Currently there are widespread stories of Danny Welbeck
everywhere in the football media. Be it his transfer from Manchester United to
Arsenal. Be it his two goals scored against Switzerland recently. And be it his
stories at Manchester United since his younger days. The spotlight on Danny
Welbeck is so bright even Arsenal’s supposed marquee signing of the summer,
Alexis Sanchez, looks like an ordinary Joe. So, what is this all fuss about
Danny Welbeck anyway? Last month and backward, Danny Welbeck was just regarded
as a promising Englishman making his career at the club he loves since the day
he joined in his youth. Danny is a Manchester born and he grew up in the town
of Manchester. So it is a no surprise that he loves Manchester United very much,
the coaching staffs love him very much, and Danny was very determined to be a
United football great. But in truth, Danny Welbeck was never any great at
Manchester. His best was ordinary kind of best. Nothing magical about him. People
always scrutinized him of being in the Manchester United first team squad
because he is English and he was born at Manchester. It’s true that he was not
given proper chance to be the main striker at United because there are a lot of
better strikers at the club. However, his performance when the better strikers
were not on show was not great either. Even Danny was often being made the
scapegoat of United’s failing. From The Writer’s point of view, Danny is just a
good English footballer but not a great one. He is fast, yes. He is tall, yes.
And he is skillful, yes. But being a striker, he will be judged by goals scored
and the ability to fear the opposition defenders. As long as The Writer has
known about Danny, his name never made any opposition afraid of, or any opposition
took better notice of. He was that kind of ordinary. On one occasion against a
weaker opposition in the Champions League a few years back, Danny at one time
was through on goal with only one defender to beat and the goalkeeper. But he
fluffed his golden chance and he even didn’t manage to square up the chance to
a better positioned Wayne Rooney to score. That was the end of The Writer’s
trust on this promising Manchester’s talent to be a great one.
So, when the news of Danny Welbeck’s transfer to
Arsenal broke up, suddenly almost everyone took notice of his existence. He was
said to be the signing of this transfer window because of his relatively
affordable price and the massive quality that he will bring to Arsenal. What
quality actually? Just now when he was at Manchester, people were criticizing
him most of the time. So how come Danny was suddenly being applauded to be one
of the best talents England has ever produced? His two goals scored against
Switzerland further supported the notion that Danny is the new hope of England.
But Switzerland is no Costa Rica. They are an unimaginative team with not much
creative source, a weak defensive unit with Senderos and Djourou to rely on,
and have only one mighty pace in Xherdan Shaqiri. So Switzerland was very
beatable on that day. Danny Welbeck was lucky to be scoring two goals, cause on
another day against Switzerland, a fit Daniel Sturridge could have scored four!
Whatever it is, it will be interesting to see how Danny Welbeck will show his
true potential at Arsenal, if any. Arsene Wenger is so confident that he can
turn Welbeck into a prolific goalscorer. It is still remain to be seen. Whether
Danny Welbeck will become a Thierry Henry or another Yaya Sanogo. A true
performer or a mere pretender? Give this man of the moment every right to prove
his cause…
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