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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