Buying Ozil was a mistake
Ozil was a last minute panic buy by Wenger. A player in a position we didn't need to strengthen. He isn't playing to his best ability at Arsenal either. His main strength is through balls to fast runners, like it was with CR7. There are no such players at Arsenal except Walcott, who rarely plays. You can quote stats all you like about his key passes. In this Arsenal team Ramsey, Sanchez, Cazorla would've had better stats and a much better overall contribution than Ozil if they played as N10. I can name at least 3 players at Arsenal who would be better as No10 -
Ramsey - he's creative, a goal scorer, much better defensively, much better work rate,
Sanchez - well, he shits all over Ozil
Cazorla - he's already done it before and saved our asses in his first season at Arsenal
Everyone had a hard on anticipating a partnership between Sanchez and Ozil. But there isn't one (except maybe that goal vs Reading I think, in FA cup). Sanchez isn't really a winger. He's better suited to No10 position. If he played as a shadow striker behind Giroud he'd be scoring 30+ goals and getting 20+ assists per season.
If there was a bid of £40-50m for Ozil I'd sell him in a heart beat. And get a proper winger, be it Pedro, or even freaking Draxler, and have some money left over.
I remember when Cazorla was playing on the wing I was saying he'd be much better in central midfield. Everyone rolled their eyes. Even after Cazorla had an excellent game in that position against some Turkish club in CL. It's the sheepish mentality of many Arsenal fans, they just go into denial. Plus flogging Ozil would de congest the midfield a bit. If Sanchez and Ramsey were rotating in No10, Wishere would be getting more game time rotating with Cazorla in CM.
I know most would say something like "YOU'RE CLUELESS, OZIL IS WORLD CLASS". But they'd be the clueless ones, just a bunch of brainwashed puppets.
Besides no one's denying Ozil's quality, he's just not well suited to this Arsenal team. Plus we have better players than him.
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Wow, ok, say no more.
I would normally argue with almost anyone. But you leave me speechless, I actually feel sorry for you. You're bending reality in your head to suit your delusion. You need counselling, you have issues.
Anyway, I hope Ozil's injury is serious and he doesn't play any more games, so that Arsenal can continue playing well without that useless muppet.
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Touche, my "friend."
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Wow wishing one of our players gets injured, true class.
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Already we're blessed enough to lose talented players to injury (Wilshere, Cazorla, Rosicky to name few)... and here comes another...
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And if anyone talks about stats...
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Stats show he is a good player. But since he is probably not going to sign a contract extension. I'd rather use him in a swap deal for someone who can succeed him or someone we need like Goretzka.
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