Mesut Ozil dropped a beast of a press release about his treatment over the World Cup issues. His angst seems to centre around his belief that his Turkish heritage has made him a scapegoat for a shit show from the national team. He also seems very upset at the damage the picture of him with the Turkish President has done, particularly with charity partners who have abandoned him.
I feel for him. The racist overtones in the press are awful, it’s unfair that his performances at the World Cup are seen through dual nationality. However, I can’t feel for him losing partners. Standing tall with authoritarianism was an ignorant move. Whether he was badly advised, or he just didn’t think it through, when you align with a tyrant, you’ve opened yourself up to criticism. Erdogan is a monster, he is savaging Turkish institutions that protect democracy and regardless of where your heritage sits, to be seen as normalizing that with a photo opp is beyond stupid.
Where he does have a point is that in a society that’s said fuck it to consequences for behaviour in poor taste, it’s interesting that a German-Turk gets the full force of alienation. Still, I struggle with whataboutism when it comes to monsters. Mesut’s reasoning for the photo is that he didn’t want to disrespect his ancestry. I find that weak. He might think it’s just a cute pic for the family, but for others, it was normalising a tyrant. Tell your story of ‘I didn’t think of anything other than the pic’ to the jailed judges, civil servants and free press.
Ozil has a massive PR job on his hands, I’m not sure he’s going to shift sentiment with juvenile PR releases that seem to lack a north star. He should own the mistake, make a statement on the pitch and try and and remedy the broken trust with the German public with actions.
In CEO news, the Ivan G story won’t budge with Corriere stating he’s the choice for AC Milan and he’ll head there this September. Now this has been rolling in the media for a week without a firm statement of denial, you have to wonder if the smoke is starting to choke out the truth.
I’d still be surprised if he moved. It’d be a desperately poor show of leadership. He’s spent 9 months in real control of the club. He’s pulled in executives from around the world to guide his vision, luring them based on the trust he’ll be here to support the project. To duck out at the first glamorous door knock would tell you a lot about who is really is if he does it. He’ll be leaving a junior project rudderless, which in the short term could be damaging especially if the new manager doesn’t pan out. More to the point, CEO search and select isn’t a two-week process. It takes months. You have to craft plans, interview with a load of people, meet and greet staff and negotiate complicated compensation deals. If this story is true, he’s been making extremely long-term decisions for Arsenal with his head in AC Milan clouds. That’s really shitty if true.
In the grand scheme of things, it’s not a big deal. He’s been a solid administrator. He’s overseen a tough stadium move and we’re A-Ok. But really, can you say he blew it out the park? It took him 12 years to convince Stan that Wenger was a dud. He oversaw a train wreck transfer policy, he allowed Wenger to grow a ridiculous socialist wage policy, he was ineffectual at implementing a rugged football infrastructure and he lied to the fans over and over again. Not just that, look at our commercial deals. Hardly inspiring, are they?
He has the chance at to shape his legacy at a club he can become a legend. I hope he stays on, but if he doesn’t, it’s an opportunity to hire in someone who can find that elusive next level.
Finally, Arsenal is linked to the very sexy Yann Sommer. The 29-year-old Swiss was excellent at the world cup and he’d move as competition to Leno. That’d give me some relief.
Right, I’m ducking out. x
Saying Gazidis oversaw the stadium move is giving him more credit than is due. We moved into the Emirates in 2006, Gazidis didnt start until 2009.
“His 35 million follower boys, who of course do not exist in the real world, think he has played excellently if he plays a cross to a man.”
Excellent summary from the Bayern president regarding Ozil.
“He last won a tackle before the 2014 World Cup. And now he hides himself and his c*** performance behind this photo.‘
For me it’s Ozils lack of overall intelligence on the pitch. He can’t look at a game and think ‘this isn’t working’. He just keeps firing the crosses.
He doesn’t change his game when the game changes. Sometimes you have to stop trying one thing and maybe start chasing the ball down and pressing to help the team out. He doesn’t. He just keeps drifting.
Victorious
You have no clue. Liberals want more government, conservatives want less government.
Liberals want socialism, conservatives want capitalism.
Liberals wants ban on certain speeches, cons want free speech.
Liberals want welfare, cons want no part of it.
If you want socialism, bans and welfare, you are definitely for more government.
Bamford 10July 22, 2018 17:19:03
Jesus this place. Erdogan is neither an Islamist nor a “jihadist”…
Bamford – well said.
Sanmi, You have been sucked into the right wing narrative. Liberalism does not mean socialism – if anything it stands for freedom. The Labour Party in Britain stands for socialism. The right pushes the argument that they stand for freedom and less intervention but this is so clearly not true. Consider why the right wing want Brexit, they can’t stand the EU having any influence and want more power for themselves. Greater ‘sovereignty’ means more power for them. Look at the right wing press, do they really represent freedom? More a mouthpiece for the establishment. We’re living in scary times… Read more »
BobN16
How about you start talking about 2018 Liberalism and not what it used to stand for in good times?
Why do you think right wing parties are winning elections the World over? No, its not because all these billions of voters are ignorant fools being brainwashed by the evil media.
See the thing is: Most of those swelling the ranks of the Right and Far Right are not Right-wing, they’re centrists. But they have no alternative to halting the utter insanity that is Left-wing politics.
Smh. The people that hate Ozil. lol. Bayern president being a complete fool.
What has Ozil contributed in the 5 seasons he’s been at Arsenal.
Bob
If you can’t see the insanity in the feminists movement, gender fluidity, black lives matter, bathroom confusions etc then I can’t help you.
Liberalism is not in the words, it’s in the actions. They endorse zero liberty except you are towing their lines.
I have had these idiots call me racist for not agreeing to their BS movement
Rambo “See the thing is: Most of those swelling the ranks of the Right and Far Right are not Right-wing, they’re centrists. But they have no alternative to halting the utter insanity that is Left-wing politics” Oh dear. Whatever happened to remaining in the middle as independent minded. Actually most of the people swelling the ranks of the right and extreme tight are bigots just coming out in;the open, They are people who want society to remain “where it used to be “, you know “those good old days” As it turns out those good days where people like me… Read more »
Redtruth, ozil has contributed alot. He might not have done a lot.. (pun intended).
Ozil is the definition of contribution. He literally is the king of assists. That’s contributing.
Did he actually say that? That is scathing criticism from the Bayern president. Guess he ain’t going there anytime soon
I’m telling you don’t engage Sanmi Sanmi’s a cunt
Dissenter
Bigotry means intolerance towards another view.
Take a deep breath and ask yourself, who wants to force their views on you?
Who wants you to use their pronouns? Who hunts and abuse you when you don’t agree with them? Which Speaker is being banned from campuses?
Who’s categorizing others view as hate speech?
Who’s name calling?
All these things are more on the liberal/Democrats side. Now they wanna force us to believe they are women when I can see a penis
Marko
Because you are incapable of a coherent debate
Apparently a German politician also called Ozil “a goat fucker” however, our resident fucktards on here believe it’s fair criticism.
If Ozil has a CR7, and a team that can carry him and make up for his total absence when they haven’t got the ball, then he will assist.
If you need to dig in and chase a game or if teams target him he’s non existent.
But that may be wengers fault for not choosing when to play him. Hopefully Emery has more of a plan.
His 35 million follower boys, who of course do not exist in the real world, think he has played excellently if he plays a cross to a man.”
That’s a chance created right there. It’s almost like the Bayern president has been having arguments with Pierre here
Apparently a German politician also called Ozil “a goat fucker” however, our resident fucktards on here believe it’s fair criticism.
No one has said that’s acceptable.
From his prespective, If Ozil doesn’t have the best season of his career this year just to show how clueless some of the critics like Uli are, then he’s a fucking sponge. No pressure.
Apparently Victorious knows more about football than the President of one of the worlds biggest clubs. This is just AKBs vs WOBs all over again. Notice that about 3 days after Wenger was SACKED, they all came out saying “well, we’ve known for years that it was time for Wenger to go, we just wont be disrespectful” Absolute fucking bollocks, until the day he was sacked you were all defending him and sucking him off all day. Same thing with Ozil. The world is starting to wake up to what a nothing player he is. If you take away the… Read more »
Sanmi “If you can’t see the insanity in the feminists movement, gender fluidity, black lives matter, bathroom confusions etc then I can’t help you.” You sir have to be considered a useful idiot What an ignorant statement. Go ask Amadou Diallo’s parent why he deserved 19 bullets for just sitting on a porch unarmed in NYC in 1999. American policing is far from perfect in many areas, to put it nicely. I have a lot of friends who are in law enforcement and they privately admit that the way American police manage minority populations ought to change. It’s one that… Read more »
Marko Why bother? Haven’t you learnt from their pro-Wenger days this is their tactic, ignore points that they find tricky and just make claims that no one actually made. Wait for the next time you’re in an Ozil debate and someone will ask ‘so you think what has been said by some Germans is acceptable?’ As if you said that. Those comments from the Munich president! Wow. I think there seems to be have been real issues in that Germany team before the World Cup because that is a boiling over rant at a player he clearly has been displeased… Read more »
Chelsea were offering hazard 300k per week. Look what he gives to the team.
Ozil gets 350k and he can rock a chances created stat (against certain opposition).
“No one has said that’s acceptable.”
Evidently, you decided against reading his statements rather you jumped on a cheap narrative and started to mouth off.
Didn’t the Real Madrid president call Ozil weak minded when they sold him? I’m sure I remember something about that.
Apart from running around looking busy and serious and “putting a shift”, want to see what KDB, Erikson and the rest of them wonderful no10s actually do defensively.
Uli Hoeneß:
Bundesliga: 1971–72, 1972–73, 1973–74
DFB-Pokal: 1970–71
European Cup: 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76
Intercontinental Cup: 1976
International
West Germany
FIFA World Cup winner: 1974
UEFA European Championship winner: 1972;
Remember Gazidis took the CEO’s job that no-one else wanted. Maybe nine years of it drained his desire for Arsenal. It either will have or it won’t have. If it has, there is nothing to do but leave and start afresh somewhere where the frustrations can be got rid of. The other question is what, precisely, you need from a CEO at Arsenal these days? No finance to raise, sponsorship deals are commercial director stuff. A competent Chairman can pretty much oversee board level activities, Board Members oversee everything below. It may be the structures put in place remove the… Read more »
Danny S, can you tell us what Hazard gives to Chelsea?
A lot of people are ignorant as to how effective a good team system can make an individual player seem.
Agreed Sanmi. The liberals are pushing a control system where “tolerance” means punishment for anything that disagrees with them. The “tolerance” movement preaches acceptance and practices bigotry. I find it unfortunate that in Britain particularly, there is a default to supporting labour if you support football. There’s such a historical class divide on sporting lines that you have to work much harder to actually evaluate economic and political positions. The intellectual framework behind free market / capitalist thinking is superb, but there seem to be only a minority capable of getting their heads around it, and governments are elected by… Read more »
I would take any one of those over Ozil in a heart beat.
It says it all when he wasn’t linked to a single team when his contract was running down.
Dissenter, Do you understand the concept of voting? Its an either-or scenario. This is not about ME, its about why right wing parties are gaining popularity. People have grown sick of Leftist politics and the response is what you see as election results. In 5-10 years time, the right wing parties will be taught a lesson in the next elections if needs be. That’s the beauty of democracy. Majority of populations are intelligent and can make rational choices. Something Leftists are unable to comprehend or accept. No, they’d rather claim people are morons or misguided or cave-dwellers etc. “Actually most… Read more »
Kevin DeBruyne completes nearly twice as many defensive actions per PL game as Mesut Ozil.
Ditto for Christan Eriksen.
Both are significantly better attackers….yet both put in 90% more defensive work than lazy Mesut.
Evidently, you decided against reading his statements rather you jumped on a cheap narrative and started to mouth off.
What are you talking about no one around here is criticizing him for the Erdogan stuff it’s his shit world cup and his even shitter Arsenal performances that are being criticized. That you bring up something about fucking a goat shows the direction you want to take it. Not going there
Pierre is going to be mailing the Bayern President “chances created” stats soon.
“Pierre is going to be mailing the Bayern President “chances created” stats soon.”
🙂 Haha.
CA Uli’s comments to me suggests that people in German football haven’t been happy with his application and desire for a long long time. Nothing to do with the Erdogan stuff it seems like they’ve been questioning him for a while now. I could not find anything wrong with what Uli said
“The intellectual framework behind free market / capitalist thinking is superb, but there seem to be only a minority capable of getting their heads around it, and governments are elected by sheep-minded majorities. The success of a country is ultimately guided by the collective industry of individuals, not the power-handed rule of an elected government.”
f*ckin’ hell, Ayn Rand alive and well and posting on an Arsenal blog…
Going to the De Bruyne place wasn’t the smartest. Really impressed with what Guardiola has got out of him, all round CM type almost now.
Eriksen as well has developed under Pochettino to become a well rounded midfield player.
Back to footy It’s wrong to throw away the baby with the bath water. The Bayern president weent too far with some of the criticisms he leveled against Ozil. However the specific footballing critiques were spot-on “Ozil has been s*** for years. He won his last tackle before the 2014 WC. “ “When we play Arsenal we focus on him, because we know he is a weak spot” These are representative of what many (including my humble self 🙂 ) have been saying of him for five years. People just love to idolize him. Some even count his cross into… Read more »
lol blockhead
Marko I don’t know about the sentiments in Germany but I think a big part of this is that Ozil comes across as an arrogant character. He is very in your face in terms of a personality on social media, he is very commercial, holds himself out as a great player, the Beckham of Germany basically in terms of popularity etc, with that comes enormous expectation and pressure. Quite rightly. Its not reward, reward, reward, reward with no responsibility. His attitude on the field has always been a problem, Mourinho called him a coward, the Madrid president had a go,… Read more »
Rambo
You seem to forget there’s a MIDDLE where MOST rationale people exist. People that think liberals and right wing minded people go too far. That’s my point.
I take exception to your attempts to normalize the far right.
You are the one smearing conservative minded people when you lump them with the “far right” who are just carefully worded bigots.
That’s where I also disagree with your statement.
I tend to vote for common sense conservatives in local elections.
Let’s separate Ozil’s football performance from the politics and ethnic issues, which have risen their ugly head over last few weeks. Ozil’s football performance for Germany and for Arsenal this season has not been great. However, when ex German players and the so called football establishment describe it as “s..t you know that there is a lot more going on. Let’s start off with the President of Bayern’s latest outburst. I did not see him comment about the abject performance of several of his club players. Muller has been poor all season, Boateng had a fairly dreadful World Cup and… Read more »
Pedro On Gazidis: Firstly, it would be baffling if he left now after having restructured the club essentially. What we have now at arsenal is Ivan’s vision. Secondly, to quote you ‘It took him 12 years to convince Stan that Wenger was a dud. He oversaw a train wreck transfer policy, he allowed Wenger to grow a ridiculous socialist wage policy, he was ineffectual at implementing a rugged football infrastructure and he lied to the fans over and over again. Not just that, look at our commercial deals. Hardly inspiring, are they?’ I agree 100% but could you be more… Read more »
Brilliant comments about Ozil from Bayern president.
Basically everything I’ve said about the twat since he joined. Crossing merchant and Bayern absolutely loved playing against him.
Hoeness also revealed that Bayern target Ozil – who has only been on the winning side twice in 17 matches against the German giants – whenever they play Arsenal. “Whenever we played against Arsenal, we played over him, because we know he’s the weak point” HOLY BALLS Fking deleted! When one of the most successful players in German history who happens to be the President of one very top teams in the world, meaning the guy has made it in every sense of the word and probably knows a thing or two about the game, says something like this, you’re… Read more »
“You are the one smearing conservative minded people when you lump them with the “far right” who are just carefully worded bigots.”
I did no such thing.
Not the first time though that you respond before reading properly and are left with egg on face.
AH
I agree.
No way Gazidis goes now, he’s just got everything he wants.
And it was probably the last two years that he turned against Wenger fully, no doubt he was frustrated the whole time by having little say and having Wenger control everything but I think he really turned when he saw the damage Wenger was doing to Arsenal at every level. No UCL, season ticket demand drop off, low attendance, apathy, huge wastage in resources, players not being optimised, amateur transfer and contract handling etc.
I would like to see how Erikson, Kdb, Hazard and the others would have performed under Wenger the last three years without proper training information and blueprint. (I remember how awful Hazard was under the Jose implosion job at Chelsea.)
I would also like to have seen how Ozil would have done in a Guardiola team because he was excellent in Mourinho’s Madrid for 3 seasons.
Bit ironic that another “express yourself” coach came in at Madrid and binned him.
Dissenter
I’d be in dubai in winter. Are you coming? We can hook up and chat away
Why are people shocked by Ozils take on the Germans?
@Pierre
I sincerely hope that Emery manages to get the best out of Ozil. However, if Ozil continues to lack the heart and fight, then we all know there’s only one solution.
Mourinho called him the best no10 in the world
Cesc
I’ve never been convinced by Gazidis.
He’s always come across as a smart Alec with no substance. Great in board room meetings I’m sure, but a poor communicator at fan level.
I’d love to be proven wrong of course.
Will his new structure and staff picks work out?
I hope so.
Rambo I wonder why you will deny something you just wrote a few minutes ago. You wrote: “See the thing is: Most of those swelling the ranks of the Right and Far Right are not Right-wing, they’re centrists. But they have no alternative to halting the utter insanity that is Left-wing politics You conflated right wing (conservatives) with the far-right when you pumped them together in your sentence. You even referred to both as “centrists” You way want to redefine “centricism” You did smear conservatives by that appalling statement. There’s no egg on ,h face mate. Just calling out your… Read more »
The endless excuses for Ozil are hilarious. Firstly, it was that he needed better players around him. Then it was that no-one understands what he does (manipulates space, harnesses the power of shadows or some other vague bollocks) Now its that Wenger wasnt the right manager for him. Ozil has been given a complete bye by Arsene to do noo defensive work for years. He is allowed to hang around in the final third and he still struggles to score & create good chances. Since Christmas 2016, he has 20 assists in 2.5 seasons. Thats averaging 8 per season. I’ll… Read more »
Lol,its a no brainer. Any proper coach and team will get the best out of Ozil and all other players. There are freaks like Messi and Ronaldo but basically everyone plays within a functional system. Germany have been getting the best out of Ozil for 8 years. They became a shambles in year 9 and look at the result. When a player in a team with a functional system fails, that’s when you call him shit. Not when he has excelled in every team he has played bar 1 (where everyone else failed) and suddenly he is shit. Mind, he… Read more »
‘Now its that Wenger wasnt the right manager for him’
Despite the fact the same characters argued as aggressively as they are now about Ozil for Wenger to stay on and that criticism of him was unfair.
Sanmi
Do an extensive road tour in the US, drive from coast to coast in a very nice car.
Then tell me if your view about black lives matter doesn’t change.
You’re speaking about things that affect people on a daily manner from 6,000 miles away like it’s a joke.
Funny enough, I’ll be spending Christmas in Dubai. Maybe we can meet up. That will be great.
AH Last summer I did lose a lot of hope in Gazidis. But I think he has done brilliantly since then, he quietly got on with getting rid of Wenger and because of him we got Mislintat, Sanellhi and most importantly a new manager and new coaches. When you think about what the club looked like this time last year and then now, the transformation is remarkable. If we get back in the UCL this year which I think we will, I personally think we will finish in the UCL places and win the Europa League, then there are not… Read more »
Cesc
“I think we’re on the same path Liverpool were when Klopp took over. Going to be a rough couple of years in terms of success and then confusing failures but we’re on the right path now.”
Couldn’t agree more
That’s the pragmatic view.
It’s going to take a lot of time to unravel the misdeeds of the past and build good institutions within the club.
We have to be patient.
Even Wenger is agreeing now that he may have overstayed at Arsenal
Whether u like Ozil or not the comments from both Hoeness and the German politician are uncalled for. Didn’t Hoeness serve a 3yr prison term for tax evasion? why do some always bring WOB or AKB when opinions defer.
yeah, de brune and Eriksson have performed better than Ozil past seasons. But be sincere to yourselves, prior to their success in the PL, if Ozil in Madrid and the above mentioned players were available whom will u have wished the club sign. #isupportmesutozil
classless from Hoeness
Dissenter, I was talking about it in relation to Elections and voting choices. You must have missed the previous paragraph. Just to take as example: I voted for right wing party in my nation( they absolutely crushed the ruling party btw )because I was/am disgusted with what the Left has become. This is probably what’s happening the World over too. Centrists teaming up with right wing to bring the left to its knees. But hey, it could be your explanation that’s the truth: All these people are bigots coming out into the open in their quest to take the World… Read more »
Dissenter
I’m excited by it all.
For the first time I honestly don’t know where Arsenal are heading but what I do know is that for the first time in over a decade the club are now trying to better themselves and to progress and to be successful.
That is all I ever wanted out of Arsenal.
Ramsey
I take you at your word.
Cheers
We could or should have been better (tactically) prepared in our encounters against Bayern but fingering Özil out as a weak link is bollocks. They could have targeted any of our starting 11.
Those Bayern sides were simply better, man for man.
Bayern’s president is just backing his mates at the FA.
That said if we got a good offer for any of our current lot – Özil, Ramsey etc. – we should sell, I feel no affinity for any of them. They’re all Wengerised underperformers.
Loris Karius on Instagram: “To those who take joy in seeing other people fail or suffer, I feel for you. Whatever it is that’s happening in your life to hold this much anger and hate, I pray that it passes and good things come to you.” #LFC”
One has to feel for him from the humanistic view point.
He just needs to run away from Liverpool. They have an expensively acquired goal keeper already.
It’s only going to get worse.
He needs to restart his career else where. He’s done in England.
Wonder why Kante is not decimated for not scoring enough goals or playing through balls
Mystic
He does more than that.
His mistakes practically loses games for his team.
Gazidis hid behind Wenger for his whole time at Arsenal and if he leaves now as soon as his lanky French pavise has gone then what does that tell you. Seen a few above say he has been great since Wenger left. I would say he has been competent, no more, no less. Results over the next year will show if hes been any good. If he leaves to go to AC Milan then i couldnt give two shits. He’s hardly irreplaceable and its not like he’s done a great job commercially either. Dont let the door hit you on… Read more »
Raheem
I can’t wait to see Ramsey in the new set up. I hope I’m not wrong but he’s goi g to be a new player.
“Despite the fact the same characters argued as aggressively as they are now about Ozil for Wenger to stay on and that criticism of him was unfair.”
who said Wenger should stay on? You have already said you don’t like Ozil and you have also said he’s not shit so your criticisms about him is based on emotions
Mystic
Disregard my last post agreed to you.
That was for the fairies
Ozil does come across as a bit of a doofus. Don’t get me wrong- I find it an embarrassment people crying over who he takes pictures with. But there was no need for him to respond to the outrage at all.
As for the retirement news- You are a sportsman, assess your own performance, be honest, tell everyone that you may have let your country down and as such are setting down the shorts and sleeves.
Instead he’s combined separate issues, played the Victim card and made it worse.
“Since Christmas 2016, he has 20 assists in 2.5 seasons. Thats averaging 8 per season.
I’ll say again, apart from the first 5 months of the 15/16 season, Ozil has been a complete nobody in English football.”
The same period we had a striker everyone wanted us to bin, had Welbeck, iwobi and others that has been pilloried on here as forward options and most importantly had a coach that everyone agreed was past his sell by date and was not interested in tactics and systems?
Ozil the magician!
Gazidis is going no where.
He’s one of the best paid CEOs in Europe already.
Why will he leave for a club in a horrible mess, which is Milan.
The ownership structure is not even well defined.
He’s just dropping these stories in the media to redo his contract.
Fuck off Hoeness, have a go at some of your own underperforming players.
With you Kay…..pretty much nobody is saying Ozil’s been great the last couple of years but the relentless battering is ridiculous. Some of the posts on here, e.g. Gambon, are so vitriolic, it borders on hatred.
I, with many others, will be singing his name, first game of the season. I want him to have a blinding season (he plays for Arsenal!) which will have the additional benefit of proving all the haters wrong – miserable individuals.
No biggie dissenter.
Hazard (who WE calls the best in the league – which in itself is hilarious ) had a shit season and looked like a pub player the season Chelsea finished 10th. Heaven did not fall.
Surprise surprise, next season, a proper manager was hired who knew what he was doing and he looked better.
Messi finished 2nd with Tata Martino and was ordinary through out the season. Coach was changed and new tactics installed and he roars back.
Wonder how they do that.
Ozil did say that he’s learned how the media works in his statement (paraphrased).
He certainly could have handled it better.
Some people wait until they write their memoirs before saying the things he said.
Oh wait, he has already written his memoirs and he’s only 29 years old.
Wenger to his credit could have written 10 books in his 22 years at Arsenal but he was principled enough to keep everything away and do his job.
People like Ozil on the other hand have already written their autobiography before they are even done.
Dissenter
I’m sure he’s enjoying the ego trip as well.
I am a bit confused about this statement. “Erdogan is a monster”. If he is, why is he democratically elected by their people. Turkey is not a third world country.
I admit that the timing of the photo is bad. Ozil is being used for political reason. If you are a Turk, you’ll understand Ozil’s behavior.
Cesc I’m looking forward to next season and I expect us to improve. However, I think it will very difficult to finish top four. City are out of sight and utd will continue to spend their way into contention. We’ll have to finish above two of Liverpool, spurs and Chelsea. With our current squad that will be tough. Personnel wise, the squad still looks a bit lightweight and diminutive to me. I know it worked in a few games, but i’m not really happy with the Auba / lacazette combination up front, whether it’s both or either/or. Also, we still… Read more »
The double standards by the german FA is ridiculous. If he was so shit in wc 2014, why was he not dropped from the starting 11 and instead played wide? Did germany did not have a better wide player than ozil?
Such a shame some of them are supporting it.
I am not a big fan of ozil but the guy is a baller and was wasted by wenger.
As I said, I will give him another season before shouting #ozilout.
We have players like welbeck, Iwobi in the squad and yet we want one of our best player out.
Kay
“The double standards by the german FA is ridiculous. If he was so shit in wc 2014, why was he not dropped from the starting 11 and instead played wide? Did germany did not have a better wide player than ozil?”
Joachim Low same agent as Ozil. Turkish set-up.
May have been a bit of favouritism from Low to the player.
No international football = more time for holibobs.
Ozil retired before he was left out of next squad?
I would like to take this opportunity on LeGrove to announce my retirement from international football.
AH It will be tough without doubt but I think we’ve got a good manager and good coaches now. The whole season will be one long learning process for the manager and his coaches. I think Spurs might suffer a bit this year with a lack of transfers, stadium move and World Cup fatigue. Chelsea are in a bit of a mess right now, but we will see. Our spending will start next year if we get back into the UCL. That would mean UCL money, new kit deal money, new commercials, more tele money, the Rwanda deal money etc… Read more »
Sanmi,
“I’d be in dubai in winter. Are you coming? We can hook up and chat away”
But that’s where dangerous arabs wanting to invade Europe are based… Hypocrite. A racist one of that.
@Ishola
Hypothetically if what you say is correct then the fa should have sacked Low. Why dint they do it?
Park Chu-young’s left testicle
“Ozil retired before he was left out of next squad?”
Yes very likely he would have been dropped from the squad anyway.
That’s even with the previous Jogi favouritism.
He’s getting on now 30 in a few months.
Of course certain folks on here don’t want to entertain that he would have been discarded by the Germans anyway.
Rather go on about their favourite topic = identity politics.
Although some of the stuff coming out from the German end is unprofessional and over the top.
Kay
“Hypothetically if what you say is correct then the fa should have sacked Low. Why dint they do it?£
They may still think he has something to offer regardless of Mesut Ozil.
The world doesn’t revolve around Mesut Ozil.
As said in previous post think the Low-Ozil love-in would have been ditched anyway after this recent World Cup.
We need to qualify for CL at all cost. Ozil Auba Mikki Kos Papa.. All need to be replaced in the next 2 or 3 years. Its not easy for Emery. I would assume Emery would be targetting Europa instead of league to achieve CL qualification.
Ishola
“They may still think he has something to offer regardless of Mesut Ozil”
This is where I am coming from. If Low thinks there are no better wide players than Ozil then he should have been sacked for wc 2014. Luckily they won it and its so stupid to come out and say that Ozil was shit after 4yrs.
Ishola70
You do have a habit of passing your opinions as fact.
Chika-Chik
Do I really need to put “in my opinion” after every post?
It’s bleeding obvious a lot of the posts on here are posters opinion.
Don’t be dumb.