The Welbz Thread (official)

[She Wore A Yellow Ribbon]

So have we gone from pitch forks and brimstone about singing him to 'warming to it' and suggesting him being better than Falcoa?

Welcome to GW.

[Niall_Quinn]

You should take your own advice on this one. Wait for the players to play before going over the top. It's money well spent if he performs and if Wenger actually plays him as a striker. It's money down the toilet if he plays him down the wing.

Always rated him, the only Utd player I liked.

[Munchies]

Better than Sanogo

[I am invisible]

Falcao sorry!...and signing not signing!

So what has changed other than shinning it the other day.

No one can stay angry with Danny - just look at that smile!

Let's buy him a present!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

How did Vassell ever play for the england team ?

Golden Generation.

[I am invisible]

So have we gone from pitch forks and brimstone about singing him to 'warming to it' and suggesting him being better than Falcoa?

In all honesty, and in spite of the fact that he's been around since about 2008, I don't think a lot of Arsenal fan (myself included) had actually paid a whole lot of attention to Danny Welbeck until he signed for us? I would imagine most people's first reaction was the same as mine: to be spectacularly underwhelmed, because we were rummaging around for one of Manchester United's unwanted squad players on deadline day, when most felt that we should have had the striker situation sorted out weeks or months (or years!) earlier. And the mood was then further soured by the fact that ManUre were smashing out deals for Falcaos and Di Marias (signings are the new trophies, after all). (Although, to be fair, I'm sure a lot of the outpouring of grief was just the usual football forum faux-outrage, for the sake of sarcasm and comedy, and generally just having something to tall about?) But anyway, once it was all done and dusted, and we'd had a chance to make even the slightest of slight efforts to dig out some YT clips, and see what rival fans were saying, I think he started to look and sound like exactly the kind of player that we need for the CF role (as we play it), and someone who would add a lot of the attributes that our attack has been desperately lacking. There's still a fair amount of uncertainty over what exactly we should expect from him, but the two goals against Switzerland certainly won't have done any harm in that respect!

And he's not Sanogo - that point cannot be stressed strongly enough. He's. Not. Sanogo.

To be fair, I'm not sure anyone has said that Welbeck is a better player than Falcao on an individual level - just that the deal was better, and that United may have made a serious cock-up here? They're basically paying £20m to borrow a player for 8 and a half months, whereas we've signed someone who could potentially lead our line for the next 7-10 years. But worse than that (from they're POV), they've potentially (significantly?) improved one of their closest rivals for the CL spots, when they really didn't have to. Just my opinion here, but I think they would have done their chances more good if they'd simply done nothing (kept Welbeck and not signed Falcao) and left us to work with what we had until the new year...

[GP]

Wenger
"Welbeck brought in for depth, will need to prove he's better than Sanogo"

[Master Splinter]

Wenget on Welbo:

"Danny Welbeck is young and I feel he can improve his career here - he is confident"

"I was happy to take a permanent transfer with Danny Welbeck"

"I cannot tell you if Welbeck will start [against City] but it's a possibility. I have to assess the squad"

"It was quick because it was the last day of the transfer window but I had no hesitation to do it."

"If I stayed at my home, Welbeck would not be here...that is the truth."

And WUM time:

Referring to being available all day because of his trip to Rome

"I will tell you the story one day."

"When you analyse Welbeck's game, he has the qualities to play down the middle but he is very versatile"

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Time to place our faith in Sanogo again.

Also, for the most part I have no idea what WUMger is saying.

[Niall_Quinn]

If Sanogo plays then some bad shit is going to happen. I don't know what yet, but it will be bad.

It's time for Wenger to get over this Sanogo thing. Sometimes you make a mistake, a huge, inexplicable, retarded mistake. He doesn't even need to admit it, he just needs to quietly send the guy out on loan to the nearest post office.

We know Wenger is a wind up merchant but some things aren't funny. There's would be no conceivable justification for leaving out a guy who is on a high having scored twice for his country and replacing him with a turd who can't even play, never mind score. Wenger will get slaughtered if Sanogo plays and rightly so. Not funny Wenger, not impressed.