Biggest disappointment of a signing ever in club history when measured against expectations. Came up short with the exemptions of a few cameo performances which promised more but never found consistency.
Then became one of the most reprehensible individuals behind the scenes we ever had. No loss.
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Makes me laugh people saying we’re gonna miss a club legend when he famously bottled it in big matches and only had 1 season that lived up to his price tag. I’m glad to see the back of him
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Away from home Özil didn’t really do big games. At Emirates (Wenger-era), he invariably turned up. I can remember performances where he was the best player on the pitch in wins against Chelsea, Tottenham, Man Utd, Man City and Liverpool.
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Can you furnish @JakeyBoy with some evidence regarding this?
Absolutely this.
If he’s not part of the solution, he’s part of the problem.
Bye.
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Ozil never fell off. That’s just the narrative people use to mask the fact that he never struck up effective connections with other players superior to Giroud who were allegedly more suited to receive his assists ie players with pace who can run the channels compared to the “static” lamppost Giroud.
By any metric Ozil was still this team’s sole creative force by far as recently as last season, he’s declined physically slightly but his vision and technique is still world class.
Dig deeper as to why he hasn’t been able to put up big assist numbers with a peak Auba on the pitch.
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He still hit 9 assists in 26 League games, a normal and good, assist number when Lacazette became our main striker. He was great with Ronaldo and Benzema.
Not sure he is as ‘bound to Giroud’ as you’d claim he is. Something rather happened in 18/19 when Emery came in, we changed our style of play, he fell off etc.
Giroud was just lucky to play with him from 13-17.
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Ready for some people to jump in and throw you the no context 2 assists in 40 games blah blah blah.
What were your expectations?
See that’s the issue when some are assessing Ozil, at his best he was a pure playmaker, a true #10 that is a facilitator in every way and has never been a prolific goal scorer so what exactly were some expecting that makes him the biggest disappointment ever? He is the last piece of the puzzle, not a driving force or talisman.
He has his faults but he fulfilled his role more often than not, the club didn’t put all the pieces together either. He isn’t the only one at fault considering the poorly constructed teams he played in during his peak years.
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Ozil for me is overrated, granted it he has the ability to pick out a master pass, but that happens very rare. Not long ago I put some stats up comparing Ozil to Eriksen, their numbers are more or less the same assist wise only Eriksen also chips in defensively, covers more ground and scores a lot more goals, plus he turned up for the big games.
Everyone here thinks Eriksen is garbage, and finished as a footballer so not sure why someone who has performed better for a team worse than us is viewed in this light but Ozil is seen as some sort of mythical number 10. Guy was a passenger in too many games, and the year we bought him, it was panic buy after we failed to sign a forward (which we desperately needed and a CB which we also desperately needed) and the fans had a meltdown after what was another shitty start to the season.
Finally he can fuck off.
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Firstly anyone calling Eriksen “shit” during his best years under Poch quite frankly doesn’t know what they’re talking about so using them to support an argument is pointless.
What Ozil provided at his peak also just can’t be measured by stats, passing between the lines, receiving the ball in tight spaces and drawing defenders were also his hallmarks. The (mostly English) narritive that you have to run like a headless chicken like Alexis to contribute to the team is inane.
Ozil was one of if not the best #10 in his peak, this revisionism is tired AF.
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Ah yes the Parker-Noble Hypothesis.
Expectation on signing him was we were going to go from a top 4 side to a title challenger and CL contender.
We really didn’t move though. That’s not all on him for reasons we all know on team building and Wenger mostly. That though doesn’t excuse the amount of occasions he didn’t turn up or get involved in big matches or loads of games against ordinary games crying out for his talent to break the game open but didn’t happen to many times.
Loads of posts measuring stats but nobody keeps them on players on poor games when nothing happens or players getting hooked. It’s laughable because these are the sort of matches we’ve had all season and people have seen him as the solution to something he’s failed so many times to solve.
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Ouch don’t let @Cristo see that.
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The Ozil only had 1 good season argument because he was absolutely elite in 15/16 is one of the most simplistic pathetic arguments I’ve ever come across in my time as an Arsenal fan.
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Why is being hardworking a bad thing, the English game is different to other leagues and as such you can’t just be technically good, you also have to be willing to put a shift in especially if you don’t want your team to be basically playing with ten men.
All the best players in this league (barring maybe some sort of one in a thousand exception which I can’t think of) have to work hard, which is why Alexis was the much better player and more valuable than Ozil ever was.
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Going on transfer market it says he has
5 goals 6 assists vs City
2 goals 7 assists vs Chelsea
And I cba to do the rest, judging debruyne has a low amount of apps is this a little outdated?
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Then that’s down to those that have those kind of expectations tbh.
I too hoped that signing him was the dawn of something special for the club mate but I didn’t put that soley on his shoulders, what I hoped/expected was that the club would push on in terms of recruitment and build a team around Ozil and Sanchez that would finally lead us to the title and beyond which they never did. Like I said he was never a driving force see his years at Real where be became the best #10 in the world, however, he was the guy that made others better by being the main conductor.
As for the off the field stuff I agree that there’s little excuse for that but in terms of his on the pitch contribution he played his part.
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