Arsene Wenger's trademark

 Awayfans

The Arsenal team so far this season have been brilliant not by setting the Premier League alight but by just doing enough in most matches to attain the required result. The accolades for the team that have set the league alight so far goes to Manuel Pellegrini's Manchester City who cannot stop scoring. But Arsenal who are have been shot of fire power this season from the striker's position seem to have a manager who is reluctant to spent to bring in the required reinforcement this January transfer window to aid his team who are currently struggling with injuries to key players like Aaron Ramsey who suffered a setback from is return to training, Jack Wilshere and the suspended Flamini.

Arsene Wenger has consistently used the same players over the course of the season without adequate rotation for the simple reason that he does not trust the other players enough for first team action or they are just not up to the plate. As it stands, Arsenal only have three central defenders in Per Mertesacker, Laurent Kosceilny and Thomas Vermaelen. Although Bakary Sagna can feature there too. The question remains, what happens if two defenders gets injured at the same time or even get suspended.
There is a chance in this January transfer window to rectify some issues with his squad, but nothing as being done with the window shutting in 24 hours.

A position of strength would have been a good time to aid the course of the team as the few players that have ran the course so far have been brilliant. To the extent that a few have suffered from it. Ramsey's injury was fatigue related and Oliver Giroud's and Mezut Ozil's slump in form in December was as a result of the same issue.
The likes of Nicklas Bendtner, Yaya Sanogo, Abou Diaby and Ju Park have rarely featured or not featured at all in the case of Diaby this season either due to injury or lack of trust from the manger. These players have taken up precious space in a squad that requires more players who are ready to aid the squad.

There is no doubt that Arsenal needs to strengthen especially in the striker's department as the season could unravel with an injury to Oliver Giroud. The season ending injury to Theo Walcott should have prompted  Arsene Wenger to act, yet the trademark dithering continues.

The question remains will the season eventually go the way of the 2007/2008 season when they led the league for six months, but had the opportunity to strengthen in January, rather the team was weaken when Lassana Diarra was allowed to join Portsmouth. And the season ebbed away following Eduardo's leg break at St. Andrews in February, 2008.
Or will Wenger toll the 2004 line when he bought Jose Antonio Reyes, and he ended up adding some vital goals to the club's unbeaten season.
Only time will tell as the window shuts.