The Welbz Thread (official)

[Niall_Quinn]

Whatever the truth he's certainly given the media a good feeding as well as a way to get some backhand digs in at the ex-Utd, now playing for the wrong club, player. Stupid thing to do just before a big game. And then he goes and threatens the fans by talking about Sanogo as if he still has a future within 1,000 miles of this club.

[Syn]

Rumours in the papers say Arteta and Merts had to convince Wenger to sign him after meeting Welbeck at our training ground. Rumours also floating that Wenger wanted a loan deal with an option to buy.

The Rome comment seems very odd. Just confirms the guy was prepared to gamble on the striker position. It’s reckless and it sounds like we had more people behind the scenes trying to push through a deal.

A lot of these rumours from newspaper journalists have just made their own stories up to sell. You can watch the press conference on Arsenal.com - about going to Rome, he was arguing against the criticism he got for being away from Arsenal on deadline day, he said it's 2014 and you can make contact from anywhere (same way he bought all his other signings while being in Brazil). The rest was just usual cryptic "buy my future book and you'll find out" WUMery.

Wenger did not say he wanted a loan deal over a permanent deal - that's what the papers have made up. A question was asked about whether he would've taken Welbeck on loan, and he said 'if it had an option to buy, yes'. If anything it suggests he wouldn't have done a one year loan deal but wanted the permanent option.

Also about where he would play Welbeck, he mentioned a few times that CF would be his strongest position.

[Özim]

Getting Wellbeck on loan would have made perfect sense, if he comes good we could sign him up for an agreed fee, if he turned out sh*t we could ship him back and wash our hands of him.

As it stands we're stuck with him even if he ends up rubbish. This guy hasn't proved he's a quality player after all, his goal record is average and he plays like Bambi on ice and shoots like it too much of the time, purchasing him is a risk and he comes with a big wage as well wish I'm not sure he deserves based on his career thus far.

[Özim]

I don't know why he's announcing it to the press either - what good does it do now? It probably doesn't do Welbeck's confidence any good to find out that his now manager only wanted him on loan. It's rather like finding out from your parents that you were an accident.

And the Sanogo thing is just Wenger making sure Welbeck doesn't get complacent. I hope. Maybe. I pray. Please.

Kinda like saying I didn't really want you here, but you're here now so there's nothing I can do, but Sanogo is the number 1 guy so don't get any funny ideas about walking into the team pal.

[Power n Glory]

A lot of these rumours from newspaper journalists have just made their own stories up to sell. You can watch the press conference on Arsenal.com - about going to Rome, he was arguing against the criticism he got for being away from Arsenal on deadline day, he said it's 2014 and you can make contact from anywhere (same way he bought all his other signings while being in Brazil). The rest was just usual cryptic "buy my future book and you'll find out" WUMery.

Wenger did not say he wanted a loan deal over a permanent deal - that's what the papers have made up. A question was asked about whether he would've taken Welbeck on loan, and he said 'if it had an option to buy, yes'. If anything it suggests he wouldn't have done a one year loan deal but wanted the permanent option.

Also about where he would play Welbeck, he mentioned a few times that CF would be his strongest position.

Yes, it seems like they're trying to stir the pot a little. After watching the press conference, I think Wenger was trying to be humorous with that Rome story. You always have to take these stories with a pinch of salt. But if Welbeck was at our training ground, I wouldn't be surprised by the Merts and Arteta story.

[Letters]

Kinda like saying I didn't really want you here, but you're here now so there's nothing I can do, but Sanogo is the number 1 guy so don't get any funny ideas about walking into the team pal.

Yeah, it would have been kinda like that had Wenger said it. Look at Syn's post.

[Power n Glory]

The papers have run riot with the stories. It's all out of context.

Where did the Sanogo quote come from?

[Master Splinter]

A lot of these rumours from newspaper journalists have just made their own stories up to sell. You can watch the press conference on Arsenal.com - about going to Rome, he was arguing against the criticism he got for being away from Arsenal on deadline day, he said it's 2014 and you can make contact from anywhere (same way he bought all his other signings while being in Brazil). The rest was just usual cryptic "buy my future book and you'll find out" WUMery.

Wenger did not say he wanted a loan deal over a permanent deal - that's what the papers have made up. A question was asked about whether he would've taken Welbeck on loan, and he said 'if it had an option to buy, yes'. If anything it suggests he wouldn't have done a one year loan deal but wanted the permanent option.

Also about where he would play Welbeck, he mentioned a few times that CF would be his strongest position.

Why are you trying to prevent 40 more pages of baseless hysteria by comprehending the actual situation and being reasonable.

Anyway, Wenger is a very bad manager and I have negative feelings towards him so I will continue to contort every situation into one in which he comes out looking the worst.

[The Emirates Gallactico]

Baseless hysteria ftw tbh.

[Power n Glory]

Why are you trying to prevent 40 more pages of baseless hysteria by comprehending the actual situation and being reasonable.

Anyway, Wenger is a very bad manager and I have negative feelings towards him so I will continue to contort every situation into one in which he comes out looking the worst.

So says the guy that posted the quotes with no source and out of context.

Agent Splinter.