Friday, November 02, 2012

Liverpool Launches £8 Million Bid For Theo Walcott

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers wants to bring Arsenal's contract rebel Theo Walcott to Anfield in January.

The 23 year old is out of contract with Arsenal at the end of the season and boss Arsene Wenger has said that he wants Walcott's contract issue sorted out by Christmas as he will have to sell the forward if they cannot agree terms.

During the summer Arsenal offered Walcott a five year deal worth £75,000 a week but he rejected the offer wanting a figure closer to £100,000 which is how much many of the England squad members are paid by their clubs.

Walcott has told reporters that money itself is not the main issue he wants to know that his aspirations to play as a striker for Arsenal will be met, and he showed this to his manager as he scored a hat trick for the Gunners in Tuesday night’s remarkable 7-5 victory.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is ready to offer both those things. He wanted to sign Walcott in the summer and will revive his efforts ahead of the January window.

Rodgers, who is desperately short of strikers after loaning Andy Carroll to West Ham and losing Fabio Borini to a broken foot, bemoaned his small squad following Liverpool’s Capital One Cup defeat by Swansea.

He wants to sign two forwards with Walcott his main target to share the goalscoring burden with Luis Suarez. And Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger admitted on Thursday that he may be forced to sell if Walcott fails to agree a new deal and the Daily Mail believes he want to test Arsenal's resolve with an £8 million bid.

He said, “I wouldn’t like to (sell Walcott). I’ve not even thought about that, because at the moment I think we will still manage to make a deal with him.

'But there is urgency. How much I don’t know, but there is urgency. We want to sort it out before Christmas, one way or the other.”

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