The #BBC vs The #MSN: Who will prevail in the El Classico?

The El Classico, the most popular & the most watched club football match in the world with a viewer-ship of over 400 million worldwide will this season have a different & interesting twist to it as both clubs try to prove to the world on who has the best & deadliest striking partnership in European club football. In recent years the main attention & attraction has been drawn by two of the best players on the planet who feature in the El Classico coupled with a side attraction of whose new signing will get his name of the score sheet or will outperform the other, as it was seen in the Gareth Bale versus Neymar contest. But not this time round, the match will have for the first time in many years a fierce contest between @realmadrid’s #BBC and @FCBarcelona’s new formed and yet to be unleashed striking partnership the #MSN.

The BBC which needs no introduction was tauted as Europe’s best striking partnership by pundits last season,  their breath-taking pace and clinical finishing saw them tear teams apart from limb to limb and eventually helped @realmadrid win its historic tenth @ChampionsLeague trophy, the #LaDecima, after thirteen years of trying, they also scored a total of 28 goals between them in the competition and a mind-boggling 97 goals in all competitions last season. That said they also helped @realmadrid win the Copa Del Ray trophy last season beating their rivals @FCBarcelona 2-1 in the final. But the question remains, will they continue their dominance come this season or an even new deadly striking partnership will emerge from one of Europe’s biggest clubs.

On the other hand the @FCBarcelona seem to have put together a striking partnership of their own after the acquisition of @luis16suarez. The #MSN which is made up of Lionel Messi @luis16suarez and @neymarjr, an all South American affair as opposed to the #BBC which is an all European affair, will make this years El Classico a mouth-watering piece. The #MSN  combination which is yet to be seen in action will make its debut coincidentally in the El Classico against the #BBC, on October 26 exactly a day after @luis16suarez four-month ban handed to him by @FIFAcom, for biting Italian defender @chiellini at this years World Cup, comes to an end. The #MSN will be hoping to dethrone the @BBC as the deadliest striking partnership in Europe.

I honestly can’t wait for the day this two European heavyweights square-off and produce some mouth-watering, tasty, quality football. On who will prevail? your guess is as good as mine, though i tip the #BBC to urge past the #MSN in the first leg. Until then we wait patiently and see what unfolds on the 26th of October.

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Arsenal’s Summer Business in Perspective

Arsenal’s only summer arrival Petr Cech

The REAL Reasons for not signing a striker

I’m quite sure you are still pondering over Arsenal’s inability or unwillingness to sign a single outfield player this transfer window. Then welcome to my blog as I try to make sense of the somewhat sensible or thought provoking reasons underlying Arsenal’s dormant position regarding the clubs transfer of players into the club.

First off to begin with I would like serve you with some starter before the main dish arrives. I would want to first and foremost to dispel the notion which is being bungled around relating to Arsenal’s transfer activity. I’ve heard a quite a lot of amateur sports writers who do command some following tag Arsenal’s transfer activity as inactive or dormant and I would like to correct that misconception. A team’s transfer activity is not defined by only the number of players that move in to the club only but, also the players that move out does count. I don’t think a club that had eight (8) players walking out of its doors either temporarily or permanently can’t be tagged as dormant.

Moving on to the main meal itself, which is Arsene Wenger’s supposed reason behind why he felt the club did not need a new striker or outfield player this transfer window. It’s well believed that Wenger feels that even if Arsenal brings in a world class striker and scores thirty plus goals in his first season and subsequent seasons the club will not win any great honours by virtue of that fact, but Wenger believes that if only the likes of Mesut Ozil, Chamberlain, Theo Walcott, & Danny Welbeck step up to the plate in terms of goals, only then will the club be confident of securing any major title this season.

Reported striker targets for Arsenal

I honestly do agree with Wenger on this point as recent history has made it clear that for you to compete with best in Europe you should have a duo or trio of players who will contribute immensely and consistently to goal scoring in the team as juxtaposed to a one man job which a lot of Arsenal fans think is the solution. I think this perception of the world class striker theory  stems from the Thierry Henryexperience, but let’s face the fact, when we began to rely solely on him for our goals we did not win anything and I guess that was when our trophy less streak even begun. Better still you can look at Real Madrid over the past two seasons. We saw how their season ended two seasons ago when their BBC was in form & last season when only Ronaldo was in form. And lastly out of the numerous examples is the dominance of Barcelona in Europe, they’ve been able to achieve this because they have always managed to get two or three goal scoring machines in their team over the last decade. Starting from Eto’o & Ronaldinho, also Messi, Thierry Henry & Eto’o and recently the Messi,Luis Suarez & Neymar combo popularly known as the MSN.

And for dessert, is the increasing number of forwards at London Colney. Arsenal had close to 50% of their players that moved out being forwards and this has not still significantly reduced the number of forwards at the club by that much. Even with Welbeck injured the likes ofJoel Campbell still find it difficult to make it the first team, therefore any new addition to the forward line will limit opportunities for young strikers at the club and also adversely affect the wage structure.
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