The Welbz Thread (official)

[Özim]

Letters the internet warrior to the rescue!

[Letters]

[Bumble]

You might say he was unlucky, but you make your own luck to some extent, a top finisher would have most likely put that away, he's got a history of missing chances, so was this just bad luck or an example of an achilles heel, failing to choose the right option and put the ball away.

Falcao missed a chance.. RvP misses chances. I think Welbeck will be a good signing and will get us 20 goals this season which is fair enough. He also has a good attitude and you know you will always get 100% from him. He wont sulk when things go bad... just get up and go again.

[GP]

You know what Welbeck is?

New Ian Wright.

[Letters]

Falcao missed a chance.. RvP misses chances. I think Welbeck will be a good signing and will get us 20 goals this season which is fair enough. He also has a good attitude and you know you will always get 100% from him. He wont sulk when things go bad... just get up and go again.

All strikers miss chances, the issue is does he miss too many. Zim thinks so, maybe he's right.
Welbeck looks like a good player though and he's fairly young so hopefully will improve. He adds a bit of pace up front and was inches away from a very good debut goal.
Pretty happy with the signing, let's hope he comes good.

[Niall_Quinn]

You might say he was unlucky, but you make your own luck to some extent, a top finisher would have most likely put that away, he's got a history of missing chances, so was this just bad luck or an example of an achilles heel, failing to choose the right option and put the ball away.

Since the date Welbeck signed he has scored two chances and missed one by a whisker. From the same date Rooney has scored a tap-in and missed two (maybe three) sitters. Rooney's finishing and overall play has been woeful. Welbeck has looked sharp and has put himself about well. Rooney has been given a free ride by the media, some hacks have even come out waving Rooney flags, a few fools gave him MOTM after his shitty England non-performance. RvC has looked clueless and is off form. Falcao is acknowledged as a deadly finisher, but he's missed his one chance so far.

In conclusion, Welbeck is the guy who can't finish.

[Letters]

I'd forgotten about the England goals. Yeah, they were good. One a nice calm finish, the other more a case of being in the right place - but you have to get there and he did.

[Fist of Lehmann]

So I'm not agreeing with Ozim in any shape, way or form whatsoever, but Welbo scores that chance we probably win the game.

Sure it was a cute effort, nice technique, clever imagination, one that Sanogo probably slashes wide with his right stump. But ultimately it's a shot off target from a one-on-one, the kind of chance you put away if you are to win big games. Having watched it several times I think a low instep curler inside the near post would have been almost impossible to stop, the percentage play.

Football is about decision making as well as execution.

So maybe it was the wrong decision, maybe it wasn't. Bergkamp always used to like chips because he said that was where the space was. But that was Bergkamp, one of, if not the finest technician ever to play for us. If Welbo is to become our no. 9, a bit of ruthlessness might not go amiss.

Nevertheless I think it was an encouraging debut. We have a forward who has enough touch to join the link up play and enough mobility to run beyond. He's not "Falcoa", but then, who the hell is?

[Power n Glory]

Rooney missing chances and what the press has to say is irrelevant. Welbeck is the guy with something to prove and he'll get his chance.

[Letters]

So I'm not agreeing with Ozim in any shape, way or form whatsoever, but Welbo scores that chance we probably win the game.

Hmm. That's a bit of a leap. It was what, 20 minutes in?
Ramsey scores that chance to put us 3-1 up (wasn't easy, but he's capable) and we win the game.