He was never good enough. You can’t always choose when to sell a player that is not good enough. If an offer comes in that is good enough then you let him go.
Just now?
Aye, fine if your going to bring in better players. LVG sold players and replaced them with worse ones.
Fair enough, but that just means we should have bought better, not kept Welbeck. We sold him at a perfect time.
He got injured every season for us, usually multiple times, usually for long periods.
I was probably his biggest defender on here, but the summer we sold him was probably the right time. He'd gotten a bit big for his boots based on the reporting at the time and wasn't doing as much of the dirty work that made him useful. On the flip side he was developing into more of a 1 in 2 striker and without injuries he probably would have developed a good reputation at Arsenal.
Not true at all, he hurt his knee at Preston, when he came back from that, he had a few hamstring issues but nothing overly major and for a young player with pace, to be some what expected as he was still developing. He still played in 25-30 PL games in each of his seasons at Utd and Sunderland. His injury troubles really started when he did his knee again at Arsenal, it was one thing after another then after that.
Yeah, LVG was throwing him out on the left. He didn't like it, there was a touch of the Rivaldo's about that.
16m was a pitiful transfer fee for a proven PL striker at the age of 23. Benteke was sold to Liverpool for double that amount around the same time.
He was never premier league proven though. Never scored more than 9 premier league goals in a season for us. Always in and out of the team when he was fit. Rarely played as striker and rather on the wings where he wasn’t the best.
He made nearly 100 league appearances for United and another 20 odd for Sunderland, he was Premier League proven.
You must have very low standards for “premier league proven strikers”.
There are lots of players who play 100 appearances in the premier league. It doesn’t make them good enough to play at the top level. Certainly not for a top club.
Would you say Benteke was PL proven when Liverpool spent 32m on him? That's the kind of figure we should have been demanding for Welbeck, especially when you factor in English tax.
That’s a terrible argument. Your tangent doesn’t prove the point that Welbeck was a premier league proven striker. He wasn’t. He couldn’t even get a game for us regularly as a striker.
I think your understanding of 'PL proven' is different to how most people would define it.
At the moment your argument appears to be if someone has made a lot of appearances in the premier league they qualify as premier league proven which is ridiculous. By the same narrative benteke is a premier league proven striker too.
If you're making over 100 appearances in the PL and you're not underperforming to a level where you need to drop down to a weaker league then you're PL proven. Weird that this even needs spelling out to you. The fact that he hasn't ever needed to transfer to a club outside the PL proves my point.
So must Sir Alex then, eh?
I think he’d still be here now tbh, if there was any semblance of continuity running through the club in the past 10 years. He was useful coming off the left or as an emergency striker.
Why is he a prick? You know that's his job right?
Because he keeps scoring against my team and I’d rather he didn’t?
You didn't say "striker" initially. Most of his football was off the left.
Benteke was Premier League proven player. Spent a decade playing in the Prem.
Ofcourse Benteke is PL proven player.
Apart from Palace, there’s no other team I wanted to do the double over more this season!
No offence but this is absolute nonsense. Feel like your definition of PL proven striker is different to everyone else.
I've always wanted to see him do well tbh. Glad he is
ten Hag would love him.
Absolutely
I think the poster was confusing 'PL proven' with 'proven at the highest level at the PL'. In his mind PL proven isn't far off world class
Agree with everything you said about him. He just annoys me because he scored a last minute equaliser at the Bridge last season and then scores within minutes of coming on yesterday.
