The question will always be why Wenger hasn't chosen to play him as a striker, until he proves he can play there effectively and more importantly, consistently the question will always linger. Say what you like about Wenger but he does seem to know how to player's strengths, admittedly when you have Van Persie in the team you're not going to oust him for some young up and comer in Walcott but the fact that he's gone out and bought other strikers with Walcott there and effectively pushed him down the pecking order is a worry.
Having said all that I think he'd be an o.k. fit for what we need at the moment, for long term I'm not 100% convinced and his wages would probably be huge so it'd be somewhat of a gamble, but enough of a guarantee of goals and performance levels that I'd be perfectly happy if we could pull it off.
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