SPUDMASHER wrote:Augie, I see the logic in that but I actually think it was for a totally different, and much more worrying, reason.augie wrote:Forget about media hype and forget about the "blowing it out of proportion" argument......nobody is seriously saying that le cock doesn't rate him, but what WE feel he is saying is that he isn't convinced by him. If the wenker defenders dispute that then answer these questions please -
1. If he believes in welbecks ability, then why did he only want to sign him on loan ? Maybe he wanted to take him on loan so that he could come to a definitive assessment one way or the other ? No matter what way you slant it, it still speaks loudly that he isn't convinced by wellbeck
2. If he is convinced by wellbeck then why not press to sign him full time from the get go ? Was it the price tag that put him off ? Does he not think that wellbeck is worth £16m ?
Personally I could understand if he is yet to be convinced about wellbeck and I would agree if he has concerns over his valuation, BUT he should NEVER have made a public statement about preferring to sign him on loan because it suggests a lack of confidence in the player. I don't care about his statement about whether it would have gone through or not had wenker not been on a jolly up and I find the suggestion about how the deal has pissed ferguscum off to be pathetic
I think AW has such faith in Sanogoals and Giroud that he only wanted Wellbeck as a temporary solution whilst Giroud is out injured. That would make a loan sensible as he could offload him after one season as Giroud will be fit again and sanogoals will have 'come good'.
I personally don't think sanogoals will ever come good (happy to be wrong on this) and I dearly hope that Wellbeck gets the chance to make the position his own.
Fair do's, I hadn't considered the possibility that le cock only wanting him to cover for giroud

Funnily enough, the wellbeck signing could be a watershed moment in le cocks current managerial status - many of us were underwhelmed by the wellbeck purchase, but every Gooner wants him to be picked at centre forward cos the thought of le postman becoming a regular starter scares the bejaysus out of us (I know there are other reasons but that is the one single reason where all of us agree). If le cock continues to pick le postman and/or plays wellbeck on the wing, then I think that wenker will feel the wrath of the crowd like never before and he will appear to be a petty spiteful c*nt who is rebelling against the signing of a player that he didn't want bought