I stopped the match from the moment he entered, I just watched it, what he is doing‚ where he is running, how he is positioning. I swear I didn’t see a single move that would benefit the team.
In fact, it is the fault of the fans by putting myself first. We all came to the gas of his name and even followed his plane in the air. I hope we can follow the departure flight soon…
Let him go‚ let him play in The Walking Dead.
I think separation will be the right decision for both parties. This process was carried out wrong from the beginning to the end, and happy was unnecessarily worn out by the incompetent and complex teachers. After this hour, this seam will not hold and this issue should be resolved as soon as possible.
translated from Turkish so not perfectly readable, but you get the gist
I see, you should have added it for more context.
That’s interesting. I haven’t kept up with Ozil. Unless something pops up on Twitter I don’t go out of my way to see what he’s up to.
Poor Fenerbache really picked up the shitty end of the stick when they signed this toxic overpaid prick.
I’m probably in a minority on here but I really despise this guy and for me he typifies the worst of the overpaid only here for the money culture that grips too many footballers these days.
It’s funny how a lot of people rate his time at Arsenal.
I feel especially bitter about all his last 3 years with us on his new contract. He took 54m, fell out with three managers and couldn’t be bothered to try hard enough to be justify being a regular starter.
Even before that, for every good game he had it too often felt like he had a poor one and he rarely performed well against top opponents which contributed heavily to our poor record against them. He frustrated the hell out of me from early on but not helped by my high initial expectations of him.
Have to accept though his assist stats were especially high in the season we came second to Leicester but felt Cazorla always flattered him by feeding him well when he wasn’t injured.
I know many rave about him. My son used to love him early days while I used to slate him. He definitely divides opinion. Having watched the likes of Bergkamp for so long before him I think I was maybe spoilt and have unrealistic expectations on a number 10.
I’d argue Santi Cazorla and Sanchez were the stars who allowed Ozil to sometimes flatter.
Once Cazorla was out and Sanchez gone/in decline Ozil looked a lot less good.
But as we can see I’m biased against Ozil so I find it hard to see any good in his spell at Arsenal which is perhaps a little unfair on his early years.
I absolutely loved watching Ozil in his pomp and you really can’t argue with his quality. But he was also sort of symbolic of the whole late Wenger era in that the quality coexisted with some pretty significant deficiencies.
He only started >25 league matches for us in two of his seven seasons. He did more running than often credited but he was definitely a liability defensively, both positionally and in terms of actually getting stuck in if necessary.
I wish it hadn’t ended so poorly but also don’t want to romanticize him. I loved watching him play but I think he was a less effective player than his highlight reels would indicate. In terms of PL 10s of that era, David Silva and, hate to say it, Christian Eriksen were less easy on the eye but contributed more to their teams winning football matches.
I think it was only the second half of the season when our performance level dropped off a lot. His injury was a key reason for us not winning the league that year along with us not signing Suarez to lead the line.
I suspect Ozils stats will show he still did well after Cazorla got injured even if not quite so well.
You guys are reframing the history a bit.
People said it didn’t make sense to keep Ozil out of the squad when
the squad had no attacking midfielder till we brought in ESR & Odegaard. They could have kept Ozil unregistered in Jan. His absence did cost us points and European football.
I don’t know how much of a win it was to purposely sabotage our chances & then come up with the worst outcome.
There was no one better than Ozil in midfield apart from Partey. That was even more true in the Emery era, when Partey was not in the fold.
What Ozil achieved post his departure is irrelevant because we demonstrably showed that there was no one who was able to step up in his absence, not even our 45m pound signing Partey.
Emery really, just a shame Emery didn’t have the cojones to cast Ozil into the cold while progressing us further as a club. Coming back for Ozil that night in Baku was genuinely one of the most small dick moves I’ve seen at our club
