Originally Posted by
selassie
Emery’s issue with Ozil appears to be personal and not performance related. I’m not a “Ozil Fanboy”, far from it, I was calling for him to be dropped in the Wenger days. The thing is, and I say this with a lot of confidence, we are not a better team without Ozil at the moment. This team does lack a fair bit of creativity with the flat midfield line up of Xhaka, Douzi & Torreira. Ceballos who seems to be the preferred Ozil replacement isn’t up to the required standard either. Ceballos is a very good player, that isn’t in question. He does blow hot and cold though, he also doesn’t improve the team anymore so than Ozil IMO and we have him on loan too.
Ozil’s performances this season have been pretty decent TBH, it seems silly to discard him when we have much bigger issues in the team!