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Time for Arsenal to cash in on Average Oxlade-Chamberlain

If Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain wants out, I will happily open the door the door and see him on his way. I will even get him a black cab to take him to Chelsea, although he can pay for it himself.

You see, Ox is one of these players who has always thought he was better than what he is.

Always on Instagram and Twitter, making jokes with fellow under achievers Carl Jenkinson and Calum Chambers. He thinks he is a celebrity, what with his girlfriend from Little Mix and going to music award shows and hanging out the back of VIP tents.

His wannabe celebrity status comes through in the way he plays. Always trying to do the difficult things. Trying to be Superman. He wishes he was Alexis Sanchez, but he is not.

I for one will not miss him beating 3 men, only to run the ball out of play, or getting into a great position, only to stick his cross out for a throw in from the other side of the pitch.

He also suffers from the English disease bought to the game by David Beckham, and reinforced by Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard. He always wants to play that Hollywood, pinged cross field ball with loads of backspin that drops out of the sky and lands at the foot of his opposing winger. But he is not Becks. He can not play this. And it usually ends up hoofed out of play.

Then there is his shooting. How often have we been in a good position, the ball lands to Ox, and he takes a long run up, and sticks one into the stands?

Some will say at least he has a go from distance and this would be the right thought process, if he actually got a few of them to hit the back of the net. He has scored just 9 league goals in his time at Arsenal. 9 goals in 6 years in the Premier League.

Against Stoke last weekend was the perfect example of what I am getting at.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain had 3 shots in that game. All from outside the area. None forced the keeper into a save. What is the point?

His goal scoring record is piss poor, taking into account people go on so much about his great technique. In al competitions, he has scored 20 goals for Arsenal. That is 20 goals in 196 games. In comparison, Theo Walcott scored 19 goals last season.

A 1 in 10 record is just very poor for a winger. That is probably why he has found himself at right wing back.

In his time at Arsenal, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has barely played 6 games in a row, due to fitness issues, let alone put half a dozen good games together.

At the back end of last season, and beginning of this, he has improved, playing at right wing back. He looks suited to the position. But it has clearly bashed his ego.

He sees himself as an Alexis Sanchez, being the dribbling creator, getting all the plaudits. He believes he should be playing central midfield, or attacking midfield. But he is simply not good enough in either of these position.

So he wants to leave us, not about money, but about progressing his career. I would usually think fair enough but it just highlights his delusion.

He thinks he will go to Chelsea and be a regular starter. He will. At right wing back. If he wants to play further central, he will soon find himself on the bench, behind proper decent players like Kante and Hazard.

At Liverpool, he would be taking a step down. OK, they finished above us last season by a single point, but the Scousers have won 1 League Cup in 10 years. He certainly will not be going there to win things.

And when you look at the Liverpool side, is he any better than Sadio Mane, Adam Lallana or Mo Salah? Clearly not. Further back, I struggle to see how he would get in ahead of Georginio Wijnaldum or Emre Can.

Oxlade-Chamberlain is like the employee who thinks he is brilliant, gets hot air blown up them by a recruitment consultant, so leaves. He go’s elsewhere thinking he is the dogs bollocks, but soon finds out that he is not. That he is distinctly average. That is lack of performance is down to him, not his company.

Ox, if you want to go to further your career, good luck. But you Arsenal will probably have been your peak.

The Ox….

— 🎗 ///SHE WORE/// 🎗 (@SheWore) August 25, 2017

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— 🎗 ///SHE WORE/// 🎗 (@SheWore) August 21, 2017

Theo Walcott – Not simply the best, but maybe better than all the rest?

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So yesterday’s blog bought out a response from someone on the She Wore Facebook page with regards to Theo Walcott. And that comment has inspired this blog.

The comment was a simple one. That of all of the players mentioned in yesterday’s blog, Walcott was the biggest freeloader.

I responded in my usual matter of fact way; 19 goals last year. Walcott is a better winger than Ox, Welbeck, Perez or Joel Campbell.

The response from someone was as expected. Are you having a laugh???

No, I was not having a laugh. Theo Walcott, whilst he might not be mine or anyone’s full cup of tea, is the better than those others named above.

Theo Walcott knows where the net is. Not too many wide men outscored him last year. Just the top, top players. The likes of Eden Hazard and Alexis Sanchez.

He has scored 104 goals in 381 games for Arsenal. That is a better ratio than Freddie Ljungberg. Add in the goals for Southampton in the Championship, Walcott scores a 1 goal in every 3.7 games.

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has always flattered to deceive. He has the ability to beat players for fun, but then will run to the corner flag and stick one into row Z. He is currently loving the celebrity life style, and is acting Hollywood on the pitch.

The simple fact is, he does not have any end product. In his entire career for Arsenal, he has scored just 20 goals. Just one more goal than Theo Walcott scored last season. 20 goals in 196 games. Add the goals in League One for Southampton, he has scored a massive 30 goals in 239 games. That is 1 in 8.

One player who will always frustrate everyone is Danny Welbeck. He has the pace, he has the power, he looks like an elegant gazelle when running. But put him in front of goal and he looks like Bambi.

Twice against Stoke City at the weekend he had the ball with the goal in front of him. Both times he took 3 touches of the ball and failed to get a shot off. You can not take 3 touches of the ball in the box in the Premier League and fail to get a shot off.

Even when he scored against Leicester, he needed 3 touches of the ball. And that was 3 years out, with an open goal.

When we signed Welbeck from Man U, there fans told us exactly what it was we were getting. A player who was class until he had to score. It is crazy to think he has scored just 55 goals in his career, at a ratio of 1 in 4.5.

Then we come to Joel Campbell. Has there ever been a player who has produced so little who ends up so highly rated by many? He certainly falls into the category of “Wenger does not rate him, so lets rate him, because we refuse to agree with Wenger”.

Joel Campbell is now 25 years old. He is no a youngster anymore. He joined Arsenal back in 2011 and has scored just 4 goals for the club.

In his defence, he has spent most of that time on loan throughout Europe. But lets be honest, he has not exactly set the world alight whilst on loan.

He scored a couple of world class goals for Olympiacos back in the day, but it has been a career of averageness.

Let me but it another way, if Arsenal were interested in signing a 25 year old winger from sporting Lisbon who last season struggled to start for them – just 7 league starts, would you be excited, or would you be screaming for Wenger to go?

It would be the later.

During his loan spell at Lisbon last season, he scored 3 goals in all competitions. This bought his career total to 25 goals in 200 games. A fantastic 1 in 8.

Lastly we have Lucas Perez. A player who some feel has not had his chance. The truth is different.

Perez scored against Sutton (it was a cross), Basel, Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth. Not exactly giants of the game are they?

Perez is a journeyman. A career that has taken him from Spain to Ukraine, on to Greece, back to Spain, then North London. 4 years playing in average Eastern European leagues did not get him the goals you would expect.

Only twice has he ever hit more than 10 goals in a season. The first was for PAOK in Greece. The second was the year he before he joined Arsenal .He scored 17 goals for Deportivo in 2015/16. That is 2 less than Walcott scored for Arsenal last season.

His record of 1 in 3.4 is superior to Walcott, but he has played in defensively inferior leagues.

If you look at just the last 5 years for Walcott – he was a very slow starter – his goal scoring record is one goal ever 2.5 games.