Mesut Özil

Pogue Mahone said:
Maybe going for a spine transplant?

Why isn't he getting treated by the Arsenal medical team anyway? Did they forget to register them too?
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Given Arsenal's medical team's record, I doubt many Gunners will mind him being dealt with by a third party! :lol:
Eboue said:
So maybe he actually was injured, wankers
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Ah Eboue! :lol:
 
Just sack all the medical staff. Now.

Ozil said he'd always wanted to play at Wembley. Probably won't play again this season on the 'whatever they tell us, double it' rule.
 
So it's now Wilshere, Gibbs, Monreal, Ramsey, Walcott, Ozil, Sanogo, Bendtner, Rosicky(picked up a knock tonight.)

Oh and just to pre-empt the posting of Neil Ashton's article, which I won't link to to give him the credit, what a complete idiot.
 
Snipers Breath said:
Ramsey is their most important player, and he is back next game.
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Most important and best are slightly different things. If everyone is fit then Arsenal probably have more quality cover for Ozil than Ramsey but Ozil is still their best player (at least when he's in proper form).
 
Twigginater said:
Neil Ashton's article is absolutely bang on. Nailed it.
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:lol:

A couple of weeks ago there was an article in the Mail about how Ozil didn't run at all and didn't care.

Beneath someone posted a list of kilometres run by Arsenal players this season, as an average per game.

Guess who was top.

This is genuinely one of the weirdest media agendas out there - people have started to believe that he's been awful this season. He's had worse press than Putin over the last fortnight.
 
i'm not sure if some of the criticism levelled at ozil is in response to the fact that we passed up on him but it certainly feels that way sometimes
 
Well done to The Sun who went with both an amusing and accurate headline. Maybe they actually watched the game.

Ashton's article was clearly written earlier in the day and was held just in case he scored the winner or something.
 
Gladiator said:
i'm not sure if some of the criticism levelled at ozil is in response to the fact that we passed up on him but it certainly feels that way sometimes
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I think its his attitude. Ive been quite critical of him because players like that irritate me on the field. Yes they can look great for one game, but then others, especially big ones they look like they dont care and cant play at all. The opposite of players like Viera, Drogba, Henry,Vidic,Lampard,Gerrard, Rooney etc - Big game players.
 
alastair said:
Well done to The Sun who went with both an amusing and accurate headline. Maybe they actually watched the game.

Ashton's article was clearly written earlier in the day and was held just in case he scored the winner or something.
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The Mirror one is written by chief Arsenal fanboi John Cross though.....
 
I feel for him to be honest. He is being heavily scrutinized and has been since the moment he has come to England. Undoubtedly there will be pressure seeing he is Arsene's and Arsenal most expensive signing of all time - especially considering the outcry for Wenger to spend big over the past few years.

To be honest, I don't feel as if he has done as bad a job as some of these media outlet make seem. He is still a great player and considering all the talk about how tough the Premier League is to settle into, I feel as if he has done a decent job so far.

My question is, considering this injury, and the massive media hype about his 'bad form' will this affect his starting place in the German XI come the World Cup? I'm asking because this spell is coinciding with a pretty good spell for other German players like Gotze, Kroos, Draxler etc. What do you all think? Presuming the injury won't rule him out for a long period of time, will he make Germany's starting 11?
 
alastair said:
He's an odd one. He's a Gooner but in order to appear neutral he spends his entire time predicting we'll lose every game.

And reporters don't write headlines.
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If you say so. But just by reading that little bit he says Ozil had "another woeful display".... and he's clearly accusing Arsenal of making the injury up too.
 
Getting more than a bit sick of this continual anti-foreigner stuff in the red-tops.
 
Sixpence said:
If you say so. But just by reading that little bit he says Ozil had "another woeful display".... and he's clearly accusing Arsenal of making the injury up too.
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I know. It's baffling - it's confirmed he's out for a few weeks at least.

Wenger's too proud to take a player off at half time. He never does it, really.

My main gripe with all of this is how whenever Ozil plays well, it is completely ignored by the media. Saturday being a perfect example. When he does what everyone else in the team does, he gets absolutely slaughtered for it. You'd never see this article written about Giroud.

Equally, no-one's talking about how monumentally awful Gotze was tonight. £32M down the drain? Of course not.

There's just so much unnecessary drama with Ozil and I think there's really a personal, unpleasant vendetta behind it all.
 
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