Liverpool lured Roberto Firmino last summer for a huge fee to reinforce their attack. However, the Reds need to spend more this summer to further strengthen the department.
The Reds are once again linked with a move to sign Arsenal and England star Theo Walcott. Will he be a good addition?
The 27-year-old pacy star is a quality attacker but over the years he has been very inconsistent for the Gunners. Moreover, the constant injury concerns have not helped him as well.
Last season, the former Southampton winger featured in 42 games for the North Londoners and directly contributed in no fewer than 16 goals (9 goals and 7 assists). Overall, Theo has netted 102 goals in his career so far (Transfermarkt).
Back in 2011, Barcelona and Argentina superstar Lionel Messi heavily praised Walcott when the Catalan giants faced the Gunners in the Champions League.
Messi claimed (Telegraph):
“I can only speak from experience but he was one of the most dangerous players I have ever played against,”
With Coutinho and Firmino starting in the central and left attacking midfield roles for the Reds, Theo will mainly start on the right wing if he does end up moving to Anfield.
Here is how Liverpool will line up with Theo Walcott.
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Walcott never stops whingeing to Arsenal that he wants to play as a central striker and not as a winger so how are we supposed to tell him that, unfortunately, we don’t see him as a striker – and his stats don’t see him as a striker either – and his remaining career is to be spent on the wing? Dummy after dummy hurled out of the pram, sad face on 24/7. He’ll be in Klopp’s office every day asking to be played as a striker.
He always had potential but never realised that potential. Sorry, that’s the basic truth whether he likes it or not.
having Theo Walcott will be a good addition, but still need Piotr zielinski in our team with one more finisher.
he will be a good addition, he is an upgrade of lallana. The only problem here is his injury crisis which however have negatively affected his consistency level.
On another website it implies that Luciano Vietto might be available! Remember him? A year or so ago we went head to head with Atletico to sign him from Villarreal and when we saw videos of him he looked superb for one so young.
Unfortunately, we dawdled too much and he went to Atletico and has spent much of this season on the bench owing to the superb team they’ve got.
Now, because he’s still got that promise, and could be made available, I think it’s worth us trying to get him for slightly less than the £15m he cost Atletico. He got a lot of goals for Villarreal in his first season there and you don’t lose that sort of skill with one iffy season when you are struggling to get past seriously good players at a club that reached the CL final! Certainly as good as any other young player likely to become available.