Arsene Wenger issues stern warning to Theo Walcott after TEN years as a Gunner

Wenger welcomes a 16-year-old Walcott to Arsenal in January 2006

Theo Walcott has to decide on a position after TEN years as a Gunner says Arsene Wenger

"The problem is he wants to play on the right and through the middle. You have to fix yourself somewhere" warns club boss as star sweats on Euros selection

Arsene Wenger has told Theo Walcott the time has come for him to finally decide on his best position.

Walcott, who joined Arsenal from Southampton TEN years ago, is sweating on his place in England’s Euro 2016 squad after falling down the pecking order.

He hasn’t started a match for a month, and Three Lions boss Roy Hodgson has warned he needs to regain a place in the Gunners' side on the run-in to improve his chances of making the Euros.

Wenger said: ”The problem with Theo is he wants to play on the right and through the middle. You have to fix yourself somewhere.

“When he doesn’t go through the middle, he thinks maybe for me it’s better on the right.

“It’s true that at some stage I fixed him more through the middle, because of the quality of his runs, the ­intelligence of his runs, and he has improved a lot his finishing.

“I know that he’s a striker — a striker who can play through the middle or on the right as well. You know that he is a striker.”

Walcott signed a new £140,000-a-week, four year deal last summer.

Asked about the 27-year-old’s progress since then, boss Wenger said: “(It has not been) as much as he could have expected, yes.

“He had good periods in the season. After I think, recently, he has gone through a much more difficult period. But he will come back.

“He works very hard. He puts the effort in in training. At the moment for him, for [fellow striker] Olivier Giroud, it’s a bit more difficult. But that’s part of the competition.

 “He understands that as well, and he fights very hard.

"But in our job things can change very quickly from one week to the next, it can change.”

Walcott's England place is in the balance as he has lost his Arsenal one