When he injured his knee in 2016, Wenger said that it might have been because he pushed him too hard physically too quickly after his return from the last one. Wouldn't be surprised if Wenger feels a duty to the player to get his career back on track, even thought it's ultimately to the detriment of the team.
It hurts the club sometimes, but I prefer Wenger's approach over being a **** towards players like Mourinho.
He looked like he had done work on some of the less tangible parts of his game. Made better runs, took more shots - dovetailed nicely with Lacazette at the time too. Shame he lost that momentum but even when he was in that kind of form, he still had a lot of awry moments.
I do not deny that of course. What I see is though, we look like we have to rebuild every year. We have purchased too many players in the last 10 years who we had to replace too early.
Your right. Some of them though have had injuries and never recovered back to their old selves, Cazorla certainly, Walcott, Welbeck, Debuchy and even Jack.
I sort of agree with you and as @Makingtrax said,we've also had to deal with a lot of injuries. My take is that we've actually kept a lot of players for far too long meaning we have to have a periodic mass clearout. Gervinho, Joe Campbell and Lucas Perez aside,I can't think of many players Wenger has discarded in a hurry. We've also failed to properly compete in the market which means many players have been a stop gap until we got who we really wanted.
Yeah somewhere around £10-12M is what I'll expect for this donkey. The fee's we received in January for Theo and Giroud (who boast far more impressive stats than Welbeck) don't give me much confidence that we'll even get close to recouping what we wasted on him.
