??? Is it ever any other way? They were always going to spin things up.The papers have run riot with the stories. It's all out of context.
For the fans, the only real question concerns the weirdness about the transfer only happening as a result of him going to Italy. Very strange.
Reading between the lines, sounds like Welbeck will be starting centrally vs the gypos.
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I simply posted the quotes as they were coming in from the press conference. I didn't wildly jump to conclusions based on my neuroses or some strange agenda against Wenger. The context is always there in the full press conference or later, more detailed articles. Surely you don't need me to flesh things out for you. After all, this sort of stuff happens daily and you'd think people who know the way the club, Wenger and more importantly, the media operates, wouldn't fall into to the trap of manufactured confusion.Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
So says the guy that posted the quotes with no source and out of context.
Agent Splinter.
And some people actually believed GP's quote too.
Central defence? Or in goal?
Could be both.
Hopefully someone influential on Twitter is reading GW so the "Wenger to start Welbeck in central defence" panic can start.
Syn might be required to put out fires again.
I simply posted the quotes as they were coming in from the press conference. I didn't wildly jump to conclusions based on my neuroses or some strange agenda against Wenger. The context is always there in the full press conference or later, more detailed articles. Surely you don't need me to flesh things out for you. After all, this sort of stuff happens daily and you'd think people who know the way the club, Wenger and more importantly, the media operates, wouldn't fall into to the trap of manufactured confusion.
And some people actually believed GP's quote too.Sure Agent Splinter.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"
NQ had a bit of meltdown over Sanogo and he has no anti Wenger agenda, so what’s your point? Even Mac commented on relying on Sanogo. Great wumming! But as said, it sparks discussion. It’s the same shit the tabloids do. Job done.
Well done Ivan Gazidis for doing something no other guy at Arsenal has had the balls to do and stand up to Wenger
The deadline day deal thing just proves Wenger was willing to gamble on the striker situation. That’s a worry and we at least know this wasn’t some brilliant ‘Wenger smokescreen’ or deadline day strategic chess move. We just got lucky.
People will always shit stir and sensationalise to attract attention. It happens all the time on GW as just seen. I suspect the mods have people they can call when traffic is a bit low.
Maybe? Maybe all it proves is that Wenger was only really after one forward signing this summer (Alexis), and that Welbeck was a last-minute reaction to a last-minute problem? Did we get lucky with that? Probably, but then you could argue that we got unlucky with losing Giroud right at the end of the window - taken in that light, you could say that we've actually reacted pretty quickly (for us)?
Anyway, however planned or unplanned it was, let's just hope the universe has done us favour here - most of us wanted to see another CF come in, even if Wenger thought we were good... and now we have one!
Agent Splinter?
I genuinely have no idea what you're even trying to imply.
N_Q was just being N_Q. Maccy obviously knows GP was taking the piss. We're all also aware of Wenger's strange ways and have been laughing about it for years. To stretch this out to some conspiracy by me and the mods is especially impressive, even for someone who can extract blood, guts and entrails from a nothing story and regularly invents massively disingenuous opposing viewpoints to disingenuously argue with and strike down.
With agents running the game, Wenger would've had information a long time ago. He kept talking about 'deadline day poker'. You can call him lucky this year, you can say he was lucky last year but the deadline deals did get done. With Man Utd looking likely to get Falcao, Wenger did say he wasn't surprised that Welbeck was available. Tottenham were heavily linked with him too before deadline day. He said the surprise was about the 'loan v permanent' situation. As invisible says the 'luck' involved was probably Giroud getting injured because Wenger might've gambled on Giroud's usually reliable fitness levels.
I'd say he's taking a big chance on the CB situation but overall the squad was strengthened. I'd say 3 decent signings, 1 potentially great signing (Chambers) and 1 brilliant signing (Sanchez). I expected worse at the start of the window.
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