<!--Article Start--> <h3 style="text-align: justify"><strong>Arsenal FC winger Theo Walcott has reportedly agreed a new contract with the North London based club, amid speculation that <a href="http://www.thehardtackle.com/category/english-premier-league/liverpool/" target="_blank">Liverpool FC</a> were interested in his signature.</strong></h3> <p style="text-align: justify">After long and protracted negotiations, the club and the English international were finally able to come to agree on terms, acceptable to both the parties involved <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/theo-walcott-agrees-new-four-6138896" target="_blank">according to reports</a>. Walcott, who was in the last year of his contract, had a similar contract saga three years ago, when he extended his contract.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify"><strong>Walcott joins Arsenal FC's elite club of footballers earning in excess of A?100,000-a-week</strong></h3> <p style="text-align: justify">The new contract will see Walcott stay with the Gunners till 2019, while also bringing his salary to A?100,000-a-week, making him join an elite bracket of select footballers earning in excess of A?100,000 at the North London club, which includes stars like Alexis Sanchez, Mesut Ozil and Petr Cech.</p> . <p style="text-align: justify">Earlier, there were doubts over the long term fitness of Walcott, who had suffered a serious new injury in January 2014, while playing in a FA Cup match against arch-rivals Tottenham, however, his performance towards the end of last season and in the FA Cup final, has convinced the <a href="http://www.thehardtackle.com/category/english-premier-league/arsenal/" target="_blank">Arsenal FC</a> hierarchy that the 26-year-old has returned to his best and the injury did not take a toll on the speedster's pace or goal-scoring ability. The Southampton youth product had missed last year's World Cup due to the same injury, which kept him out of action for more than a year.</p> <h3 style="text-align: justify"><strong>Arsene wanted to avoid a repeat of last time's Walcott's contract negotitations</strong></h3> <p style="text-align: justify">Last time, during the contract negotiations, manager Arsene Wenger had feared that the club might lose Walcott on a free, as the negotiations had entered the final six months of his contract, before an agreement was finally reached, and the 65-year-old wanted to avoid a repeat of the scenario. Arsene must be a relieved man now that the negotiations have concluded and the English international will most likely be spending his prime years as a footballer at the club.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">The Gunners looked in sublime touch in yesterday's match against Olympique Lyon, as they hit six past the <em>Los Gones</em>, en route to an emphatic victory in the first game of the Emirates Cup. While, there have been calls from a huge section of the Gunners faithful to sign a World Class striker, on account of their display last night, one might have to think, what a World Class addition could do to this already brilliant side.</p> <!--Article End-->