Arsenal’s Transfer Window, or Yours?

I like trees, and I also like wood.

For Christmas, I was given a book called Norwegian Wood, and I highly recommend it. Quite apart from the fact it is heaving with interesting stuff, the author describes how a log stack says much about the character of the person that stacked it. Bit like the Arsenal transfer window and your personal targets.

You tell me yours, and I will tell you what kind of person you are.

Those who know me, understand that I am an old school football purist, who favours the 2-3-5 formation, and as such, places the highest importance on entertaining football, little to defensive nonsense, and everything on goals.

As such, my sort will always seek to strengthen from the front.

Anyway, back to my new found psychology skills, and getting things Arsenal back in sharp focus.

We are top of the league, and still in both FAC and CL competitions, and thus mounting enormous strain on an already stretched squad. Some say players are about to return from injury, others will say that by then others will be broken. Half full’ers, half empty’ers, optimists, pessimists or realists.

Given our current position, are you someone that is happy to continue to build for some distant time on the horizon and re-enforce with more “potential”, or are you “in the moment”, and happy to spend on pressing home the opportunity now glaring us in the face.

Perhaps you favour strengthening our defensive shield and creating a wall so strong, we will never concede again, but at what cost to the purist?

Two goalscoring attackers is my preference, and “we will score one more than you”.

MickyDidIt89

Dreams are funny old things aren’t they.  I mean, what the hell is going on there when you are supposed to be shut down for a few hours?

Strange and unpredictable, and yet as we head off into that most mysterious of zones, we all know that both ecstasy and horror lurk in our paths.  Both sit patiently in the shadows, and we know not which will assault us first.

Well, that is until we are awoken by a sharp clout around the earhole by our loved one, who herself has been awoken by the screams of “Kylie, Kylie, come back Kylie”. Thump, aaaaargh!!!!

Thing is, there’s a common denominator between heading off into the unknown of dreamland, and heading off into the second half of the league season, fantasy and what lurks ahead.

Ok, we have Southampton to play before we are actually at the half way point, however, Christmas always feels like the fulcrum point to me. As we sit, seeing if we can peel off the satsuma skin in one piece, we will all seek a quiet corner away from family feuds and contemplate the state of things Arsenal.

Top of the list will be can we win the league?

We will weigh the pros and cons, so what are they.

PROS

We are second, and this is very good.

We are no longer just beating the minnows.

We have victories over the big boys and our main rivals, including Utd, City and Leicester.

We are not awaiting the dark patch, when the wheels come off through injuries. That has already happened, and we have successfully navigated our way through.

The form of understudies like Campbell and Flamini.

CONS

Fixture congestion. We have CL and FAC commitments, and this will cause stress points.

The reliance on a fit Mesut

Will Kylie ever return?

Over to you then, and what obstacles do you see during the sprint to The Title?

MickyDidIt89