Premier League Thread

https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/football-wenger-cryptic-welbeck-signing-132139916--sow.html

Strange one...Wenger said he'd have preferred Welbeck on loan and he wouldn't be an Arsenal player if he (Wenger) had been in London. Strange thing to say even if true...what will the player feel about it? I think he will be a good signing for Arsenal.

 

Well, he too old to be a Wenger signing. Plus he comes from the wrong club.

 

When you read the whole article, he is quite positive about signing Welbeck. I think the message at the beginning has got a bit garbled. He seems to say he would have preferred a loan, but then later it says he preferred a permanent deal when that came available. Is it possible that he means this:

I wanted to sign Welbeck on loan, but was busy in the morning and couldn't get things sorted.
Later, Utd made him available to sign permanently, so I was lucky I had been busy as that was a better deal.

I think it is closer to that than the headline is trying to make out.

 

Me thinks that because Wenger often speaks like Yoda with the words in the wrong order in a sentence (or in the right place for a direct translation) that the papers have taken exactly what you say and made their story quite literally from the slight language barrier. There is no way he meant that if that is what he said.

 

I heard the first part of the interview. It was typical of the media they chose to select some of his words from different ends of the conversation and put them together.

 

ManU v QPR. The Express said this is like a duel where one team has chosen a rapier as weapon of choice and the other chose a fully functioning Death Star

 

Read on Saintsweb that the people looking to buy Spurs were sniffing round us recently....doesn't seem likely, does it?

 

Welbeck nearly scores...back off the woodwork.

 

Wiltshire scores equaliser.

 

2-1 gunners

 

Debuchy in lot of pain...on oxygen.

 

Chambers on.

 

Finished 2-2. Man City had the ball in the net again late on, but it was ruled out for offside.

 

Nice to see them waste a point between them. Saints could go above them both this evening. Or not.

 

Soooo....looks like Costa was a decent buy...!

 

Looks like it's going to happen. Oops, Toon nearly scored.

 

Ooh look, we can boo Twatbeard for a game at last! He's starting (hopefully on Lovren).

 

Nice to see Poch still can't beat Sunderland!

 

On another note, I noticed on Instagram that Lovren had posted a picture of his shirt in the dressing room beside Gerrard's. Jose Fonte then commented something along the lines of "I think you're trying too hard buddy".

Brilliant!

 

For a professional footballer to hero worship a team mate is cringeworthy. We all know you are at Liverpool, Lovren, but we no longer care because we have Fonte (who appears to be the best half of last year's partnership) and Toby Wotsit.