The 2014/2015 league season is virtually half way as the year runs to an end and in exactly four days the winter transfer window will be officially thrown open giving teams who have been struggling in their respective Leagues a chance to recruit and savage their faith.
Although the winter transfer window for some managers is unnecessary but for many it is an important time to recruit new players that will fill the space created by injuries to key players in the team during the cause of the first half of the season.
The English Premier League over the years has always come top in terms of movement of players and most importantly total cash money involved in the transfer of players from one club to another and these term looks not to be different as clubs like Southampton and Tottenham have
already announced some signings going into January 2015.
The truth must be said, in as much as transfers in the winter is necessary, previous experience has shown that most of these acquisitions are 'panic buys' which the team don't really need or probably not the quality needed by the team and most times, top players are not always available for transfer in the January transfer window.
Taking the English Premier League as a case study, it is evident that come what may, some teams are struggling not become they are not technically sound, but because they lack the personnel to interpret the techniques on the field of play, some times in specific department
of the team while in other cases, in more than one department of the team.
A quick X-ray of these Premier League teams sees North Londoners, Arsenal FC topping the chat.
With the acquisition of Chilean international, Alexis Sanchez in the summer, and the presence of pass general, Mesut Ozil along side tricky Santi Cazorla in the Gunners team every football pundit will say 'yes they are ready to go', however, the Arsene Wenger led team has suffered a rather inconsistent form in the first half of the season as they have lost a better part of their first team players to injuries some for a short term, while for players like, Jack Wilshere, Mesut Ozil, Mikel Arteta, Abou Diaby, David Ospina, Laurent Koscielny, Mathieu Debuchy, and Theo Walcot, it has been a long wait on the sidelines due to injuries.
Arsene Wenger led team has suffered immensely from injury to key players these season; at some point Wenger had to play his full backs in the Centre Back position and hope they don't get injured themselves as there are no substitute centre backs on the bench at the time.
Arsenal's shortage of personnel at the back has been so evident as they have been unable to keep any clean sheet this season in all competitions even when they had a reasonable lead in a match fixture, example of such is seen in the game against Anderlecht in the UEFA Champions League which ended 3-3 despite going three goals ahead and little time to play.
Not only will Wenger need a quality centre back, a good and perfect cover in the defensive midfield position will be another superb signing for the French man whose team currently sit sixth on the EPL log table with 30 points from eighteen games.
Wenger is not the only manager in the EPL whose team has been seriously depleted with injuries, reigning Champion, Manchester City currently has all its strikers out injured but the question on Manuel Pellegrini's mind will be 'If the strikers come back what happens to the new recruit?'.
Teams like Liverpool, whose strikers has been underwhelming so far needs to make a plunge in the market if they want to savage what remains of their pride and build on their second place finish from last season.
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