"He hasn't evolved as a player!" | Rio Ferdinand says Theo Walcott hasn't lived up to the hype
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- čas přidán 13. 01. 2018
- Went to the 2006 World Cup as a 17 year old, youngest player to score a hat-trick for England, leaving Arsenal for Everton... Where did it all go wrong for Theo Walcott?
Rio Ferdinand, Glenn Hoddle and Jermaine Jenas discuss the career of Theo Walcott.
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This is why Ox left. He realised he hardly developed in all his years at Arsenal. Goes to Liverpool and within 5 months he already looks a better player.
splinter360 no he doesnt
Zip it up yes he does
No he was actually just starting to look good for Arsenal but at right wing back lo
It's just a honeymoon period for ox at Liverpool. as a lifelong arsenal fan we have seen ox put on displays where is almost unplayable, but he is not consistent at all. Liverpool fans will realise this with time.
He’s had one half decent game ffs... 😂😂😂
Ox did the right thing and got out in time.
Oliver 2000 Whose status? Ox? And whose eyes, Arsenal fans? Come now. I doubt he cares what they think down there in 6th. He's already having his best goal scoring season ever in the Prem and that's in his first 5 months at Liverpool.
And now here we go with the liverpool fans thinking they are the best team again because they are doing "alright" right now. Jesus christ cheers for the 40 mil for chamberlain
nope but no problem, well spent money!
bellers01 not like Arsenal will spend it for any good players
Jokes that he scored a worldie vs City today aswell😂 would not have done that at arsenal
Walcott was born offside
Troopz
Stolen
Never once did I claim the joke
That was what sir Alex Ferguson said about Filippo Inzaghi. "That lad must have been born offside."
Harjot Sandhu 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣. Solid!!!!!
An English player hasn’t lived up to the hype ??!!?!! Shock 😂😂😂
Ben Holland haha!
The sarcasm is too much
Ben Holland Yh ikr coz Harry Kane defo isn't top domestic scorer in all of Europe
Ben Holland Rooney???
Ro Na as manchester united fan, no rooney not, we except more, that last 3 seasson in club he could thank just to that hype. /i like him and i am thankfull for all he done but let's be honest we except more/
Walcott should go to Celtic. He will score an insane amount of goals with his pace in the SPL (like Bellamy did), then retire a club legend... easy
Luckily ox learnt from this
eivom at least walcott had an end product
Zip it up Ox has contributed to 6 goals for Liverpool this season? Already improved in the final third under Klopp.
Zip it up since when does Theo have end product LOL
Zip it up listen to ur username pal
was thinking the the same
Glen had the closest assessment imo. He's a 28 year old, nearly 29, and still plays like a 22 year old rookie. His positional sense, timing of runs, and confidence are really bad for his age and experience. It's obvious what happened to him. He got comfortable with the 'superstar' lifestyle off the pitch (never was one on the pitch) and didn't make an effort to progress and improve as a player, and Arsenal are the perfect club to facilitate this lack of ambition and comfortable, unpressured lifestyle. Last year Walcott refused to sign a contract until they gave him 140k a week. The audacity for such an average player, who has done nothing for the club, and who has never broken into the starting eleven in over 10 years, to demand a superstar wage (only 10k less than Alexis and Ozil - making him the third highest paid player on their roster) paints pictures about Walcott and the club itself. Now if Walcott joins another club and starts to come into his own, it's merely a turn-around tragically delayed. Both him and the club are to be blamed for his lack of progression.
Well said...
Dana Red nail, head , hit , in one 👌
Well said m8.
108 goals
78 assists
398 appearances
@@luisianafhemanyan993 1/4 record for a winger yuno
A professional winger at the top level for a decade and still can't cross the bloody ball.
I think Theo played football not to become great but to be ok, good enough for a decent contract so he can financially have a great life with his family.
Mo Salah done more in half a season than Walcott in 10
Salah actually underwent the metamorphous Walcott should have undergone; in two years Salah went from a demon runner to an electric finisher. And will likely transfer for about £100M + in a years time.
All Theo did in 10 Years was grow a beard
Dame A and a nice qwiff
Troopz
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
And sideburns
i know hardly any goals or assists, his stats for Arsenal are terrible
He’s just a player whose happy to be a bit part player, coast his career, not really push himself. I think it’s his personality, he don’t look like he has enough aggression in him to grab games and score goals, provide assists or do the dirty work. He’s the only player I passionately hate
Goodness me
Spot on
Really hit the nail on the head. Its his personality he just dgaf
Yep. He would be content to finish as Arsenal player. Just content to do social media and collect his money. No ambition or desire to realize his potential. Look at Sane & Sterling.........young and hungry.
Atleast Sterling and Sane are actually contributing to City. Walcott is just invisible at this point.
Lol Jermaine Jenas is real quiet here, I wonder why.
Because he’s not even half the player Theo was at arsenal and that says something
AT £140k a week for a bit part player he should have been playing full time or taken off the Arsenal books long ago.
Liberal Hunter blame Wenger, there's a lot of players at that club that are too comfortable. Think of it like this, Ramsey, wilshire, welbeck and Walcott are on £100K plus a week, none of them would get a game at city, Chelsea or united.
Hate the new CZcams. I'd take ramsey
Hate the new CZcams. Take Ramsey’s name out of that
And that’s the truth brother!!
@@Insertnamehere287 Ramsey is off.
This is like the Rio show lol. Rio talks and people listen
True. He's the one who says the most interesting things and tells the best stories.
JustAGuy He’s also the most most respected
Authentic Self Guide That’s y these pundits need to be legends of the game so noone can throw it back at them, look at the stick savage gets, don’t know what jenas is doing there really
@@the90sfattyfromtakethat jenas knows his football much better then Rednapp
Miguel_Rivera Jenas spent more time in the physio room than the actual physio
Walcott delivers when he has the chance and always gets at least 10-15+ goals a season when he's regularly in the starting 11.
Be honest, we all would love to see Theo being brilliant.
Rio ferdinand is on point
I’m an arsenal fan and I’m really hope he saw this. He was my hero as a 9 year old in the 08/09 season when we was good. Yeah couldn’t agree more with the points the lads made here
He’s just an athlete who got lucky
Rammy 49 I agree, poor excuse for a footballer
Tyrone Williams not really he's had some fairly decent seasons he's just got injured
So much hate and jealousy in this comment loool
i would agree except he broke academy records for goalscoring
Realvin Fiasco - Not really. It's pretty obvious that Walcott should've just went with the Olympics, though greed turned his head as football offered him more money.
He will never be the level. Everyone has surpassed him. First it was Bale, who went from lb at Southampton/spurs to RW for Real Madrid ... Then Ox who has been way more consistent in terms of ability Vs progression and now it's Dele Alli who has already more goals than him at 21. Fact is Walcott was never the standard and just got lucky, possibly because of his (at the time ridiculous pace). All young players who you'd consider raw right now are all far far superior to a now established Walcott such as Dele, Mbappe, Dembele, Assensio, Sane, Jesus and so on. He's not even Everton standard if Lukaku sets the bar now Rooney
Even Lallana caught up and passed him.
How has the Ox surpassed him with only 9 goals in 6 seasons?
Jordan Monk dont agree with ox tho he's just as bad
Jordan Monk - He's why I say Wenger is past it. A smart manager would've dumped Walcott off on a Championship side a long time ago the moment he sees Walcott's complete lack of a first touch and a football brain. Hell, even Lennon's better than him. That says it all, really.
Anonymous Guy - Nah. Ox is objectively better than Walcott.
Walcott has been neglected by coaches . We all know if he played for klopp 5 years ago he would've been a superstar . Walcott is not one of those cocky player who didn't live up to their true potential like balotelli . He just simply been mismanaged and made wrong career move. He should've left the club at 25
Ramsey, Fabregas, Bellerin Nasri were developed at Arsenal so let's be fair to Arsenal Club and Arsen Wenger show me one player that was a star at Arsenal and contiued being a star after leaving.
@@raymondatsiaya8571 Ramsey, Nazari and bellerin all of them couldn't fulfil their potential
The man doesn't even like football, he doesn't watch it , how on earth is he meant to 'learn the game' ?
Very true I watched that interview. He had no chance of becoming a great at afc
Which interview was that? Copa90?
Remember seeing that interview and thinking it sums him up as a player. He's probably content with the crazy amount of money he's making so doesn't really care as to whether or not he improves as a player/wins trophies etc
Austrailia tour 2 yrs ago
😂😂 wow
When Jermaine Jeanas talks about ‘not fulfilling potential’ 👌
Theo Walcott's career at Arsenal is an overall reflection of how bad Arsene Wenger has become as a manager.
I remember the day Theo signed, I instantly knew he'd made the wrong decision for his own development while Arsenal fans hailed him as "The next Henry".
Sam Bishop arsenal fans never hailed him as the next Henry, he did that himself.
Messi?
Walcott and Oxlade-Chamberlain both left Southampton far too quickly. They should have stayed and got some experience of competitive football in the Championship (Walcott while on our way down; Ox when on our way back up) and moved on later for the kind of price that would require him to be a 1st XI mainstay. Young players also need to recognise that joining Arsenal will kill their development - the club doesn't have a clue how to properly nurture young talent, anymore.
rocheyb1 Ox left arsenal at the right time because he's now playing well. He would've been the next Walcott had he stayed.
Hate the new CZcams - The only difference is, Ox always had good techincal ability while Walcott was just a one-trick pony.
Thugs Bunny man I'm not sure, Walcott has shown that if he gets a run in the team he will score goals. I don't know if it's an attitude problem or he just got too comfortable at arsenal.
@@Insertnamehere287 sorry for replying late but its a combination of both😂
if TW did not have pace he would be a bus driver or construction worker
Would he know where to park tho?
Off-site.
What about Rooney 16 years old played for Everton by 20 he was at united playing everyweek. Excuses
Not every player can do what Rooney did at that age. It's not difficult to comprehend. And that's not me defending Theo. I don't rate him, and got slated for doing so before most. Point is, Rooney was a freak of nature. You'd do well to remember what Gerrard, Ronaldo, Lampard, etc were like at 20.
Rooney is a legend
Rooney was a somewhat failure looking back. The only reason why he still achieved to be world class was due to Ferguson.
Rooney came to MU at age 20. 4 years is a huge different in football career. And there was a load of experience and talented player surrounded to guild him
But Rooney is a prodigy, that's the difference
It's because he has been too comfortable for too long. The culture at Arsenal hasn't pushed the youngsters enough for some time now and Walcott is the personification of that!
I’ve recently started playing 7 a side footie again and from 5-6 weeks, I’ve improved more than Theo has in 10 years FFS
why is everyone so salty? he had some great moments, great goals and a hell of a lot of injuries. was unfortunate to be caught in the period where wenger couldn't sort out the defence, otherwise we might be talking about him as a title winner..
Theo Walcot somehow just doesn't look like a footballer. I know that sounds strange, but i've always thought it. He sticks out like a sore thumb. Hes nothing but pace
Bro did u see him from 2010 to 2013 he was sick af he could dribble , shoot like damn , but yeah injuries fked him
Even after a great season of 21 Goals finishing Top Scorer. he was still seen as an 'Impact' player by Wenger. He Started the next season well but got injuries for a few months then came back and got injured again. That was probably the turning point for the disappointment of the last few seasons of not reaching his best. He's been unlucky on the International Stage too in terms of timings. WC 2006 Taken, but didn't play a minute. WC 2010 left out in favour of Aaron Lennon and Shaun Wright Phillips? and this time hasn't had regular football and England have loads of options in Midfield anyway that he wouldn't expect to be on the plane.
The guys are spot on......
To be fair injuries, wengers decisions and form play apart in him not taking off. For example last season he scored 18 or 19 goals but i do agree all in all hes not good.
He could have left arsenal any time he wanted but has chose to stay where he is. He is either too comfortable or lacks ambition.
Blaming the world, ok, but Walcott is average. He never took the step forward, espcially when it comes to being a decisive player, scoring and assisting. He was always missing stuff and never improved.
Mo Abdullahi Wenger gave him multiple chances, stop blaming him.
He was never a winner
People have to also understand the player upbringing etc.. he was never a footballer he was track and field and was spotted by a football scout than made the transition. which showed when he played he was always playing catch up in terms of his football knowledge. was the fastest player I've ever seen along with lennon and bale but unlike the others they developed properly
Fair play I really like Rio as a pundit!
Arsene wenger is a player destroyer its as simple as that!
The only English player who lived up to the hype by force was *Adam Johnson*
Are we talking racial stereotypes or football?
it was that injury against spurs the 2 1 incedent. int hat game he was st and bossing it. hes never been the same since.
he was phenomenal that period
Who is Walcott, I only know Thiad Wahrez.
I 100% agree with wot Rio Ferdinand is saying about Walcott
i agree with Glenn Hoddle.. he should be an advisor for these young players
Are they all forgetting the fact he has been injured for a fairly long period of time for several seasons?
Santos Lewynn
yeah and van persie had 2 good season aged 29 and 30 for us lol
SmellyCheeseyNugs true but look at how Wilshere has now bounced back. He has drive unlike walcott.
so ?
@Santos Lewynn Walcott scored 108x 4 Arsenal...so pls stfu
100% agree with jenas
Has anyone forgot the fact he was injured every season, sometimes for months at a time. I think that would also play a part.
i like Rio hes brutally honest. rude lightskin boy loool
hope rashford doesnt become this
REUBEN ROBIN he will.
Jay Halt English youngsters are always overhyped mate.
@@sdssds6551 Rashford scored 20 goals in this season
@@naveenraramparambil7819 thats cute.
Walcott scored 108 goals 4 Arsenal
@@luisianafhemanyan993 in 12 years
Walcott is on crazy money and knows he won’t get that anywhere else. Was given the #14 shirt undeservingly, don’t blame the staff at AFC, the guy doesn’t like the game. Just wants to ride out the contract.
Like Chambo improving under Klopp, Walcott will become awesome under Big Sam with his pace and movement. Wenger is losing his golden touch. Players like Giroud, Sanchez, Ozil, Ramsey, Xhaka all shadows of what we know they can be, judging from how they play for other managers Only Wilshere is playing well, and that is only because he is a gunner through and through.
Sanchez improved a lot since coming here. The problem isn’t that wenger lost his touch in coaching, he bought very average players and neglected defending totally. I prefer him to leave but we need a good coach like klopp or conte, whom we clearly missed.
I agree. In the past he was known for finding raw jewels and making big stars out of them. Now he's infamous for killing player's potentials :/
Hoddle is spot on!
Very Harsh on Walcott he scored 122 goals for arsenal and scored over 20 goals twice in 12/13 and 16/17 and had seven trophies.
Let’s not forgot Walcott got injured.
Ferdinand is being very harsh.
Walcott wasn’t never trusted by Wenger.
Arsenal failed him.
Walcott didn’t have a position.
agree. walcott has not changed skillwize since he was 18
Theo scored 19 goals last season, if he had score 20 or more the narrative would be a little different. It's hard to score 20 goals in a season, many top players didn't do that in their career. Let's not forget injuries didn't help him.
I used to think England were gonna win the world cup with Wilshere and Walcott. Hahaha
Tbh not a bad thought on their days both were world class. If i look at mbappe i really see nothing other than pace and finishing. If walcott was consistent he could have done the same !!!!
Maybe he just wants to be a humble guy and just play football and doesn't wanna be a superstar!
Walcott isn't a problem, the problem is the British hype machine. 'Cause the second a young player that can kick a ball without falling over appears, suddenly the entire country puts absurd expectations on him and casually expect him to win a Ballon D'Or someday. In reality, the vast majority of players become average, even teenagers who do well early on in their career. Hell, just google lists of the prodigies being hyped up 5 years ago; heaps of "This is the next Messi/Ronaldo"
Walcott is a success story, he's managed to be a Premier League footballer and remain at an upper echelon club like Arsenal for over a decade. Most players would kill for that.
Yes and he’s stat is unreal as a winger 110 goal 70 assist is crazy good IMO , and how many times he scored against United , City , Chelsea and Spurs
After the acl tear he lost his consistency. That was his best season in an Arsenal shirt.
Absolute nonsense. Rashford, Martial, Pogba. Theo didn't has the bottle.
Jesus rio is onit
He still managed to score 19 goals in 37 games last season despite being inconsistent.
Chris Waddle said it "Walcott is not a natural footballer" to true, he doesn't have a footballers brain, he's an athlete who chose to be a footballer and not a 100 meter sprinter.
Merseyside derby will be Ox vs Walcott
This Gamer twentyfour and they’ll probably play better too
I agree. Walcott should’ve left Arsenal long time ago. He’s 28 now- and that is usually the start of your peak. Plus Wenger didn’t help the man’s cause either. Hopefully he finds his footing at Everton.
Every Gunner will say he didn't evolve. These guys don't really mention that his career has been terribly struck with injuries. This causes inconsistencies.
The only achievement Walcot got in the last few years is finding a decent haircut.
Whenever theo scored the next game wenger benched him...i am not even an arsenal fan but i noticed this thing over and over again during his career at arsenal. Then 4 games no start....he would get last 15 mins as an substitute....then wenger would start him again...theo would give a MOM performance ane then he was benched again....
FROM A GOONER THEO IS JUST A ATHLETE WITH FOOTBALL BOOTS, RUNS AND RUNS WITH NO END PRODUCT
108 goals
78 assists
Anyone realised each of our mixed race wingers for england fail to live up to their hyped potential?
Lennon,Dyer, Walcott, Ox (up until now) Kieran Richardson, Redmond, Townsend?
Morrison
SS TV yep
It's theWhite in them
They only got into the team because they were fast. One trick ponies who never honed their skills in other areas and just rely on pace alone so it's easy for defenders to figure them out and pocket them. I think Walcott has been mismanaged because Wenger kept toying him with the idea of playing centre forward but then playing wide so he was just inbetween.
Words In Vision agbonlahor
Trainer Wenger gave Walcott the Everstone!
I fear the same will happen to Marcus Rashford. The English Media love to overhype these youngsters when they are still learning the game. Theo was on the receiving end and it affected him for the rest of his career. Hopefully everyone's learnt their lesson and Marcus can be the player we know he can be.
Dele Alli too. Although Mauricio seems to be handling him really well
Happened to Rooney. At least he lived up to the hype but not in the way they made him out to be
Walcott doesn't have the desire & hunger of player like Bale to compete for trophies and fight for your place in the team, he was completely content to sit on the bench game after game just so he could stay at Arsenal when other clubs were interested in him look at ox now such a better player now, cause let's face it who thought Ox would get into that Liverpool team the same can be said about Bale when he first decided to join Madrid it's all about hunger and willingness to step out of your comfort zone
Yet on the next show they ll say english players are not given a chance to prove themselves and they did well because he was fast tracked and got that experience early.
Glen Hoddle is right on the money. He was fast tracked too quickly. Everything came to him so quickly that the potential never became a reality
Hoddle nailed it. As for potential, Walcott was fast, direct & a decent finisher. Never any world class potential there
After his performance against Liverpool it’s safe to say he is finished in the prem
Everybody talking about ox ffs we don't miss him one bit
Glenn Hoddle has a great footballing mind...
Theo was a championship player who made a move to a champions league team too soon
He should have stayed at Southampton played at least 100 games and moved when he was 21
I don’t really know what these guys are even talking about Theo knows that he’s not even that good what do they expect Messi??
There saying he can go on to do this that the other he should have done this when he was 24 at the latest way to late now he could have been better than most wingers on par with Beckham if not better but he never reached that to late now sadly 😢
Its an english thing to hype young players to much young players need to be left alone to grow and learn the game
only thing Walcott has done in the last 12 years is grow a beard
Good on Fifa though
big jak not anymore
The problem is young English players are overhyped the moment they do one good thing and when they don't live up to the hype the same people hyping them up blame the player for not living up to their hype instead of looking at themselves and thinking maybe we got ahead of ourselves.
Glenn hoddle is the best option we have for England manager bar none
Nobby Burton Nah he said what he said and there's no going back on that. Plus he's been out the game too long... not too sure how Harry kane would respond to a faith healer! He's a fabulous football mind tho!
100% one of the very few England players that actually understand the game from a technical point of view.
Prashant Dugga Glenn hoddle in his 90's could do a better job than Gareth "yes man" southgate. Facts!
He took his England squad to a psychic before a World Cup, if this is the best option so help me god.
He said disabled people were punished by god....he should nt even have a job at all!
Desire never had it never wanted it enough...its shown he was lucky arsenals policy meant he was given time to play in a side and backed by wenger...
The management of Ryan sessegnon has been an example as to how Walcott should have been managed ...
lmfao at british media. One of their own? Miscoached. Overseas player? Poor personality
johanao10 04:25 hoddle says straight away after that most of it is due to Walcott
What I wanna know is why Portugal are so great at producing wingers, yet England don't even come close to their level.
From the Invincibles to the Indefencibles.
Everything rio Ferdinand said is right as a arsenal fan I want Walcott to leave the club
Theo Walcott should've left Arsenal when his contract was up & other top teams wanted him on a free. The Arsenal fans treated him badly until he signed. I feel he only signed to appease them. Now they're treating badly anyway. So sad
Is Az - Because he's garbage.
Remember when people use to compare Walcott and Bale? 😭
Remember him from Bamzooki
Type of player who will get two goals and never push for the hat trick not really a winner
Has Wilshere evolved? Ramsey? Bellerin? Wenger's a career-staller, if not a career-destroyer
I understand Rio's point. But everyone peaks at a different age. He might've worked harder than Ronaldo over the last 10 year's but simply his biggest potential was realised when he was really young. But the only person who knows the answer is Theo
Ouch lol ruthless rio
Another reason he failed is because he was given so much money at such a young age which made him complacent and not train as hard or want to develop