal man has been on a steady decline for awhile now, but he has been essentially shut out of all future prospects with the introduction of the 3-4-3.

And yet he remains.

To his credit, his ability in the secondary competitions has been a welcome presence. But you can’t tell me that whatever he is doing can’t be replicated by the likes of Reiss Nelson, who deserves to be pushed farther forward.

Or Jeff Reine-Adelaide for that matter, who is on his way back to first-team relevance as he recovers for injury. These two are the future of the club. Walcott is the past before the past. He is past his time and any further time spent at the Emirates is unnecessary.

I hate to sound so cruel, but we need to be practical here. Arsenal are already going to be losing Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez for either an incredibly cut fee or, worse for free. Yet Arsene Wenger is out here telling us that it will cost £60-70m to recoup losing Alexis alone.

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That money has to come from somewhere and, in case you haven’t been paying attention, it sure as hell isn’t going to come from Stan Kroenke. Not a chance.

Walcott is another option to raise the funds, and it can come from a non-necessity. Which makes it an overwhelming positive for the club, and for Walcott himself, who really needs to start doing something if he wants to play in the World Cup, which is quickly approaching with little to no assertion from him.

The reason why I say that no conceivable price for Walcott is too low is because of that key word “conceivable.”

Obviously no one is going to offer £200k for the guy. That’s insulting. But if Inter Milan really are interested in the diminishing Englishman, then it’s completely reasonable to think that they could offer between £10-15m, which, in my humble opinion, is a perfectly reasonable price when trying to recoup what we are going to be losing.

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Call it fuel for the Thomas Lemar fund. And while we wait for the remainder of the funds, Nelson and Reine-Adelaide can cover for whatever it is that Walcott provided for us.

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