01 Oct 2014 22:09:39
Our very own danny welbeck had a brilliant game tonight scored his 1st champions league hatrick i guess. Credit when its due, hope he can make his name elsewhere
Credit where its due - well done dany
Criticism where its due - the Galatasaray defense was pants. Especially melo.
There's a reason I have him in my fantasy football team. Given the chance to play in a central position I can see him coming good. I suggested when he left that he may well outscore all of our strikers and was ridiculed. Early days so far - but he's already ahead of Rooney, RVP and Falcao.
In all comps red or just in the bpl? Hasn't he got just the one in the league?
02 Oct 2014 00:40:38
How's he ahead of Rooney redseven? You can't include CL goals.
Congrats to Danny, we would have loved him to do it for us bit the reality is he may have just been at the wrong club for him. 3 managers saw him as below other players (maybe his flexibility went against him ala Smalling/Jones).
Over the season it could be that Arsenal, Man Utd and Danny are all better off with the Deal.
Glad he's gone never good enough
02 Oct 2014 11:03:10
Great effort from Danny Welbeck good to see him doing well. I do wonder though how much of his lack of goals at United was down to a front two Rooney/RVP who play purely for themselves. From what I've seen so far Arsenal look to have created more chances for Welbeck this season than United managed all last year. I think Falcao has as many assists as Rooney and RVP put together this season.
Ozwald - Why exactly can't I include Champions League goals? Last time I checked they were scored in a not too dissimilar fashion to Premier League goals?
Brad - Agreed. I think everybody is better off. I kind of wish we had just loaned him there to prevent him scoring against us and on the off chance that he bangs in 30 goals (ironically - this is what Wenger wanted as well but we refused).
Well you're comparing welbeck's goals over 5 games in 2 different competitions, compared to Falcaos 2 games in 1 competition?
Welbeck is not and never will be as good as any of our 3 strikers.
Anon - 3 games - but as far as I'm concerned ECL goals are worth a lot more than EPL goals anyway due to the increase in opposition difficulty and overall pressure.
By the same token though people have been comparing Welbeck to Rooney and RVP when he's played less minutes and in less advantageous goalscoring positions.
Most of us didn't want to see him go. It is a shame.
GCU very quiet??!!
I'd hardly say Falcao has played 3 games for us, he's play about 160 mins of football so far.
Fresh - Its all relative I think it is perfectly fair to say that our Utd pre ADM/Herrera needed a Welbeck more than it needed a Rooney or RVP. Yes if you were picking a dream team you would have Rooney & RVP ahead of Welbeck on paper, but if you looked at what Utd were lacking then Welbeck should have been chosen ahead of them every week.
Certain players fit certain styles and systems better. Welbeck would score more than RVP & Rooney if started upfront for Utd instead of out wide or on the bench, especially if spoon fed penalties.
The Utd team were crying out for some pace and a worker upfront who would stretch teams, as a result we barely created chances with the ponderous Rooney & RVP combo. Now we have injected some pace and support from ADM & Herrera he isn't needed as much. We were desperate for Danny a month ago imo. This is why I was so angry we sold him, foolish decision when RVP is virtually finished.
Rooney & RVP could be better players with the new signings for me, but most people choose not to see that we didn't need them two as much as we did a Welbeck pre this window closing.
Beast
Everybody knew we needed pace, that's why we bought di maria.
Rvp imo is a better striker than welbeck and i also think wilson will be .
For me its simple, di maria and falcao in and wilson to take over from rvp.
I think all them players are better than welbeck .
02 Oct 2014 16:55:10
Redseven that's ridiculous, you can't compare them if Welbeck has played more games! Such a stupid thing to say, how do you know that any of our three strikers you stated wouldn't be on a higher goal tally if they had as many games as he's played?
By your logic, for arguments sake if Danny had scored more goals than Messi this season because he's had more games then Welbeck is the better player?
Jred - With Wilson in the wings and ADM signed I completely agree.
I'm reserving judgement on RVP as he looked sharper last time out and should link better with class players. Danny is not as street smart or football smart as Rooney & RVP and with the class we have now that bodes well.
If ADM gets injured we are back to zero pace again though, that is my worry (Wilson won't get many games this season).
Beast
Wilsons games may be limited this season but i think once we get a settled team and are playing well, he will get games.
Rvp for me is a class striker and you know what they say about class.
That said I've been saying for a while rvp may leave in the summer due to age and only having 1 year on his contract
Ozwald. If you'd bothered to read my original post you would see that I was not comparing him to any of our strikers - merely pointing out that since the window closed he has outscored Rooney, RVP and Falcao. I'm not saying that makes him a better striker than any of them and only made the statement in regards to an earlier suggestion I'd made that he may well have outscored the aforementioned three players come the end of the season (again - I'm not suggesting that if this were to happen it would mean he was a better player).