SPEED Appears to the Password to Arsenal's Trophy Success in the New Season

SPEED appears to be the main password to Arsenal football club's pathway to trophy success in the new season.

A panoramic view of the pre-season transfer strategy that Arsene Wenger has been employing clearly reveals his keen focus on buying speedy but highly technical players bustling with so much creative attack in their attributes.

The purchase of Gervino, Alex and the inclusion of Ryo seems to emphasise that point of the transfer strategy.

This becomes more pronounced when one considers the fact that contrary to popular expectations especially from the unsettled fans, Wenger hs up to now not purchased a strong and tall central defender.

Wenger seems to be reamining firm in his philosophical conviction that attack remains the best form of defence.

What has changed slighly during the long summer break is that Wenger seems to be more emphatic on the use of the counter attack as a potential weapon to unlock difficult games for the Gunners.

This then explains the obsession with speedy wingers in his present transfer strategy.

Wenger has noted that the Gunners conceded less goals from open play. However, most of their goals were from set pieces and counter attacks.

So the new strategy will be to draw the opposition towards the Arsenal side of the pitch and then unleash a speedy counter attack.

This may happen when there is a set piece for Arsenal to defend like a corner kick, and then straight from the dead ball situation, the Gunners will unleash a quick counter attack using its speedy wingers like Theo, Gervino, Alex and Ryo.

This will also have the added vallue of unsettling the tall defenders from the opposing teams who normally venture to the Arsenal half only when there is a dead ball situation.

A good example of that would be defenders like Rio Ferdinand from Manchester United, John Terry from Chelsea and Christopher Samba from Blackburn Rovers.

It seems that during the last few years, Wenger has noted that most opposing teams stay up on their side of the pitch and allow Arsenal to keep posession without any direct impact.

This is called 'parking the bus'

This season the Gunners will play less on the opposition side of the pitch and by so doing force their opponents to be drawn out towards them.

This will allow for long balls to be sent from the Arsenal backside and give the speedy wingers a chance to run behind the back of the oppositon defence with a deadly impact.

This is something we have already seen Gervino do with so much destructive effect in the pre season games.

So it appears that Wenger as an Alsatian, has managed to borrow a leaf from the military strategy thatw as used by the generals from the NAZI Germany war years.

It is called the blitzkrieg or the lightning war strategy.

Be afraid. Be very afraid!