He's at least on par with Giroud and certainly offers a different dimension. He might improve, certainly. He's still pretty young. I'm not sure he's ever really been given a chance at Utd.
It's not something to go apeshit over, but it might turn out to be a very good transaction. And at the very least we won;t have to suffer as much Sanogo while Giroud is dead.
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He doesn't score goals. If that changes then fine. But if it doesn't then this is a pointless punt.
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He scores as many as Giroud on an equal footing and certainly scores a fuckload more than Sanogo...Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn
He was on £75k at United apparently
On atleast £100k+
Oh well, he's our now, go Danny Wellbeck, im so numb to this shit now
If Sanogo is the benchmark the of course, everyone is a world beater. Giroud isn't good enough either. A quality out and out striker is what we needed. As it turns out there were plenty available this window. We bagged none of them. We have yet another classic Wenger jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none player on the books now. I'm sure he'll fit in very well with the tippy tappy regime.
On the other hand, if you tell me we're going to change the way we play and unleash strikers directly through the middle with fast back to front play then I could get a little more interested in this deal. As it is, when even Ozil can't make amything work in the congested clap-trap of a system we play then I can't see what Welbeck will bring.
Still, all we can do is hope I'm wrong and you're right but you can't say we haven't been here, seen it, done it, bought the £80 quid shirt.
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I'm not suggesting any of that. What I'm saying is that it's not the worst thing to happen in the world ever. Worst case scenario we at least have one more body between the pitch and Sanogo. Best case scenario, Welbeck develops a bit with us and with game time, playing through the middle.
And in terms of changing how we play, to some extent, if we face 11 behind the ball there's not a great deal of back to front you can do. But if you imagine a Sanchez-Welbeck-Walcott front three, if we ever get a chance to play counterattacking football, we should be able to be very quick from one end of the pitch to the other. Probably scuff the ball to the keeper when we get there but there you go.
You can see why Wenger likes him; he's quick, has good ball control, he's a good passer and he's a shit finisher. Everything Wenger likes in a striker
Nah but seriously I wasn't expecting us to sign any striker, so Welbeck is definitely a bonus. I would genuinely fear for our top four spot if we had to rely on Sanogo for four months.
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