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Source: Pink Football
Arsene Wenger's frustration with the slow development of once-teen sensation Theo Walcott may lead the Arsenal boss to send his young forward out on loan.
Walcott, who joined the Gunners from Southampton for £12 million at the age of 16, has so far failed to fulfill his potential. Another damningly marginal performance in Tuesday's 5-1 Carling Cup thrashing at White Hart Lane may prove decisive in Walcott's immediate future at Arsenal.
Wenger had already admitted the previous week that the young Englishman has not made the progress expected of him.
"There is a gap here between playing in the reserves and our first team. So I try to loan them to another club, to get them ready," said Wenger.
Yet it remains to be seen whether a loan spell would bring Walcott upto Arsenal first-team standards. The frustration of returning to the Arsenal reserves once given a taste for regular first-team football has led many a Gunners loanee to make the move permanent.
Arsene Wenger's frustration with the slow development of once-teen sensation Theo Walcott may lead the Arsenal boss to send his young forward out on loan.
Walcott, who joined the Gunners from Southampton for £12 million at the age of 16, has so far failed to fulfill his potential. Another damningly marginal performance in Tuesday's 5-1 Carling Cup thrashing at White Hart Lane may prove decisive in Walcott's immediate future at Arsenal.
Wenger had already admitted the previous week that the young Englishman has not made the progress expected of him.
"There is a gap here between playing in the reserves and our first team. So I try to loan them to another club, to get them ready," said Wenger.
Yet it remains to be seen whether a loan spell would bring Walcott upto Arsenal first-team standards. The frustration of returning to the Arsenal reserves once given a taste for regular first-team football has led many a Gunners loanee to make the move permanent.
