David Sadler: Longsight lad Danny Welbeck shows Carlos Tevez how it should be done
It has certainly been a tale of two strikers this week in Manchester.
The eyes of the football world are on the city this season and, for the sport in general, Danny Welbeck has been the perfect antidote to the shoddy Carlos Tevez affair in Munich.
On the one hand you have a young local lad enthusiastic and desperate to play and scoring in the Champions League.
On the other, you have an extremely well-paid individual who, if all accounts bar his own are true, refused to come off the bench for the Blues in what was their biggest game of the season so far against Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
The contrast could not be more extreme.
I am pleased for Danny Welbeck because scoring goals is the hardest job in football.
When you are at a club of Uniteds standing it is even harder because they cannot always wait around for a goalscorer to come through.
The pressure to stay at the top is so intense and goals are such a sought-after commodity generally managers will go with proven, established scorers.
Thats why the Reds have spent so much money on strikers.
You have to be able to come in and make an instant impact.
The bus wont wait otherwise.
So while in other positions people may have some leeway to be a little more patient, as a hitman it can often be now or never.
Thats why a home-produced striker at a club like United is so difficult to come by.
It hasnt been a smooth ride for Danny, either, and here is where I have to hold my hands up and say I look like I am going to be proved wrong.
Id been told by a lot of people within the club what a good prospect Welbeck was.
But on the little evidence I saw I wasnt convinced.
He always looked like hed fall over if you blew on him. But hes grown and his loan season last year at Sunderla! nd has b rought him on physically.
He is now a proper handful and a really dangerous striker.
Those are words which have always applied to Carlos Tevez.
And my opinion on that didnt change even when his shirt changed from red to blue.
But he is so far out of order with what he is alleged to have done in Germany.
Roberto Mancini went up a notch with his stance that Tevez will never play for City again.
I hope the Blues stand by that. It is the only solution.
What do you think? Have your say.
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The eyes of the football world are on the city this season and, for the sport in general, Danny Welbeck has been the perfect antidote to the shoddy Carlos Tevez affair in Munich.
On the one hand you have a young local lad enthusiastic and desperate to play and scoring in the Champions League.
On the other, you have an extremely well-paid individual who, if all accounts bar his own are true, refused to come off the bench for the Blues in what was their biggest game of the season so far against Bayern Munich in the Champions League.
The contrast could not be more extreme.
I am pleased for Danny Welbeck because scoring goals is the hardest job in football.
When you are at a club of Uniteds standing it is even harder because they cannot always wait around for a goalscorer to come through.
The pressure to stay at the top is so intense and goals are such a sought-after commodity generally managers will go with proven, established scorers.
Thats why the Reds have spent so much money on strikers.
You have to be able to come in and make an instant impact.
The bus wont wait otherwise.
So while in other positions people may have some leeway to be a little more patient, as a hitman it can often be now or never.
Thats why a home-produced striker at a club like United is so difficult to come by.
It hasnt been a smooth ride for Danny, either, and here is where I have to hold my hands up and say I look like I am going to be proved wrong.
Id been told by a lot of people within the club what a good prospect Welbeck was.
But on the little evidence I saw I wasnt convinced.
He always looked like hed fall over if you blew on him. But hes grown and his loan season last year at Sunderla! nd has b rought him on physically.
He is now a proper handful and a really dangerous striker.
Those are words which have always applied to Carlos Tevez.
And my opinion on that didnt change even when his shirt changed from red to blue.
But he is so far out of order with what he is alleged to have done in Germany.
Roberto Mancini went up a notch with his stance that Tevez will never play for City again.
I hope the Blues stand by that. It is the only solution.
What do you think? Have your say.
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