Every few weeks, Manchester United will be linked with “the next *insert brilliant player’s name here*” in the next transfer window. The deals never materialise and more often than not, the players never fulfil the potential.
The next Ronaldinho, Douglas Costas, was rumoured to be joining United from Gremio and caused a great deal of excitement amongst some reds. But then joined Shakhtar Donetsk last year and hasn’t been heard of much since.
Imagine my disappointment when learning that now we’re being linked to “the next Theo Walcott”, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. What on earth has Walcott done to make United fans excited about signing “the next” one of him?? Yeh, he’s fast and he has the potential to rip sides apart, as he did against Liverpool that one time, but this is his 5th season in the Premiership and he’s hardly set the world alight.
The England Under-18 attacking midfielder, who is the son of former England international Mark Chamberlain, has been mentioned in the rumour mill for some time, being linked to the likes of Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea, but now our name is being mentioned too. Sky Sports News reckon that we will be putting in an offer of £10m for him in the next 48 hours, along with Liverpool.
Sir Alex was in the stands this week to watch him open the scoring in Southampton’s 6-0 win over Oldham. The press have claimed this is because he was watching Oxlade-Chamberlain but equally likely explanations are the manager was there to watch our next FA Cup opponents as well as watch Ben Amos in action on loan. Three birds with one stone?
He is being used by Southampton on the flanks but the coaching staff believe his pace, strength, touch, awareness and eye for goal mean he will eventually mature in to a central midfielder or a forward who plays just behind the main central striker. Fortunately, it is also reported that the 17-year-old is better than Walcott was when he was at the club.
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Costas joined RoM instead.
smartalex says:
Costas joined RoM instead, hahahahah.
The next Ronaldo
The next Giggs
The next Scholes
I believe you cannot replace brilliant players but you can mould world class from scratch
I believe that one day Ravel Morrison will take over from Giggs
Nani has already from Ronaldo
Which leaves us with the biggest one – Scholes…
I don’t get this one. It’s not like we don’t got enough kids coming through the ranks. Saying that, I hope he’s as good, as what there saying, if we sign him of course.
I wouldnt’nt concern ourselves about it, as soon as the bitters hear were interested they will make a £27 million offer for him and hell be off to warm the bench before joining birmingham in a few years
weve already got cleverley
fuck off citeh, the bindippers, arse and chelski
lol
Gooner here (yes you’re at Arsenal Newsnow again) and I wouldn’t take “the next Theo Walcott” for free…….
Walcott’s been great this season. So its more 4 years annoymous but this season he’s definetly become a great player.
IMO, SAF will spend 40-55 million in the next 2 windows. He will have 2 retire Gary and VDS and 3-5 more out. Will he go for 2 bigger signings and a goal keeper or 1 bigger signing with a goal keeper and 2 or 3 7-15 million type younger players with big potential? Or all young ones?
Instead Costas became the next Scott the Red.
I don’t get this. Was there a first Theo Walcott?
Zibbie – That’s expensive windows.
Oh by the way FUCK OFF ALL GOONERS!!!!!
COME ON ROONEY BE RIGHT AND KICK THE SPURS ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TonyBee can be the next Theo Walcott…… and the next Giggs and Scholes all rolled into one…..cos I is FAT cunt…….
If he is the next Walcott, it’s a good thing. If we buy him of course. Something I doubt we will, given the amount of young midfielders at the club. If we are going to buy young midfielders, they should be good enough to walk straight into the team.
Such predictions are never accurate, so he could be a bigger talent than Walcott. Also it will give him NO pressure whatsoever, because what pressure does “the next Walcott” give you?
It’s tougher with “the next Pele/Zidane etc.”
Costas joined RoM.. he was a free agent right?
willierednut says:
Zibbie – That’s expensive windows. Some wishful thinking? Last summer Man Utd spent 23-25 million on 3 players and they have the new keeper already this window.
If a young Walcott was The0.
Oxlade-Chamberlain is The1.
The Stone Roses sung about this.
What annoys me and at the same time amuses me with such rumours is the frequent use of the term ‘dubbed’
Willie
Worry not mate, it takes wit to get a joke, to have wit you need half a brain. Not all of us are blessed with it though
CedarsDevil – I try mate lol.
I wonder who the next me is lol
No thank you on the original and new Walcott!
GM? Anti kebab lol.
Well if he’s got strength, touch and awareness he’s not the next Theo Walcott is he?
mg
What the fuck is the world coming to Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.Is this for real a double barreled name, fuck me pink.Petang petang Biscuit-barrel.
Listening to talk shite the other day and was laughing when they were talking about bale and walcott , both have had an OK season;yeah even the san siro game where bale tore them a new one – its to be expected don’t you think with Rafa at the helm you can be assured of KRAP football.
Rafael D’silva has been as consistent as those two for me he’s the best young player in the premiership today, when you take into consideration the discipline required for the RB position. The boy can be rash sometimes no doubt but these days i don’t see so much rash play as i see a fucking hard no nonsense defender. Its even made better because when he does have possession he’s always looking to get down the pitch, its almost like having Valencia at RB. For me this kid should be talk of the town.
As for this fella,until he becomes a united player i couldn’t give a rats ass. If he’s got something and SAF likes it he’ll get him, who the fuck would want to go to Liverpoo now anyway. There’s two youngsters we’ve got who i’d like to see given responsibility next season: Pogba and Morrison
slim
Fantastic post mate. I made reference to our Rafael a few days ago where by I actually called in a TV show where Andy (biggest cunt) Townsend was a guest. My question was ‘ do you agree that RDS is currently the best right back in the PL?’ AT ‘ No I do not, he has potential but his defensive side of the game needs improvement’
Next question ‘ But against Spurs he nullified Bale all on his own’ AT ‘ To be honest the ref had a poor match especially with the Nani goal’ !!!!!!!!!!!!
I mean WHAT THE FUCK hey
@ CedarsDevil
laughing my head off here mate. What the Fuck ? He said “To be honest the ref had a poor match especially with the Nani goal” Christ!! i hope you too burst out laughing on the phone as well. This is the level of stupidity and ABUism we suffer.
@Arslan Mughal says:
Costas joined RoM.. he was a free agent right?
yes ive heard..a huge pay rise with condos and the right to bang each players’ missus are apparently not enough so he walked out free
slim
Sadly if I expressed myself the way I wanted they would have cut me off! lol
I did actually have a wager with the ‘cunt’ that United would finish above the rent boys, now of course he denies that! Mind you he now says that United are favourites for the league with out deserving it!
What a low life prick
willierednut
GM – anti-kebab
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I do hate these Football Manager tags ‘the next blah blah’ but this lad is something special. I have seen him a few times when watching saints with my mates. If we did go for him I think we should offer for Southampton to keep him on loan for the rest of the season and possibly for the next season too. This is where Arsenal missed a trick with Wallcotts development.
Rumors for this chap are getting stronger
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11667_6658739,00.html
I think its quite funny the Gooners are not over the forum like a rash tonight!
They can see the article on Newsnow, cant they?
Or maybe reality strikes home, like a missile to there very Gooner hearts.
Pretenders?
Apparently, this lad favors a move to Chelsea.
MG and slim – I would have said if I phoned in, what does rafeal and bale have to do with the nani goal. I got to say apart from the nani goal what did the ref do wrong that day LOL. Bale is a good player, has a welshman I should know it lol, but he has been nothing special in the premiership
Och Well, Waited and waited and not one glimpse of a Gooner.
Throwing in the towel are we Gooners.? lol
I need a drink of reality as do some Gooners.Innit!
We are United.
Off to the Boozer, last orders will be called soon.My orders stop em Paul Jewel.Keep them trophyless for 6 years.
Bonnuit.
The gooners are goners tonight.
Well if he scores in the 4th round FA Cup game he’ll be snapped up by city.
Funny that we beat loserpool in the 3rd round
Southampton beat Blackpool in the 3rd round
Blackpool beat loserpool tonight.
Well, people do say that he is significantly better than Walcott. The only comparison to Walcott is that he’s from the Southampton Academy like Walcott and is fast, thats all. So, I do hope that, for United’s sake, that this one does live up to the hype. Wouldn’t it be nice if we REALLY got the world’s next big superstar in our ranks??? Why should Barcelona have all the fun?
We don’t want the current Theo Walcott so we definitely don’t want the ‘next’ one. Fortunately though, this guy has a lot more potential then merely becoming the next Theo Walcott, I’d be pleased if we got him.
Off topic BUT another great night for SCHADENFREUDE – LiverPoo and King Kenny humiliated by Ian Holloway’s reunion band while TheArse fold again. Gotta love it – large.
Better question why the fuck did we let eikrem leave without giving him a chance and week in and week out our midfield struggles without scholes or for that matter if anderson is not playing either, and we are being link with every midfielder player in the world. While we are giving Darron Gibson playing time fucking ridiculous smh.
i have to say.. Costas joined RoM is a brilliant line.
but then.. “Was there a first Theo Walcott? ” is better hahahahahahaha
we never hear the next nani do we, who is clearly a far superior player to wolcott. Nani has won more in his pro career than wolcott could ever dream off
Its paper talk!…….As someone said before ,its not like we dont have a reserve team full of promising youngsters.
You can keep your next ”headless chicken” thank you!
Isnt the problem more to do with media and fan hype (not to mention clubs trying to get as much cash for thier player as they can) for every Ronaldo thier are two or three every promising youngsters that will be the next one and I guess thats why its frustrating when these players dont hit that standard also another problem is the actual player believing his own press which in my opinion is the case with Walcott for some reason he seems to think he’s world class and yet hasn’t done anything like enough to prove it.
Nani was also a case in point up until this year when it seems a light switch has been flicked on and he’s woken up and started to produce on a more consistent basis and before any of you say he aint set the world alight in his last two games just remeber he’s feeling his way back to top form after injury.
The difference is that we have fergie, if Walcott went to us, he would of been a superstar now like ronaldo. Whhen someone has the potential, man utd can fulfill the potential. We are the best club.
No 2 people on earth are the same, so no 2 players are ever gonna be the same. He might be dubbed as the next Theo Walcott because he’s the easiest comparison, but at the end of the day, he’s not Walcott and he will have his own strengths and weaknesses.
Also, Walcott for me just lacks final quality. He needs to have more goals and assists to his name, very much like a young Ronaldo or a young Nani.
Anyone think if Walcott had been under Fergie’s guidance he may have been a different player? Likewise, if Ronaldo and Nani had been at Arsenal, they’d be another Walcott?
nani4ever says:
Better question why the fuck did we let eikrem leave without giving him a chance and week in and week out our midfield struggles without scholes or for that matter if anderson is not playing either, and we are being link with every midfielder player in the world. While we are giving Darron Gibson playing time fucking ridiculous smh.
When did he leave
Hi Manning, I’ve often wondered the same with Gascoigne and more recently Joe Cole both players who where over indulged by thier clubs, though admittedly it was only West Ham in Coles case but both are players who should have acheived much more than they have and even though Cole has won medals with Chelsea opinion is that he wasn’t the greatest contributor to thier recent success.
@mattbw7, He left 12/1/11
http://TheBusbyWay.com/2011/01/12/eikrem-finally-signs-for-molde/?
http://www.redforcerising.net/2011/01/13/pictures-solskjaer-signs-man-utds-eikrem-for-molde/?
We now have to buy to replace the passing of scholes because surely arn’t going to produce it from the youth now. For that matter why spend all that time, money and effort nurturing a youngster when you arn’t going to give him a proper to chance to prove his worth
He can be better than Walcott. He is compared to Theo as he is from the same club and shining at young age like him, but his playing style has nothing similar to walcott. Those who havent seen him play will tell so..
He isnt the next walcott. He can be much better, but 10ml is a gamble
The thing is Nani4ever, SAF mostly gets it right and we dont or didn’t see Eikram day in day out as he would have been the case at UTD, it happens at clubs all the time and its always easy to argue this player could have been this or the other but its a classic case of the argument that can never be proved wrong.
Eikram may shine in Norway but it isnt the same level as the PL and I didnt see a que of teams from here or any of the major leagues in europe wanting his signature.
There are other kids at UTD that show promise so lets not get overwrought about Eikram.
Most likely, it will never happen.. but how about the next “Cantona”!!
Whoever comes through United’s ranks, all I want is glory for Man U!
Glory Glory Man United!!!
Video of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain goals this season
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GdxEZWXGQw&feature=player_embedded
If he wasn’t at Southampton he wouldn’t be labelled as the next Walcott. I do believe this player is better than any player in Uniteds academy and we should definitely sign him soon
marsy the red
I get your connection – Theo was at Southampton Academy.
We have incredible players at the academy, how are you so clear on Alex quality being at a higher level?
marsy the red says:
If he wasn’t at Southampton he wouldn’t be labelled as the next Walcott. I do believe this player is better than any player in Uniteds academy and we should definitely sign him soon
How do you know?
He’s close to a move to Arsenal.
If hes good and if the price is right Fergie will sign him.
Fergie just said he made a bid for bale but the southampton wanted more so rest is history.
Same for this kid.
And most important if we do sign this kid ,then he will be taking someones place,maybe eikrem.