He did very well in the one stint he had at lone striker, which has also been Arsenal's best run in the last four years.
the games I saw him play as lone ST the last 2 seasons were worse than having Welbeck up top. Would rather have a natural 9 with some speed then trying to figure out how to find a place for Walcott.
Jack Wilshere £90k 2018 Santi Cazorla £90k 2017 (new contract?) Mesut Özil £140k 2018 Alex Iwobi £30k 2020 Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain £65k 2018 Lucas Perez £70k 2020 Theo Walcott £110k 2019 Olivier Giroud £100k 2018 Alexis Sánchez £140k 2018 Danny Welbeck £70k 2019 There is easily enough fat to trim there to make competitive offers to Sanchez and Ozil; I suppose ultimately it boils down to 1) whether we truly want them next year and 2) whether they would do without CL football for a year.
I'd rather have a proper 9 too, but those guys cost 50 million quid. And Walcott's time at CF in 2015/2016 was really good. I don't know if he'd work as a 9 in the 3-4-2-1, but I think it's worth a shot.
They're not though. Mandzukic is an exception, not the rule. Most forwards in elite teams are productive. With regards to the EPL, only the Chelsea team of 04-06 had a low-productivity striker in Drogba. Otherwise, every single EPL winning team has high-productivity forwards. You don't want Welbeck gone even though he's mediocre at dribbline, playmaking, and scoring.... Good athleticism and work-rate is not enough. Just as we demand more from Ozil (particularly to score more goals) we should demand more from everyone else too. Welbeck is doing the bare minimum of what we should expect from our forwards.
Welbeck is much better at almost every facet of the game than theo He's stronger, not as fast but better aerially and makes the right runs He's a physical threat and stretches the defence Finishing can improve, remember ade??? I'm all for going for a good striker but who is available?
Welbeck is better than Theo at everything but the things forwards are judged most by: productivity (goals and assists.)
Theo also stretches the defense, and his off the ball movement has always been fantastic. Welbeck's taller, yes, and better with his head, and is better at pressing. That's about it.
I was going to say something snarky, but saw something about Welbeck being an G=xG finisher. Umm, what?
And that lasted, what, 9 games? I try not to. - - - - - Disregarding the Wenger factor... How much of the deals for Sanchez and/or Ozil might be about saving face with other big name players/agents? Personally I'm more afraid of the knock-on effect of Arsenal losing 1 or both than I am about actually missing them on the pitch. The team is already facing a decline in relative worth to sponsors and players as it is, so losing these guys would no doubt validate the capitulation, making it even harder to attract talent. For that reason alone I might be compelled to sign them, but it seems every solution is decidedly imperfect. This all f*****g sucks.
Yeah, but he got hurt (as a sub in a League Cup game of all things), and then Cazorla got hurt that was the end of that. He also started the FA Cup final up top, and was pretty devastating there, even if that was against Villa.
Can't disagree with your argument. However, what does it do to the team if you more than double their salary? You are paying them 250-300k per week with the next highest person making just above 100k.
Isn't this the norm at most every big club? Nature of the business when you combine an insular market with free agency. The converse can also play out and that's Arsenal's problem wherein you have several non-contributing assets making huge dollars. Ozil may not deserve tons more than Koz but he deserves a lot more compared to, say, Perez or Theo. Further, there's the notion of how much it might cost Arsenal to lose those players. Can we cut costs enough to compensate for loss of CL money? Will that hurt chances of getting back into CL? Will it impact Arsenal's appeal to sponsors? Personally I'm hoping they both sign for the 250k range that appears to be their respective floor. If they love Arsene that much and know the club needs money for other players then let's see them prove it.
Welbeck opens space for the likes of ramsey and sanchez when he runs wide and also provides an outlet across the whole of the top end of the pitch with his runs Don't just look at finishing as football now, is about more than that It is about dual roll players who are not one dimensional
But how is Welbeck not one dimensional? Welbeck's opening up of spaces aren't half as valuable as Giroud actually combining with runners. Look at all the goals runners combine with Giroud. In Ramsey's best season, like a third of his goals involved Giroud. A forward needs actual technical productivity to be good enough to be a regular for Arsenal. Welbeck just doesn't do that often enough. Ljungberg used to run around a lot as well, but he could also get double digit goals.
Welbeck main issue is health He would score 15 a year if he played all year Much better player than giroud imo
It's not just about goals I beleive the beam would function better and hisbteam mates score more than if giroud plays Giroud is a great target man but we need a mobile guy
Yeah Welbeck can't be our primary #9 next season if this club is genuine about winning more than the FA Cup.
Wellbeck is garbage and it shows how far we've fallen that this is even a discussion. Plus only Arsenal sell good players to their rivals, nobody selling us a player that can actually help us win titles only we are that naive.