Quote Originally Posted by Syn View Post
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.


I'm not so sure he knew of the Welbeck situation long before deadline day as you suggest. He may have suspected they'd have to sell at least one of their strikers if the Falcao deal goes through but I wouldn't say he intended on moving for one of them or was on the phone with his agent well before. If he was serious about the deal not happening if he hadn't have gone to Rome, it suggests he would have gambled on the players we had to see us through Giroud's injury. I'm hoping that's just him trying be humorous. But I doubt it when you look at the situation with the defenders where he has gambled on their fitness.

If agents were keeping us well versed with the Welbeck situation, what happened with their input on available defenders? Shouldn't we have known there weren't many defenders around and maybe kept Verm and Miquel? I look at that situation and compare it to the striker's and it just boils down to circumstance instead of taking action early.

It's great that reacted quickly to the Welbeck situation but we shouldn't be reacting and putting out fires. A bit of forward planning would be nice. If Wenger truly intended to play Sanchez as a striker, that idea must get thrown out the window with Welbeck's arrival. It's pointless playing Danny on the wing. We'll see what happens over the season. It hasn't been a bad window at all but we can do better.